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ISLAM AND THE NEGATION OF VIOLENCE

In Islam, aggression towards people does not exist and the Holy Koran as an Islamic constitution tells us to act favorably towards all men: “And speak kindly to people,” (Al-Baqarah, 83), and if a few have been mistaken in this respect, it is due to a wrong interpretation of certain verses and religious traditions which has presented the non-Moslems as infidels, while I believe that a non-Moslem is by no means an unbeliever, and an infidel is a non-Moslem who knows Islam to be in the right but, at the same time, chooses to act with enmity towards it.

I have recounted these questions in the presence of some of the Sunni religious scholars and they, too, have accepted this point of view. Today, if we manage to clarify this subject in the world of Islam, even the few seeds of animosity will be banished.

Based on the logic of Islam, all men are respected and worthy except those who knowingly and practically act with vengeance against Islam.

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