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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger
Examination of Verse 13 of Surat at-Tawba:
Will you not fight a people who have bro-
ken their oaths and resolved to expel the
Messenger, and who initiated hostilities
against you in the first place? Is it them
you fear? God has more right to your fear
if you are believers. (Qur'an, 9:13)
This verse is another of those that
show the commandments regarding
fighting in the Qur'an. When a poly-
theistic community that had come to
a truce with Muslims, in other
words, that lived in peace with
them as required under those
agreements, broke the truce and
started attacking, when they tried
to force our Prophet (pbuh) to leave
his own land and go into exile and
when, as the verse explicitly states,
they have initiated hostilities, Mus-
lims had the right to fight back
against them.
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