Who are you calling white?
By definition a Muslim cannot be at peace with a nonbeliever.
Read the"holy texts" koran, hadiths, and sunnah. They are quite informative.
I have been reading and reading them for over a dozen years now.
Check it out sometime and you may get where some of these guys are coming from.
Its pretty straightforward.....submit, pay the jizya, or die.
I'll play
The most conservative usage (which current jihadists use) of the term Kafir or nonbeliever was used by Ibn Taymiyya and it was in response to two of the most tragic events in Islamic history:
The Christian crusaders (motivated by land, not religion) from the North.
The Mongolians from the East (motivation isn't imporant).
Both shed innocent Arabic (Islamic, Jewish, Christian, etc.) blood in Baghdad and Jerusalem; by the bucket-loads.
Osama Bin Laden, Hizbullah, and other extremist muslims use such rhetoric against the American and Israeli forces in the Middle-East. However, to truly give esteem to their interpretation of "kafir" you must take Ibn Taymiyya completely out of context (which the islamo-terrorists are more than willing to do). If you are to believe in such horrendous usage of a term, then you must also believe that Israel and America are the modern Crusader and Mongol hordes, who are looking to kill anyone in their path for land and prosperity, as it is only then that extremist rhetoric is dignified.
I have been throwing out in threads the term
ahl al-katrib or "People of the Book", but there is more evidence of Islam's toleration toward non-muslims.
dhimmi is also interpreted as "people of the book", but this instance has more focus on the act of protecting the non-muslim, monotheists; Polytheists are hated within Islam.
From the Kuran:
23:49-50 said:
Remember, we gave Moses the Book and sent him many an apostle; and to Jesus, son of Mary, We gave clear evidence of the truth, reinforcing him with divine grace
Let us not forget that the Virgin Mary appears more in the Kuran than the New Testament. Let us not forget that when Muhammad went back to Mecca he took every statue out of the Kaaba and left the ones of Allah, Jesus, and the Virgin Mary.
5:48 said:
To each of you We have given a law and a way and a pattern of life. If God has pleased He could surely have made you one people. But He wished to try and test you by that which He gave you. So try to excel in good deeds. To Him will you all return in the end, when He will tell you how you differed
In Islam, while they may be different religions, and professions of faith, they are in the end the same and will be judged the same; Hell, they even agree that Jesus is going to be coming back on judgement day.
The
jizya or the poll tax non-muslims had to pay to Muslim leadership brings up two things:
1: There were enough non-muslims living side-by-side Muslims to need financing.
2: The Muslim leadership understood why a Christian or a Jew might not want to fight in the army (to spread the Islamic Empire). To me this is a very reforming concept, as other cultures during this time would have conscripted others regardless of religion entitlements.
Can you use less generalizations in the future? The majority of Americans are not perpetuating any white superiority.
I am..
I mean,
Opps.