Mister Dog, above
I will bite my tongue and withhold expression of my considerable discomfort and anger with your quotation from the Quran in this way, in respect only to the victims in France who will be feeling loss right now.
Your quote is entirely out of context and you have used it foolishly and carelessly. This shows how little people are prepared to read, study, gain knowledge of a topic and then speak in an open forum such as this. The quote in the Quran you mention referred specifically to a peace treaty between the Muslims and the non Muslims in Arabia as it was then. The non Muslims broke the terms of the peace treaty and started to attack the Muslims who had respected the agreement and the terms of this peace agreement. The verses you quote relate to permission that God gave, in those specific circumstances only, to go and attack the non Muslims as a means of self defence only due to the non Muslims objective at that time to eradicate the Muslims. Have you read the whole Quran, or at least the whole chapter of this verse? Islam does not allow for the killing of innocent people in indiscriminate ways and a handful of misguided Muslims seem to believe.
For you to quote this in an entirely out of context way and spread the wrong and loose information about Islam is appalling. Shame on you.
If you are interested to learn of a verse which does not require context, which is a general Ayah, or verse, of the Quran, then read Surah Al Maidah, chapter 5, verse 32. Roughly translated this states;
If you save one single life it is as though you have saved the whole of humanity and if you kill an innocent then it is as though you have killed the whole of humanity.
If you read the Quran properly, there are scores of verses which prohibit killing or harming of people. The Quran states that there is no compulsion in religion. Surah Al Kafirun; this is a chapter of the Quran which states exactly this. No ambiguity, no room for 'interpretation'.
Hi MC. I just wonder if you guys actually read and try to understand your own authority. I know that it is said that the quran can only be interpreted in Arabic, but then 85% of the world don't speak Arabic, and muhammed says it must be in classic Arabic. Even worse.
Also, why don't you guys see the very next verse after 5:32?
5:33 reads:
Sahih International: Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment,
Pickthall: The only reward of those who make war upon Allah and His messenger and strive after corruption in the land will be that they will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land. Such will be their degradation in the world, and in the Hereafter theirs will be an awful doom;
Yusuf Ali: The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter;
So tell me, how does killing one man kill mankind, when the very next verse states you can kill any man if they wage war against Muhammed. Muhammed is dead. The proof is in Medina, yet innocent people are still being killed, including muslims who don't want any part of it. Isis call such muslims hypocrites. See, they have the verses and hadiths to prove it without shying away from the truth of what these books say.
The quran denies every muslim a real relationship with God. With Jesus Christ. Many muslims are seeing this, and my hope is that many more will see it, because this Jesus died for every muslim, and human being. That is proof of His love for you, and more proof that you will live, because He lives. The skeptics are still looking for His dead body, while denying that He walked the earth as well.