Islam is evil

Pro provided a wrong source for one of your quotes. “Killing unbelievers is a small matter to us” is from Tabari, volume 9, page 69. This is the complete English translation of it:“Arabs were the first to respond to the call of the Prophet. We are Allah’s helpers and the viziers of His Messenger. We fight people until they believe in Allah. He who believes in Allah and His Messenger has protected his life and possessions from us. As for one who disbelieves, we will fight him forever in the Cause of Allah. Killing him is a small matter to us.”Here, the word Jihad has been translated as fight. This itself is wrong already, since Jihad means ‘to strive’. In Islam there are three types of Jihad, which are Jihad Akbar (Greatest Jihad), Jihad Kabeer (Great Jihad) and Jihad asghar. The first two types are Jihad against one’s own sinful inclinations (Jihad Akbar) and peaceful propagation of Islam (Jihad Kabeer). Defensive war is the small Jihad. So by no means, Jihad means fight. And again, the last part refers to ‘killing’. This is again a bad translation, since the word used means ‘defeat’. Therefore, the meaning of this explanation is that Muhammad says to propagate Islam (by means of Jihad which I just described) and that defeating the enemy is a small matter. (1)Then you refer to Quran 2:282 which supposedly means that a woman’s testimony is worth half of that of a man. This is the translation:“and if there are not two men, then a man and two women, such as ye choose, for witnesses, so that if one of them errs, the other can remind her.” (Yusuf Ali)The important part is that if one errs, the other can remind her. One woman is the one that testifies and the second woman is to assist her. Which means that the testimony of the woman is equal to that of a man and the second woman is a mere assistant, who is to help if needed. (2)Then you say that there are many examples of scholars who discuss these issues. It is not the scholars you need to look at, but the Quran itself. The Quran does not teach violence. Some scholars mention abrogation of verses. This causes contradiction, namely that it is stated in the Quran 2:3 “This is a perfect book”. How can a perfect book contain contradictions? Coindicenally it is always the peaceful verses that are abrogated according to these 'scholars'. This furthermore points towards their evil intentions. Why not abrogate the evil verses instead? The truth is, there is no abrogation, since as I said the Quran itself claims that it is perfect. So according to Islamic belief there can be no abrogation of any verses. All verses are supplementing each other. The peaceful verses laying down the conditions of Islamic (defensive) war always supplement any ‘holy war’ (which of often even a spiritual one) mentioned in the Quran.Then you mention the behavior of Muslim nations. You fail to recognize the difference between religion and politics. As I have stated in previous rounds, the Islam propagates secularism. These governments are already going against the Islamic principle of equality. Furthermore, their national and international policies contradict the Quran in so many ways it is impossible for me to list those. That is why these governments are not truly Islamic because of their policies, but because the inhabitants are mainly Muslims.The hate against Jews and against Israel is also not based on Islamic principles. Islam promotes tolerance and peace as I have argued by showing you verses from the Quran. The intolerance of Muslim countries against Israel is therefore purely political, not Islamic.You also claim that Israel has contributed more to society than Islam ever has. I am not sure if you realize how much early Arab (Muslim) scholars have contributed to current science. If there were nobel prizes since 800 AD, the rest of the world would still be catching up to the amount of Arabs that would have won Nobel prizes. The pinhole camera, camera obscura, was invented by an Arab: Ibn al Haytham (Alhazen). This forms the basic of all cameras we use nowadays. The crankshaft and camshaft used in cars were invented by an Arab: Al-Jazari. The numerals we use in the west are from the Hindu-Arabic numeral system (the Indians only contributed the ‘0’ the other digits are based on Arabic digts). Algebra (al-jabr) was invented by an Arab: al-Khwarizmi. Modern medicine is based on Arabic practice of medicine during the European Middle Ages. (3)Without these Arabic scholars, there would be no cameras, no cars, roman numerals (imagine writing 1000000 in roman numerals), no modern mathematics, no modern physics (all based on algebra) and medicine would lag behind by centuries. You claim Muslims have not contributed at all? Without Muslims there would be no developed Western society. It is all based on the work of Arab, Muslim scholars.That is why it is even sadder to see that the Arabs not only did stop in their development, but completely fell back. Education is the lowest worldwide in Islamic countries. This is all due to failing politics and corrupt leaders, who not only deprive the inhabitants from basic needs (food, water, electricity, education) but also corrupt their religion to meet their twisted needs and desires. It is the politics that is failing, not the religion.My final point regarding what you have said is about Taqiyyah. Even suggesting this teaching (that Muslims are purposely deceiving non-believers) exists causes so many contradictions with the Quran, that there is no possibility that it is true. In the verses of al-Baqarah 2:3-23 it describes the characteristics of the believers, disbelievers and hypocrites. The hypocrites get the worst punishment of all, even worse than disbelievers. There are also many other verses in the Quran that mention truthfulness as a good quality and mention that hypocrisy will be punished severely. Why would a Muslim become a hypocrite by practicing this deception and subject incur such a great punishment on himself? No sane Muslim would even consider it. Therefore, Taqiyyah is another lie forged against Islam. (4)ConclusionIn the previous rounds I have sufficiently provided evidence from the highest authority in the Islam, namely the Quran, that Islam is a peaceful and tolerant religion. Any allegations provided by Pro against Islam have been found to be completely baseless. I am disappointed that Pro did not invest more time in coming up with proper arguments, but had a great experience nonetheless. The research that I needed to do myself about these issues has been very educational for me.References1. https://www.alislam.org...2. http://www.alislam.org...3. http://www.elsevier.nl... (article in Dutch)4. https://www.alislam.org...