Unleashing the Beast

90 / U NLEASHING THE B EAST

if you are true believers (5.57). Notice this Koran passage about the Jews:

The Jews say: Allah's hand is fettered. Their hands are fettered and they are accursed for saying so. Nay, but both His hands are spread out wide in bounty. He bestoweth as He will. That which hath been revealed unto thee from thy Lord is certain to increase the contumacy and disbelief of many of them, and We have cast among them enmity and hatred till the Day of Resurrection. As often as they light a fire for war, Allah extinguisheth it. Their effort is for corruption in the land, and Allah loveth not corrupters (5.064). D OES THE K ORAN S PEAK OF F IGHTING A GAINST N ON -M USLIMS ? These passages from the Koran illustrate the Muslims' desire to fight against non-Muslims: When the sacred months are over slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them (9.5). Fight against such of those to whom the Scriptures were given as believe in neither Allah nor the Last Day, who do not forbid what Allah and his apostle have forbidden,