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30 "War is enjoined you against the infidels, but this is hateful unto you; but God knoweth and ye know not." "Fight, therefore, against them until there be no temptation to delusion and the religion to God's" (Chap. 2). "And when the (sacred) months, wherein ye are not allowed to attack then, shall be passed, kill the associates (of divinity, polytheists and trinitarians) wheresoever ye shall find them and take them prisoners, and besiege them, and lay wait for them in every convenient place" (Chap. 9). "When ye encounter the unbelievers, strike off their heads until ye have made a great slaughter among them" (Chap. 47). "Let them fight for the religion of God, who part with the present life in exchange for that which is to come; for whosoever fighteth for the religion of God, whether he be slain or be victorious, we will surely give him a great reward" (Chap. 4). "Fight against them who profess not the true religion, of those unto whom the scriptures have been delivered (Jews and Christians) until they pay tribute by right of subjection, and they be reduced low" (Chap. 9). "Ye are also forbidden to take to wife free women who are married, except those women whom your right hand shall possess as slaves. This is ord,ined you from God" (Chap. 4.)

The above precepts are a few examples of the diabolic spirit of Islam, with which the whole Koran is saturated. And the most blasphemous side of this is that these words profess to be copied from the "Eternal Word of God," and descended from heaven and from the mouth of the just and merciful God.