(In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful, all praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger)
It has become a norm that one read some content and starts delivering its views without concerning the actual period or the full length of the context in which the particular content was revealed, thus the manipulation and misconceptions give rise to inappropriate beliefs and understandings which affects the integral image of the beholder.
This is true when it comes to religion as the people who read the religious text and fail to understand and identify the reason and the appropriate context in which they were explained to deliver a message they can be easily manipulated and this is true that several Muslims and other non-religious activists have presented the content to their own objectives.
Please read the Quran and understand the entire concept of its structure of Peace, Justice and War in Context of Quran. The irony of time is that what is being presented to the world is what they want to show or make them belief as to the real meaning of the contexts are changed to their sweet will and Islam is made the one to be on the spotlight.
As to the fact is that almost all religions have the tendency to be manipulated or lets’ say even Bible seems to be violent on several occasions and the following quoted text will show you the real side and to the added fact it is right that these terms have been used by many violent Jewish and Christian groups. Crusaders used them against Muslims and Jews. Nazis used them against Jews. Recently Serbian Christians used them against Bosnian Muslims. Zionists are using them regularly against Palestinians.
“When the LORD your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you. And when the LORD your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them. (Deutronomy 7:1-2)
“When you approach a city to fight against it, you shall offer it terms of peace. If it agrees to make peace with you and opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall become your forced labor and shall serve you. However, if it does not make peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it. When the LORD your God gives it into your hand, you shall strike all the men in it with the edge of the sword. Only the women and the children and the animals and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as booty for yourself; and you shall use the spoil of your enemies which the LORD your God has given you… Only in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes (Deuteronomy 20:10-17)
Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man intimately. But all the girls who have not known man intimately, spare for yourselves. (Numbers 31:17-18)
These are some of the very that you will find in Bible, but it does not mean that it is to be declared that Christianity is a terrorist religion, therefore the urge is to read and understand the full context of the content without spotlighting and manipulating the original meaning and time it was revealed.
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