Page 9 - Bigotry: The Dark Danger

Contents

PREFACE .................................................................................................14
The Misunderstood Islam ....................................................................14

CHAPTER 1 .............................................................................................18
The Two Basic Concepts Misused by Those Who Portray Islam
as a Violent Faith: Sharia and Jihad ..............................................................18

Islam: The Religion of Ease .......................................................................24
The True Sharia in the Qur'an ...................................................................26
What Does the True Qur'anic Sharia Bring to A Country?..................29
The True Jihad in the Qur'an .....................................................................33
An Examination of Verse 95 of Surat an-Nisa' ................................................34
An Examination of Verse 52 of Surat al-Furqan..............................................36
What Is Misunderstood about War in Islam ..............................................38
A Muslim Has a Responsibility to Believe in Every Verse
of the Qur'an, Without Exception .....................................................................38
The Qur'an Is a "Preserved" Book .....................................................................39
The Mistakes in Differentiating between the "Meccan Period
Muslims" and "Medinan Period Muslims" .............................................41
The Harsh Testing of Muslims in the Meccan Period ...................................41
The Medinan Period and the Battles ................................................................46
Who Were Battles Fought Against? .................................................................48
The Description of War in the Qur'an ....................................................50
Polytheists with Whom Agreements Were Made .................................53
The First Multilateral and Most Democratic Constitution Ever:
The Constitution of Medina................................................................................56
Verses about War and the Interpretation Thereof ................................62
There Is No Justification for War in Islam Except for Self-Defense .82
War to Enforce Conversion to Islam? ..............................................................82
War for Ideological or Ethnic Superiority? .....................................................84
One of the Main Causes of Radicalism:
Tribal Culture..........................................................................................................86
War for the Purpose of Spreading the Rules of Islam to be
Introduced by A Muslim Leader?......................................................................88