This is taken from Quran 5:32:
and whoever saves a life, it will be as if they saved all of humanity.
This partial quote from the Quran is trotted out when one wants to convince people Islam is a religion of peace. The problem is, the verse from which is taken and the following one are threats of Islamic violence, mainly aimed at Jews.
That is why We ordained for the Children of Israel that whoever takes a life—unless as a punishment for murder or mischief in the land—it will be as if they killed all of humanity; and whoever saves a life, it will be as if they saved all of humanity.1 ˹Although˺ Our messengers already came to them with clear proofs, many of them still transgressed afterwards through the land.
Quran 5:32
Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and spread mischief in the land is death, crucifixion, cutting off their hands and feet on opposite sides, or exile from the land. This ˹penalty˺ is a disgrace for them in this world, and they will suffer a tremendous punishment in the Hereafter.
Quran 5:33
The upshot of these two verses is the following:
- Children of Israel – Jews – a threat to Jews.
- Mischief in the land = proselytising a religion other than Islam, trying to convert Muslims, or generally committing blasphemy. This is apartheid Islam. You can see it in action regularly where Christians are persecuted, falsely accused – see the case of Asia Bibi, one of many.
- Wage war against Allah does not mean just attacking Muslims, it also means resisting Muslims when they invade and colinise your land – as happened to Jews in Jewish Palestine (Israel/Juda).
- Other interpretations include phrases such as “strike them about their necks” – beheading.
Another verse
Kill them wherever you come upon them1 and drive them out of the places from which they have driven you out. For persecution2 is far worse than killing. And do not fight them at the Sacred Mosque unless they attack you there. If they do so, then fight them—that is the reward of the disbelievers.
Quran 2:191
Islam started in Mecca, moved with Mohhamed to Medina. Everywhere there’s Islam outside Medina where Muslims invaded and colonised by the sword, consider the context: on the return to Mecca, and any place else they conquer, if the conquered resists your invasion, kill them. And of course, after killing the men, take the women as sex slaves.
Islam is an explicitly violent religion. And these verses and many others are deemed the explicit word of Aallah, valid for all time.
Not all Muslims follow through on these threats, but too many take it upon themselves as a duty – hence the many terrorist attacks we see around the world.
However, try to get ANY decent Muslim to actually renounce these verses – their biggets worry will be being deemed an apostate by other Muslims and therefore subject to death for apostasy.
When Richard Dawkins tried to get a Muslim hijabi to tell the truth about death for apostasy she did all the squirming you’d expect of someone that didn’t want to admit or reject it … but when the question was put to a religious leader, he confirmed it without batting an eye.
As do many of the prominent Muslims in the UK that like to turn up at Hyde Park’s Speakers Corner or on TV interviews.
Ramblings 