MUSLIMS OF Sup Forums, I KNOW YOU EXIST AND I'M CALLING TO YOU.
Please read the entire thing before posting ITT, otherwise fuck you.
Whenever I try to have a civil discussion with a Muslim about their religion, it always ends in them saying "go read the Quran" or "you don't know what you're talking about because you haven't read the Quran".
I said fuck it, over 3 months, I've read the entire Holy Quran, translated into Roman English by Sunni Sheiks, educated in Saudi Arabia. I even got the Quran I was reading verified by Muslims at my University.
The Quran, was mostly "Follow Allah, verily he knows what is best (for man), and he is surely most gracious, most merciful". I feel like that exact line was repeated atleast 1000 times.
There was good advice in there, and surprisingly, wise views on what an objectively "good" person is.
HOWEVER, the Quran was not without violence, and controversy.
In Surah At TauBah, in the first few verses, it says to "After the holy months (on the Islamic calendar), make your duty, to kill O' Mushrikin (the sinners and disbelievers), seek them and kill them, unless they repent (turn to Islam)".
Now, the Surah does not specify WHO the disbelievers are, which leads me to believe that it means ALL non Muslims, which begs the question; How do you Muslims justify that? What does it mean?