Debate: Is Islam a religion of violence or a religion of peace?
Side: peace

Joel"A fire devoureth before them ... nothing shall escape."On "the day of the Lord", everything and everyone will be burned to death. 2:3"The people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness." 2:6People will try to commit suicide but will not be able to. 2:8"Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into spears." 3:10"Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness." 3:19AmosThe divine pyromaniac threatens to "send fire unto" Hazael, Gaza, Tyrus, Teman, Rabbah, Moab, and Judah. 1:4, 7, 10, 12, 14; 2:2, 5"I will ... cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven ... and the people of Syria shall go into captivity." 1:5"I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD." 1:8God will "slay all the princes" of Moab.2:3God destroyed the Amorites who were a race of giants as tall as cedars and as strong as oaks. 2:9God's creative ways of kiilling people and breaking things. 3:12-15God afflicted the Israelites with "cleanness of teeth" (famine,) drought, blasting, and mildew. He killed them with pestilence, slaughtered them with the sword, and "made the stink of their camps come up into their noses." Destroyed them like they were from Sodom and Gomorrah. And yet they still didn't return to him. What is wrong with people? 4:6-11"Therefore thus will I do unto thee .... Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel." 4:12"For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten." 5:3"Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it." 5:6When there is wailing and mourning, you'll know God's been there. 5:16-17God says, "If there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die." 6:9"The LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts." (God will destroy people's houses.) 6:11Next God sends a fire that consumes both land and sea. 7:4God will kill the house of Jeroboam with the sword. 7:9-11Amos tells Amaziah that his wife will become a whore, his children will be killed, and he'll die in a pagan country. 7:17"The songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place." 8:3God will kill so many people that dead bodies will lay everywhere. 8:3"I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day." 8:10"In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst." 8:13They shall fall, and never rise up again." 8:14God will "cut them in the head" and "slay the last of them with the sword." Any that try to escape by diving to the bottom of the sea will be bitten, at God's command, by a sea-serpent. God will set his "eyes upon them for evil, not for good." 9:1-4God will melt the land with his touch and then drown it in a flood. 9:5God will destroy the "the sinful kingdom" and "all the sinners" among his people. 9:8-10ObadiahThe Israelites hear "a rumor from the Lord" telling them to start a war with the Edomites. 1, 8God tells Israelites to "destroy the wise men out of Edom" and to slaughter "everyone of the mount of Esau." 8-9God will burn all the heathen to death, "for the LORD hath spoken it." 16-18MicahGod will destroy Samaria with stones. 1:6God accuses the Israelite leaders of plucking off skin, flesh from bones, eating human flesh, flaying off skin, breaking bones, chopping bodies in pieces, making human stew. To punish them he will ignore them when they call on him. 3:1-4God will strengthen the Israelites so they can "beat in pieces many peoples" and give the booty to God. 4:13"They shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword." 5:6Like a young lion "the remnant of Jacob" will tear the Gentiles to pieces. 5:8"Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off." 5:9"I will cut off thy horses." 5:10God will "cut off" the witches and soothsayers. 5:11-12God will destroy entire cities, and "execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen such as they have not heard." 5:14-15God will make his people sick, hungry, and desolate. Those who survive he will "give up to the sword." 6:13-16The Gentiles will be made deaf, shall lick dust and be forced to crawl like worms from fear of God and his people. 7:16-17NahumGod doesn't just get even. He drowns or burns to death his enemies. 1:8-10"Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots." 2:13"There is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcasses; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses." Now that's a lot of dead people. 3:3God punished Nineveh by enslaving the people and smashing the little children in the streets. 3:10God says that "the fire shall devour thee, the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm." 3:15 a little from the middle