Is it at all possible that Qur’anic teachings calling for killing non-Muslims (2:190, 4:89, cf. 9:5), striking their necks (47:4) and being ruthless toward them (48:29) create a culture of violence, one in which violence is widely seen as a viable solution to problems to an extent that it is not so seen in other cultural contexts? Or is even asking that question “Islamophobic”? Many would say it is, including people who should know better.
“ATC sends threatening video cleric to jail,” Express Tribune, July 7, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Tuesday rejected the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) request to further remand Maulvi Iftikar Udddin [sic] Mirza – a cleric who threatened Supreme Court judge Qazi Faez Isa in a video – in it custody and sent him on judicial remand to jail.
The FIA had arrested Mirza on June 29 on a complaint of Justice Isa’s wife Sarina Isa who said her husband had received a death threat via the video in which the intimidator – Mirza – could be heard saying: “Isa should be shot publicly.”
“Whoever is caught in embezzlement, whether it be Faez Isa or anyone else, should be executed through a firing squad. Those who indulge in such activities must be hanged and the entire city should be invited to watch it,” Mirza had said in the video….