Islam does preach violence towards non believers, in certain contexts. Islam is not a pacifist religion and doesn’t claim to be. But what’s your point? The US has done a absolutely disgusting things in the name of national security, but no American would say those things represent American values.
Is that legit? If so, that ain't good.
It absolutely is not a straight forward call to aggression. It’s pretty clear you don’t even know how the Quran was revealed, it wasn’t just written over the span of months, it was revealed over a period of 22 years, the verses of the Quran address specific instances/experiences that the Muslim community was faced with at the time of revelation. That’s why context matters. A huge part of Quran interpretation is something called the Tafsir, or exegesis. Studying the context in which each verse was revealed is an entire discipline that people spend years mastering, Quran is quite literally all about context. What you’re doing would be like saying “why do we need the Supreme Court, the law says why it says pretty clearly”. No, context matters in interpreting the law and how it applies to each situation. Same thing is true with the Quran, and the vast majority of Islamic scholars do not interpret those verses in the way you do.
It is a boring old trope but it's true and it applies to all religions.
That’s fine but why should islam be entirely defined by the beliefs of a small minority of extremists? No other group is held to that standard.
It’s true only as far as any set of beliefs (religious or otherwise) can be manipulated to control people. But it’s just a boring atheist shibboleth now, not some kind of profound point.
The Byzantine empire was a threat, there was absolutely nothing wrong with attacking them at Tabuk, particularly in the context of that time and place. It’s rich that westerners who pre-emptively invade Iraq, bomb dozens of countries, overthrow foreign governments are trying to frame a Muslim attack on the Byzantine empire as some huge travesty loooool.
I agree. I'm not going to lie...I don't believe in religion.
They weren’t non threatening lmao, that’s the point, the Byzantine empire was a mortal threat to the nascent Muslim community and that frontier had to be controlled. There was no UN Security Council back then, that’s how you addressed threats to your security. Even today the US is currently bombing and/or occupying at least 8 countries because they don’t want certain areas to be radical safe havens, these are countries that have NEVER attacked the US, it’s hysterical that your interpretation of what a threat is becomes narrow all of a sudden lol.
The fact that the old man survived being stabbed in the neck is itself a miracle, glad he was Rushdie to the hospital.
