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SUBSTACK (Cam Higby) - Murder - The Violence of Islam

If you’ve ever had a conversation with a Muslim, about why it seems that one of the most common through lines in their religious texts is that anyone who is not a Muslim should be slaughtered - it’s likely that you’ve been told such verses are taken out of context, or are directed at a specific people based on transgressions against Muslim people.

Qur’an 2:191, 8:12, 9:5, 9:29, 47:4 Sahih Al-Bukhari - Hadith 25, 1399, 6924 Sahih Muslim - Hadith 30, 22 Let’s take one of the most widely cited (and refuted) verses. Widely known as the “sword verse”, it comes from Surah At-Tawbah, Chapter 9. The verse is as follows: “When the Sacred Months have passed, kill the polytheists wherever you find them. And capture them, and besiege them, and lie in wait for them at every ambush.” Qur’an 9:5 The refutation goes something like this: “Muslims had entered into a treaty with the pagans living in Arabia - those pagans broke the treaty. Thus the Qur’an orders battle against them, in retaliation for the broken treaty..” But there comes several problems. The first of which, is that…Open