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Originally Posted by sob
I'm having trouble following your line of reasoning for singling out these other groups. I'd appreciate it if you'd let me know why that would be equally appropriate.
Especially after reading the following:
“They desire that you should disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so that you might be (all) alike; therefore take not from among them friends until they fly in Allah’s way; but if they turn back, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them, and take not from among them a friend or a helper … Then when the Sacred Months have passed, then kill the Mushrikűn (Jews) wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege them, and prepare for them each and every ambush.” (Sura IV.89)
“Kill those who join other gods with God wherever you may find them.” (Sura IX. 5-6)
"Fight and slay the Pagans, seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem" (Koran 9:5)
"Murder them and treat them harshly" (Koran 9:123)
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Hooray! Quotes from a religious text, taken out of context, as evidence that the religion itself is violent. I love you. The Old Testament is, of course, completely empty of this sort of thing.
Flipping to a random page in Deuteronomy...
"Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree." (Deuteronomy 12:2)