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you will see that although it does talk about peace between religions, it frequently extols Muslims to fight non-believers, apostates and hypocrites (moderate Muslims). It repeatedly advocates taking revenge, freeman for freeman, slave for slave and woman for woman (so if I kill your wife, you should kill my wife, not me). It even goes so far as to advocate wife beating (IV 34 chapter in Roman numerals and verse in Arabic numbers)! In IV 78 it talks about people who refuse to fight when Allah wants them to not being able to find safety even in a tall tower, which sounds like a justification for 9/11 to me. There's the notorious claim that those who die fighting the infidel will spend the afterlife with 72 virgins and one passage seems to talk about giving martyrs a taste of paradise before suicide missions. Therefore, as long as Islam exists, there will always be some Muslims who will take the Koran's violent teachings literally and see themselves as Allah's warriors. Perhaps it's hardly surprising that Palestinians give their children suicide bomber trading cards!

To the Muslim mind, the Jews were God's chosen people but they screwed up so God chose the Christians instead and they screwed up so the Muslims are now the chosen people. Israel was a thing of the past and they are horrified at its restoration. It's hardly surprising that the Arabs attacked Israel as soon as the UN gave it statehood and many Muslim groups still don't accept Israel's right to exist.

Those who claim that Islam is a peaceful religion, back up this up by quoting part of V 32 of the Koran. This, in it's entirety reads: "On that account: We ordained for the Children of Israel that if any one slew a person - unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land - it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people. Then although there came to them Our apostles with clear signs, yet, even after that, many of them continued to commit excesses in the land" (for some reasons English translations of the Koran always seem to be trying to imitate the language of the King James Bible). The very next verse reads: "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment

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