Islam is peaceful

The top Imams have disagreed with what Osama bin Laden is saying, also Osama bin Laden was not a shiekh, because if he was, he would know what these verses are saying. T Qur'an 9:73: "O prophet! Strive hard against the disbelievers and the hypocrites, and be harsh against them. Their abode is hell, and an evil destination it is." Okay, now we are talking! You use verses to protect your claim. Unfortunately, you have not given any commentary on these verses, and you do not understand these verses. It is like I pick a concept in a math book, but don"t understand it and attempt to use it. The verse after this says, [9:74]"They swear by Allah that they did not say [anything against the Prophet] while they had said the word of disbelief and disbelieved after their [pretense of] Islam and planned that which they were not to attain. And they were not resentful except [for the fact] that Allah and His Messenger had enriched them of His bounty. So if they repent, it is better for them; but if they turn away, Allah will punish them with a painful punishment in this world and the Hereafter. And there will not be for them on earth any protector or helper." We can see from this verse that if they repent then they will be forgiven. [9:73] O Prophet!81 Strive against the unbelievers and the hypocrites, and be severe to them.82 Hell shall be their abode; what an evil destination! This verse is directed to the Prophet Muhammad, who, as history states and provides evidence for, never started a war. This command enunciated the change of policy towards the hypocrites. Up to this time, leniency was being shown to them for two reasons. First, the Muslims had not as yet become so powerful as to take the risk of an internal conflict in addition to the one with the external enemies. The other reason was to give enough respite to those people who were involved in doubts and suspicions so that they could get sufficient time for attaining to faith and belief. But now the time had come for a change of policy. The whole of Arabia had been subdued and a bitter conflict with the external enemies was about to start; therefore it was required that these internal enemies should be crushed down so that they should not be able to conspire with the external enemies to stir up any internal danger to the Muslims. And now it had become possible to crush them. As regards to the second reason, these hypocrites had been given respite for a period of nine years to observe, to consider and test the right way, and they could have availed of it, if they had any good in them. So there was no reason why any more leniency should be shown to them. Therefore, Allah enjoined the Muslims to treat the hypocrites on one and the same level with the disbelievers and start Jihad against them, and to give up the policy of leniency they had adopted towards them and adopt a fine and stern policy instead. In this connection, it should also be noted that this verse does not enjoin the Muslims to fight with the hypocrites. It merely meant to end the policy of leniency that had hitherto been adopted towards them. This verse enjoined that they were no more to be considered a part and parcel of the Muslim community, nor were they to be allowed to take part in the management of its affairs, nor consulted about any matter, so that they might not be able to spread the poison of hypocrisy. This changed policy required that the true believers should expose all those, who adopted a hypocritical attitude and conduct and showed in any way that they were not sincere allies to Allah, His Messenger (peace be upon him) and the true Muslims. In short, every Muslim should show by his behavior to such a one that there was no place of honor or respect or trust for a hypocrite in the Muslim society. Besides this, if any one of them was found to be guilty of treachery, there should be no connivance at his crime, nor should he be pardoned but openly tried in a court of law and should be duly punished. This command was urgently needed at the time it came. Hypocrisy is a plague and a hypocrite is the rat that carries and spreads its germs. Therefore to allow him the freedom of movement in the society is to expose the whole population to the danger of hypocrisy. Likewise, to give a place of honor and prestige to a hypocrite is to encourage many others in hypocrisy and treachery, for this shows that it is not sincerity, true faith, and its welfare that count in it. One may flourish and prosper in it even if one verbally professes to be a Muslim and at the same time indulges in dishonesty and treachery. The Prophet (peace be upon him) has expressed the same thing in a pithy saying. He said, "Whoso honors and respects the inventor of new practices which are un-Islamic, indeed helps to demolish the very structure of Islam." Qur'an 5:51: "O you who believe! Take not the Jews and Christians for your friends and protectors: they are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. Verily Allah guides not a people unjust." You cannot just cherry pick these verses. You have to understand when and for what reason they were revealed. There is no problem with Muslims being friends with non-Muslims. This is established by the words of Allah Most High Himself when He says: "Allah does not forbid you from showing kindness and dealing justly with those who have not fought you due to your faith or driven you out of your homes." Allah loves those who deal justly." Allah only forbids you from those people that fought you because of your faith, drove you out of your homes and helped in your expulsion, that you take them as intimate associates." And whosoever takes them as intimate associates, then it is they who are the wrongdoers." [al-Quran, 60:8-9] This should set the tone for how we see verse 5:51, which has often been misused to claim that Islam orders Muslims not to have any sort of good relations with non-Muslims at all, an interpretation which is refuted by the above." The verse in question contains the Arabic word Wali, the mistranslation of which to mean "friend" without any further qualification or nuance, is what has caused confusion here. Qur'an 8:39: "And fight them until there"s no fitnah (polytheism) and religion is wholly for Allah." The way you are interpreting this is that Muslim should fight non-stop unless these two conditions are met, but almost all Muslims understand this verse to mean that they can fight to end oppression as well as to establish conditions where they can freely worship God. This is further explained by Hadith where it says that if you see evil, stop it by hand; if you cannot stop it by hand, stop it by your tongue; and if you cannot do that either, then consider that to be evil in your heart. And if you go back to verse 8:34 where kuffar"are warned to"stop preventing Muslims from performing pilgrimage, the latter part of the verse "and religion is for Allah alone," makes perfect sense_ the idea being that in al-Masjid al-Haram only God is to be worshipped [the idea being explicitly stated in verse 2:191 which sets the stage for verse 2:193, which is identical to verse 8:39]. Next time cite your sources, and at least understand the basics of these verses, which the Prophet Muhammad has made clear on what they mean. Prophet Muhammad was not a violent person, because he never killed unless war was raised upon him. Cite at least one raid recorded in history, please do not be so general. Do you know what the Makkans did to the early Muslims? The Makkans beat, tutored, killed, boycotted, and kicked out all the Muslims before all what you say about raids happened. Come on, learn your history facts. The Jews did not only break the treaty, they made a war against the Muslims. This is why so many were killed.