Robert Spencer : What could possibly go wrong? Well, let’s see:
“Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah and your enemies…” (8:60)
“When your Lord was revealing to the angels, ‘I am with you; so confirm the believers. I shall cast terror into the hearts of the unbelievers; so strike the necks, and strike every finger of them!” (Qur’an 8:12)
“We will cast terror into the hearts of those who
disbelieve for what they have associated with Allah of which He had not
sent down authority. And their refuge will be the Fire, and wretched is
the residence of the wrongdoers.” (Qur’an 3:151)
“And kill them wherever you find them, and drive
them out from where they drove you out; persecution is worse than
slaughter. But fight them not by the Holy Mosque until they should fight
you there; then, if they fight you, kill them — such
is the recompense of unbelievers, but if they give over, surely Allah is
all-forgiving, all-compassionate. Fight them until there is no
persecution and the religion is Allah’s; then if they give over, there
shall be no enmity save for evildoers.” (Qur’an 2:191-193)
“They wish that you should disbelieve as they disbelieve, and then
you would be equal; therefore do not take friends from among them, until
they emigrate in the way of Allah; then, if they turn their backs,
seize them and kill them wherever you find them; do not take for yourselves any one of them as friend or helper.” (Qur’an 4:89)
“This is the recompense of those who fight against Allah and His Messenger, and hasten about the earth to do corruption there: they shall be killed, or crucified, or their hands and feet shall be struck off on opposite sides;
or they shall be exiled from the land. That is a degradation for them
in this world; and in the world to come awaits them a mighty
chastisement.” (Qur’an 5:33)
“Fight them, till there is no persecution and
religion is all for Allah; then if they give over, surely Allah sees the
things they do.” (Qur’an 8:39)
“Then, when the sacred months are over, kill the idolaters
wherever you find them, and take them, and confine them, and lie in
wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they repent, and perform
the prayer, and pay the alms, then let them go their way; Allah is
All-forgiving, All-compassionate.” (Qur’an 9:5)
“Fight those who believe not in Allah and the Last
Day and do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, and
do not practice the religion of truth, even if they are of the People of
the Book — until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel
themselves subdued.” (Qur’an 9:29)
“Allah has bought from the believers their selves and their
possessions against the gift of Paradise; they fight in the way of
Allah; they kill, and are killed; that is a promise
binding upon Allah in the Torah, and the Gospel, and the Koran; and who
fulfils his covenant truer than Allah? So rejoice in the bargain you
have made with Him; that is the mighty triumph.” (Qur’an 9:111)
“O believers, fight the unbelievers who are near to you; and let them find in you a harshness; and know that Allah is with the godfearing.” (Qur’an 9:123)
“When you meet the unbelievers, strike their necks,
then, when you have made wide slaughter among them, tie fast the bonds;
then set them free, either by grace or ransom, till the war lays down
its loads. So it shall be; and if Allah had willed, He would have
avenged Himself upon them; but that He may try some of you by means of
others. And those who are slain in the way of Allah, He will not send
their works astray.” (Qur’an 47:4)
