Kawa Mawlayee

So when you look at violence in Islam and in the Quran,

there are parameters around that violence.

And most of it is in self-defense.

A lot of people will quote like chapter two verses 190 or 191, right?

It says, slay all non-believers.

Mm-hmm.

But they don't put the rest of that in there and they certainly didn't start at 190 and they certainly didn't go all the way to 193 because when you read all four of those chapters or those verses, it says that you can only kill people when they are killing you first.

And then even then, when you gain that superiority over them in this conflict, you have to offer a treaty.

As the Muslim, once you gain the edge of the battle, you have to say, look, you're outnumbered now or we're winning now.

We're offering you a treaty.

And if they turn your treaty down and they continue to attack you, then, of course, you can continue to slay these nonbelievers.

Mm-hmm.

And it wasn't Christians that were attacking Muslims in the beginning, it was pagans.

So this isn't even directed at Christians, it's directed at paganistic Arabs of all people.

Not Europeans, not blonde hair, blue eye people.

These were given to Prophet Muhammad to say, whoever from your bloodline or whoever from your tribe is attacking you, whoever from your region is attacking you, that is who this applies to.

Well, I mean, as time goes on, it applies to more and more people, right?

So, but it's that.

So people just, you know, I just say that, just go into the Quran, look at that verse up, but then read the surrounding verses.

And if you still have a problem with it, great.