Today’s concluding installment for Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month brings us the one place in the Qur’an where Muslims are directed explicitly to make war against and subjugate Jews and Christians — the “People of the Book”: Fight those who believe not in God nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden […]
Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month: “Slay the idolaters wherever you find them”
Today’s installment brings the Qur’an’s quintessential violent passage: Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, […]
Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month: “Prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may terrify the enemy of Allah”
Both hatred and violence in today’s installment: Indeed, the worst of living creatures in the sight of Allah are those who have disbelieved, and they will not [ever] believe — the ones with whom you made a treaty but then they break their pledge every time, and they do not fear Allah. So if you, […]
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 […]
Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month: “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved, so strike [them] upon the necks”
Today is Beheading Day in Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month: [Remember] when your Lord inspired to the angels, “I am with you, so strengthen those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved, so strike [them] upon the necks and strike from them every fingertip.” (Qur’an […]
Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month: Unbelievers are “like livestock”
Today’s Qur’an passage brings us the revolting idea that the supreme being created people solely in order to torture them for all eternity: And We have certainly created for Hell many of the jinn and mankind. They have hearts with which they do not understand, they have eyes with which they do not see, and […]
Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month: “Who is more unjust than one who invents about Allah a lie or denies His verses?”
In my country it is customary for people to celebrate this day of Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month by exchanging gifts, having a big Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness dinner, and spending the day with loved ones. I am not sure where or how this quaint and intriguing custom originated, […]
Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month: “You will surely find the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers [to be] the Jews”
Still more Jew-hatred: they “misled many,” they have “strayed,” they are cursed by David and Jesus, Allah is angry with them, and they’re the worst enemies of the Muslims: Say, “O People of the Scripture, do not exceed limits in your religion beyond the truth and do not follow the inclinations of a people who […]
Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month: “And the Jews say, ‘The hand of Allah is chained’…cursed are they for what they say.”
Today brings still more Qur’anic antisemitism: And the Jews say, “The hand of Allah is chained.” Chained are their hands, and cursed are they for what they say. Rather, both His hands are extended; He spends however He wills. And that which has been revealed to you from your Lord will surely increase many of […]
Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month: “Those whom Allah has cursed and with whom He became angry and made of them apes and pigs”
Today’s installment brings more dehumanization of Jews: Say, “O People of the Scripture, do you resent us except [for the fact] that we have believed in Allah and what was revealed to us and what was revealed before and because most of you are defiantly disobedient?” Say, “Shall I inform you of [what is] worse […]
Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month: “Do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies”
The last couple of highlighted passages featured violence. Now we’re back to hate: O you who have believed, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies. They are [in fact] allies of one another. And whoever is an ally to them among you – then indeed, he is [one] of them. Indeed, Allah […]
Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month: “The thief, the male and the female, amputate their hands”
Today’s installment: more savage punishments: [As for] the thief, the male and the female, amputate their hands in recompense for what they committed as a deterrent [punishment] from Allah . And Allah is Exalted in Might and Wise. (Qur’an 5:38) Said Muhammad: “Let there be the curse of Allah upon the thief who steals an […]
Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month: “The penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger…is none but that they be killed or crucified…”
In today’s installment, a prescription for punishments of unspeakable violence, following right after the Qur’anic verse most often quoted by Presidents and other non-Muslims who want to praise Islam: Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land […]
Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month: “We cursed them for their breaking of the covenant”
Still more Jew-hatred in today’s installment: The People of the Scripture ask you to bring down to them a book from the heaven. But they had asked of Moses [even] greater than that and said, “Show us Allah outright,” so the thunderbolt struck them for their wrongdoing. Then they took the calf [for worship] after […]
Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month: “And do not weaken in pursuit of the enemy”
More violence against unbelievers: And do not weaken in pursuit of the enemy. If you should be suffering – so are they suffering as you are suffering, but you expect from Allah that which they expect not. And Allah is ever Knowing and Wise. (Qur’an 4:104) And do not weaken in pursuit of the enemy. […]
Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month: “Seize them and kill them wherever you find them”
Today’s hatred and violence in the Qur’an concerns the death penalty for apostasy: They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah . But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever […]
Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month: “Fight against the allies of Satan”
As Hamas-linked CAIR launches its deceptive campaign to try to convince people that “jihad” is all about romping through the daisies and giving lollipops to kids, we come to a passage of the Qur’an which is clearly about warfare against unbelievers, who are the “allies of Satan”: O you who have believed, take your precaution […]
Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month: “Those are the ones whom Allah has cursed; and he whom Allah curses – never will you find for him a helper”
More Jew-hatred: Have you not seen those who were given a portion of the Scripture, purchasing error [in exchange for it] and wishing you would lose the way? And Allah is most knowing of your enemies; and sufficient is Allah as an ally, and sufficient is Allah as a helper. Among the Jews are those […]
Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month: “Righteous women are therefore obedient…and those you fear may be rebellious…beat them”
The infamous wife-beating verse: Men are the managers of the affairs of women for that God has preferred in bounty one of them over another, and for that they have expended of their property. Righteous women are therefore obedient, guarding the secret for God’s guarding. And those you fear may be rebellious admonish; banish them […]
Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month: “Forbidden to you are…wedded women, save what your right hands own”
More sex slavery in today’s installment: Forbidden to you are your mothers and daughters, your sisters, your aunts paternal and maternal, your brother’s daughters, your sister’s daughters, your mothers who have given suck to you, your suckling sisters, your wives’ mothers, your stepdaughters who are in your care being born of your wives you have […]