Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month: “Fight them until there is no fitnah and the religion, all of it, is for Allah”

Today’s Qur’an reading prescribes violence until the world is Islamized: And fight them until there is no fitnah and [until] the religion, all of it, is for Allah. And if they cease – then indeed, Allah is Seeing of what they do. (Qur’an 8:39) Fitnah is disturbance, upheaval, disorder, chaos. According to numerous early Muslim … Continue reading Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month: “Fight them until there is no fitnah and the religion, all of it, is for Allah”