Islam Is A religion of Peace

As the Starter of this Debate, I would Like all participants to not serve up halfbaked verses and Ideas. No abusive Language Respect for the Opponent and please please Use certified sources of Sunni Islam as Sunni is the majority sect of Islam, and thus my decision to stick with their sources. Now for the debate: Many people around me have recently been telling me that islam is not the religion of peace,but my thinking has been something completely different from that. To spread my views and find a healthy debate, I came to this site. The User I have challenged was selected from a debate with Mujtaba who failed to defend his views against DeltaMed. As it seems delta had a great debate,but his view of Quran as literal words is wrong. The Quran is a book of god whose meaning should be taken with Tafsir, Asbab-e Nazool and the wordings i.e the Context of the verses, the reasons of revelation and the Arabic grammar and it's different rules of deriving words meanings. For example the meaning of 'Al-Hamdu' and 'Al-Hmdu' are different (opposite) although in the Arabic sense of way,only a small letter changed. For example See and Sea are two different words with two different meanings. Some Verses given by the debater in the above mentioned debate were either given half or were not given with their reasons and time of revelation. There was a verse revealed in battle that was to boost muslim moral but some miscreants due to the lack of their understanding and knowledge of islam use them generally on the muslims today while it was meant for the specific battle only. For example ,Warfare is ordained for you, though it is hateful unto you; but it may happen that ye hate a thing which is good for you, and it may happen that ye love a thing which is bad for you. Allah knoweth, ye know not. - Quran 2:216, is stated as the proof of islam being violent. WELL NO. Warfare is not the word used, Jihad is. And Jihad is of many types i.e The lesser and bigger Jihad. The lesser Jihad is the warfare for the sake of allah while the bigger jihad is of the constant struggle against one's internal self. many other forms of jihad are also present like giving alms to the poor, living according to Sunnah, gaining knowledge as Islam commands (that would mean if you wake up in the morning for going to school, it would also be a part of your Jihad for gaining Knowledge). now come to the part where I stop defending and give out my points for supporting the idea. First of all, Islam never legalized the killings of innocent people. To the best of my understanding, all of the verses that speak of killing kaafirs are in a context of warfare--in this particular case, a war that the unbelievers started. The usual course of action when dealing with an unbeliever would be, so long as that unbeliever did not threaten to attack or attack Muslims, the Muslims would not attack the unbeliever: so long as the unbeliever did not berate Muslims, the Muslims would not berate unbelievers. islam says do not fight against non believers unless they turn you out of your homes and force convert you on your religion. Allah does not forbid you as regards those who did not fight you on account of faith, and did not expel you from your homes, that you do good to them, and deal justly with them. Surely Allah loves those who maintain justice. (8) Allah forbids you only about those who fought you on account of faith, and expelled you from your homes, and helped (others) in expelling you, that you have friendship with them. Those who develop friendship with them are the wrongdoers. (Surah 60) the forbidance is of friendship in these verses. Now I would like the opponent to write a short and precise answer with all the context, Reasons of revelation and proper meanings of the words of any verses he gives. He may differ from my verses and give reasons for his different views. Please refrain from using half verses. It would be same to say ' A man was shot by a gaurd' and not saying that ' the man was a thief running away'. this way the gaurd looks guilty. As I said before and is my stance, Think of Islam and ISIS like this. The doctor gave the patient a prescription but the patient did not follow it, causing his death or more illness. Due to this the doctor is blamed by a certain group of people due to their lack of knowledge and lack of their capacity for understanding. Rather it is the patient at fault.