I tried to stay quite and hoped that if I closed my eyes long enough, this whole "Ground-Zero Mosque" controversy would blow over. It hasn't. In fact, all the fuss and controversy over this "mosque" has risen to such ridiculous and offensive levels that I can no longer endure this breed of Islamaphobia gone wild.
First of all, everyone, especially the media and journalists who repeat the description, must stop calling and referring to this building as the "Ground Zero Mosque." There is no Ground Zero Mosque! As Keith Olbermann very eloquently and passionately articulated on his show the other night, a mosque is "a place built for the purpose of gathering for prayer and worship in Islam," whereas the building that is going to be built near (not on) Ground Zero is an Islamic Community Center called, "Park 51," no longer to be called "Cordoba House" for fear of triggering even more misunderstood controversy.
The Building Where The Park 51 Community Center Will Be. The Imam of the Center Describes the New Name as Perfect For New York. Image Credit: Wikipedia
This Community Center plans to house a culinary school, an auditorium, a swimming pool, a basketball court, and yes, space for prayer. But it is not a mosque, so we all need to stop calling it that. Calling this Center the "Ground Zero Mosque" not only makes people think up dramatic images of an actual mosque right on the site of Ground Zero, but it also misconstrues the entire debate.
With an emotional and racially charged debate such as this, it is critical we keep our facts straight and that starts with the words we choose. It starts with our language. Anyone that begins their debate or discussion by calling this Islamic Community Center a mosque must immediately be discredited because they do not know what they are talking about.
Aside from having had enough of Glen Beck declaring a "war with Islam," and Tea Partying protesters holding up signs that say ludicrous things like, "You can build a mosque on Ground Zero when we can build a synagogue in Mecca," or "Building a mosque on Ground Zero is like building a Nazi memorial next to a Holocaust Museum," my tipping point came when I read this article from The Daily Beast entitled, "Ground Zero Mosque Hurts Islam."
In this article, or work of fiction I should say, complete with a media gallery of "America's Top 30 Most Muslim Cities" to ensure you remain scared to death of Muslims, the author Douglas Murray describes himself as "pretty much color blind and religion blind." But his entire article is about how Muslims are whiny, double-standard, hypocritical and violent people who want what they want where and when they want it, even if it means "destroying the landscape of Switzerland," or "stepping on people's emotional wounds" by demanding this mosque on Ground Zero. He even goes so far as to chide Muslims (cause we're all one and the same!) as children who do not know "how to behave."
As if all this was not offensive enough, Murray goes on to state:
Islam itself is screwed. For all leading Islamic scholars the whole world belongs to Islam. Non-Muslims don’t have a say in it.
I don't know what Murray is smoking, but after reading the first line of that quote I had had enough. The level of racist and ignorant banter this Islamic Center debate has stirred up has reached such intolerable levels that a blog as respected as The Daily Beast would run a piece as factually incorrect as this, (though they did make up for it in my opinion by running this brilliant post).
While it is great that Keith Olbermann, Mayor Bloomberg (whose speech should be mandatory reading for all), and President Obama himself (kind of?!) all voice support for the Islamic Community Center, and gave passionate accounts on the right, the pure, basic, simple right for this Center to be built, us Muslims need to speak up.
We need to speak up and do an excellent job of differentiating ourselves from the people who flew those planes into those towers.
Although we are the majority in our religion and we know Islam is not about violence, moderate Muslims need to speak up because we have been muddled and lumped together with the terrorists for long enough. We are the ones that pay the price by getting stuck in airport security and extra screening lines, get denied visas, and become marginalized in our societies.
It could not be more clear that around the world we are viewed as the same as those terrorists who kill and plunder in the name of our faith while we remain silent.
We need to stipulate that those men who brought down the Twin Towers were not Muslims. People who park their cars packed with explosives and abandon them in Times Square in the name of Islam are not Muslim. They are terrorists and they terrorize Muslims just as much as anyone else. They are not us and we are not them. And there is no better time for moderate Muslims to reclaim their faith from the terrorists than now, during Ramadan.
And while we go around stipulating and articulating this point, we must make sure that we start calling the Park 51 Community Center what it is: Not a mosque but an Islamic Community Center.
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You don't meet these people halfway, if they're not willing to be truthful. You don't stake out a nuanced position that precisely balances first amendment rights with "but maybe it's insensitive to the families of the victims".
Here's what's important:
The trade center was attacked because some Moslems were manipulated into a frenzy over a perception that America hates Islam. The victims died because the perpetrators believed so strongly that America hated Islam, that in fact they were willing to lose their own lives to return the perceived insult.
There are now American GI's taking bullets in Iraq and Afghanistan, trying to convince Islam that we don't actually hate them.
We need to decrease the level of hostility between fanatic anti-American Muslims and fanatic anti-Muslim Americans. We don't need to give the finger to Al Qaeda, and we don't need to provide them, free of charge, with even more evidence that we want to eliminate their religion. This is an issue of national security, and the proposed community center will advance America's interest, probably more effectively than all the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. It will honor all of those who died on 9/11, by recognizing that you don't combat hate with more hate.
if tabloid bull shit sells then i say
if the pigs want corn fed em corn.
you can't win with the media.
this issue has brought a lot of issues out into the open, so good
this issue is very emotional and could have been avoided easily by finding another site.
pick your battles carefully,
very poor judgement to bait this reaction.
move the center, consider the feelings not the rights.
However, Empires always need to feel a sense of righteous rage and grievance to further what are basically invasions of other peoples' lands, not so different than what the British did when colonizing what they believed were wild, barbarous, and fanatic peoples (what they were doing in other people's lands was never a question either).
There is always a maximum and scary enemy to demonize and fight.
You've already mentioned that part of the building is for prayer, so why couldn't at some future date the entire building (or most of it) be used for prayer and therefore be a mosque?
Your point about nomenclature is kind of silly especially as the Ground Zero Mosque is clearly a mosque even by your and KO's definition. And saying that someone who doesn't follow your special definitions should be discredited is about as sensible as discrediting any critic of Glenn Beck who doesn't know enough to spell his first name correctly.
You certainly don't convert anyone by trying to deny any connection between Islam and Muslims and 9/11. That's also too silly to be credible.
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The year before 9/11, I was in that area on business and I saw a group of Muslims gathered in prayer at a spot 2 blocks away from where the mosque is being built. Meaning the Muslim presence in lower Manhattan was significant before 9/11 and whatever facility they had for prayer there was inadequate.
One of the supporters of the building said that, since the mosque only takes up 6% of the proposed building, he preferred to call the "Swimming Pool at Ground Zero." It's just as accurate.
Unfortunately, there have been protests against the building of mosques in many other parts of the country. The message we're sending is not, "Terrorists are not welcome here," but, "Muslims are not welcome here." Is that how Americans want to portray themselves?
First, in your favor, the proposed community center is not in the WTC footprint. Two blocks away means that it's not even on facing street. Therefore, it's an extreme exaggeration to say that Park 51 is on ground zero.
Second, the concept that the WTC is holy ground is ludicrous. True, some 3,000 bodies were entombed there....but their remains are no longer there.
The World Trade Center is a battlefield, not a cemetery, and battlefields are often considered holy ground....but that doesn't make it so. Venerating a place where people have died is a form of magical thinking.
If the World Trade Center is considered holy because 3,000 people died there, then nothing should be built there ever again. Any other use of that ground invalidates the claim that the WTC site is sacred ground. Since there are plans to build there again, the claim of holiness is invalidated, regardless of how people feel about it (and I, also, lost people there.)
If the Community Center isn't a mosque, then that use is not protected by the First Amendment religious guarantees, but it is still protected by the First Amendment right to the freedom of assembly. If it is a mosque, then it's presence is also protected by the Constitution. No one should attempt to block the renovation of this site as an Islamic Community Center on these grounds.
However, the Community Center was proposed for this location specifically to provoke the reaction they are getting. This is a process called agitation and propaganda.
By opposing the project, the opponents prove the developer's point that there's widespread Islamophobia in America. Feeling the impact of the Islamophobia polarizes more young Muslims who will feel discriminated against and become more radicalized by it. This is the essence of agitation. Constant repetition of the cant that Islam is a peaceful religion in defense of the Community Center, gives its developers opportunities to reinforce that message. This is propaganda.
Islam is neither peaceful or militaristic. It is both. There are peaceful Muslims and angry Muslims bent on the destruction of the west. It is fanciful to pretend otherwise.
Your arguments fail, however, when you make the statement that the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks are not Muslims. They have made the Shahadah (the profession of faith), they have prayed five times a day, which means that they have renewed their profession of faith five times a day. They have not renounced their religion. Therefore, whether you like it or not, they are Muslims, and statements to the contrary are disingenuous.
Some people are simply prejudiced against Islam because they know nothing about the religion. Other people know a great deal about the religion, and are still against Islam....and many of these people are actually Muslims themselves!
Other people recognize that, while most Muslims are no more dangerous than most Christians, there are some Muslims who are very dangerous, and the innocent Muslims among us provide cover for the guilty ones.
Drop a teaspoon of sugar into a glass of water. The water remains crystal clear but, if you drink it, it will taste sweet. Now, take the same glass of water. Put a few drops of ink into the glass. The ink disperses. The water remains crystal clear....but there's still ink in the water even if you can't see it and, if you drink the water, it will still taste sweet, even though the ink is still in the water.
This is Islam. There's both sugar and ink in the water and, not being able to separate the ink from the sugar, we either drink it or refuse it.
To characterize fears of all Muslims because there are radical Muslims among them as prejudice misses the point. Sometimes, it's prejudice and sometimes i's discrimination. (Prejudice is believing the actions of an individual adhere to the group. Discrimination is favoring or opposing a group on the basis of the behavior of the group as a group.)
And, no matter how you try to obscure it, the fact remains that the Qu'ran abjures the religious to jihad, to warring against the enemies of Islam. Islam has been spread around the world by the sword as well as by word of mouth. Forcible conversions to Islam have been commonplace in history.
Arguments that fail to encompass these facts cannot be taken at face value.
Can you post some links to the other mosque protests? - I must have missed them. I am looking out of my office in Massachusetts at a brand new mosque across the street and don't recall any protest for that one.
OK, so, people. This isn't about a mosque, or ground zero, or anything else but the Constitution.
So, here I am. I am a Bigot. I hate Muslims, and I don't have to give you a reason why, I just do, and I am OK with that. I am also an intellectually honest and principled person.
Therefore, I, unlike many of my countrymen who also hate anything Muslim with the same, if not stronger, fervor as I do, will not take the coward's way out. I will not speak out of both sides of my mouth. I will not pretend to defend the Constitution in one breath, and cynically suggest that the Community Center should move in the next.
Why? Because the Community Center, and all Muslims, for that matter, cannot move far away enough for me. Pluto would be too close. It's not that I don't want them building at GZ, I just want them to GO AWAY!
But, I can't ask my representitives or government to break the law. The law is what it is, and as much as I hate it, that's what I have to deal with. So- I am asking my representatives for something else.
I want them to ban Islam in the USA. That's right- by whatever means necessary. Hire the best constitutional lawyers available, and craft an amendment. These are different times, and the Constitution as it exists now, must be changed. The concept of Religious Freedom is quaint and dangerous, and it stands squarely in the way of what I think would be best for this country, which is the following:
1. Make the practice of Islam a Crime.
2. Raze all Muslim houses of worship
3. Place all Muslims under immediate house arrest, without due process.
4. Deport all Muslim non-citizens.
5. Arrest any Muslim caught crossing our borders and throw them into a military stockade.
Truly, that is the only thing that will satisfy me, and that is what I will fight to my last breath to see happen. It is what I believe in my heart.
Some of you may call me a bigot. You would be right. I am a bigot, and proudly so. I am also an honest bigot. I make no attempts to soft-pedal my bigotry. I will not make excuses for it. I will not pretend to be otherwise. Besides, even people of average intelligence can figure out that if I say I support the constitutional rights of Park 51 sponsors, but insist they move elsewhere, then I some how believe that all Muslims are guilty. They would be right, so to say as much would make me a liar. Therefore, I will not insult their intelligence like that, and more importantly, make an ass of myself.
This will be an uphill battle, and I will need all the support I can get. My heart is gladdened to see that so many- perhaps even a majority, of my countrymen think this is a good idea- they just don't realize it yet. So, all of you who are in opposition, please take a moment to look in the mirror and ask yourself if you are being honest. Those with integrity will soon realize that my position makes sense, and I will welcome you with open arms when you do.
Looking forward to your support.
OK, so, people. This isn't about a mosque, or ground zero, or anything else but the Constitution.
So, here I am. I am a Bigot. I hate Muslims, and I don't have to give you a reason why, I just do, and I am OK with that. I am also an intellectually honest and principled person.
Therefore, I, unlike many of my countrymen who also hate anything Muslim with the same, if not stronger, fervor as I do, will not take the coward's way out. I will not speak out of both sides of my mouth. I will not pretend to defend the Constitution in one breath, and cynically suggest that the Community Center should move in the next.
Why? Because the Community Center, and all Muslims, for that matter, cannot move far away enough for me. Pluto would be too close. It's not that I don't want them building at GZ, I just want them to GO AWAY!
But, I can't ask my representitives or government to break the law. The law is what it is, and as much as I hate it, that's what I have to deal with. So- I am asking my representatives for something else.
I want them to ban Islam in the USA. That's right- by whatever means necessary. Hire the best constitutional lawyers available, and craft an amendment. These are different times, and the Constitution as it exists now, must be changed. The concept of Religious Freedom is quaint and dangerous, and it stands squarely in the way of what I think would be best for this country, which is the following:
1. Make the practice of Islam a Crime.
2. Raze all Muslim houses of worship
3. Place all Muslims under immediate house arrest, without due process.
4. Deport all Muslim non-citizens.
5. Arrest any Muslim caught crossing our borders and throw them into a military stockade.
Truly, that is the only thing that will satisfy me, and that is what I will fight to my last breath to see happen. It is what I believe in my heart.
Some of you may call me a bigot. You would be right. I am a bigot, and proudly so. I am also an honest bigot. I make no attempts to soft-pedal my bigotry. I will not make excuses for it. I will not pretend to be otherwise. Besides, even people of average intelligence can figure out that if I say I support the constitutional rights of Park 51 sponsors, but insist they move elsewhere, then I some how believe that all Muslims are guilty. They would be right, so to say as much would make me a liar. Therefore, I will not insult their intelligence like that, and more importantly, make an ass of myself.
This will be an uphill battle, and I will need all the support I can get. My heart is gladdened to see that so many- perhaps even a majority, of my countrymen think this is a good idea- they just don't realize it yet. So, all of you who are in opposition, please take a moment to look in the mirror and ask yourself if you are being honest. Those with integrity will soon realize that my position makes sense, and I will welcome you with open arms when you do.
Looking forward to your support.
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/87099/ground-zero-mosque-styled-protests.html
[here's the url if you care to read it: http://open.salon.com/blog/gailrae/2010/08/17/but_newt_rush_we_did_do_that]
I'm on the side of allowing the Community Center to be built, as are you, and annoyed that there is any controversy, as are you.
Because one of my commenters characterized Islamic reaction to the controversy as all of a piece, though, and this also annoyed me, I decided to research Islamic reaction against the Community Center and write a post about that (which wasn't picked up for the front page, probably because it's fairly dense and researched).
[Again, here's the url for that post, just in case: http://open.salon.com/blog/gailrae/2010/08/18/are_they_really_like_that]
In the second post I also cited the first Daily Beast article you did, because it contains a link to an article by an American Muslim woman who questions the "wisdom" of the project, as well as other aspects of Islam. I, too, was surprised that the Daily Beast published Murray's excoriating article, which was so full of lather I actually had to laugh, at times; and I read the second Daily Beast article to which you linked but didn't cite it, since it wasn't within the purview of my second post.
The point of my second post is that people who follow Islam are people, first, complicated, variable, exactly as we all are, and Muslims, second.
In support of your article, this morning I wandered off on a brief survey of YMCA community centers nationwide (pretty much, one that fell within the purview of my survey is in Ceylon). Although not all YMCA community centers contain chapels (often described as "interfaith"), quite a few of them do as a matter of course, which shouldn't surprise us, since YMCA stands for "Young Men's Christian Association" (In July of this year, the organization changed its name to, simply, "the Y"). Some of them even hold regular services in their chapels. Many of them are non-denominational. All that have chapels inside the facilities also seem to make connections with church leaders throughout their communities to administer chapel "business", so to speak. It is not uncommon for these chapels to remain open 24/7 even when the rest of the facility closes, thus the chapels are usually located near the main entrance just off the lobby. And, yet, we do not refer to YMCA community centers as "churches". Many YMCA organizations also have stand-alone chapels. In addition, the Pentagon houses an interfaith chapel, established and built after that 9/11 attack, but we do not refer to the Pentagon as a "church". So, you are right. The use of the word "mosque" to describe the Park 51 Community Center, whether or not it is technically correct (and that, as so many other issues surrounding this issue, is highly debatable), it is colloquially incorrect and a strong, centuries long precedent has been established to support this. In case you or anyone else is interested, in my research this morning I discovered that someone else made the same survey I did. Their results are published here:
http://community.bhg.com/t5/General-Debate/Stand-with-Muslim-Americans/td-p/155315/page/8
Forgive my wordiness. I have one other point to make. When I was researching my post on Muslim protest against Park 51, I ran across a curious comment in one of my sources that I think you'll appreciate. It is in a column that Neda Bolourchi wrote for the Washington Post on August 8, 2010. She is a Muslim who opposes the proposed location for Park 51. Here's what she says:
"From the first memorial ceremonies I attended at Ground Zero, I have always been moved by the site; it means something to be close to where my mother may be buried, it brings some peace. That is why the prospect of a mosque near Ground Zero -- or a church or a synagogue or any religious or nationalistic monument or symbol -- troubles me."
I notice, in your post, that you viewed the Keith Olbermann special comment on the controversy that I did. One of the points he makes is that, within close viewing distance of the WTC site are two Christian churches. Obviously, Bolourchi didn't notice them, but who can blame her? Her heart is heavy with other concerns.
This is what happens when we are swayed by our emotions; we fail to see the objective reality, fail to allow that objective reality to influence our thoughts. It's endemic to being human. This, however, does not excuse us when it comes to making a determination that involves right and wrong.
Thank you for your post, Anushay, it's important.
What disrespect, what insensitivity, what nerve, what audacity, what callousness.....What are these people thinking?~~~
I can't believe how so many are saying it is a Constitutional issue, a racial issue, a religious issue, etc. It is far from the truth. Many of us understand that the Constitution protects them, but just because it does doesn't mean it is right. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf says it is to promote relations and understanding. He should then practice what he is saying, and build someplace else, and REALLY show good faith. I am a Republican, that has voted Democratic. I am NOT saying they can't build. I am saying to show understanding, and empathy, and build some where else. Some are asking how far is "far enough"? Well, if that is an issue, I have a suggestion. Ground Zero is NOT only where the buildings stood. We all know how horrendous their destruction was, and how much ground they covered when they came down. Measure the buildings height, and apply that measurement from Ground Zero all the way around. All that area should be Hallowed Ground, and off-limits to constructions of any future mosques/commumnity center. Problem solved.
Every time these people tear a church or synagogue down, they build a mosque in it's place, as an "IN YOUR FACE" psychological statement. I have read about Islam and Muslim's history, and that is how I also see it. Muslims may not "conquer" the way they did years ago, but conquer they do. Why is it that in every country they are in, they feel Sharia Law is perfect or better, and want to "improve" on those countries laws and constitutions? Why is it that the deeper they get in a government, they start "demanding" changes. Then if they don't achieve what they want, they complain that it is descrimination. And then it escalates to religious intolerance. If Muslims have a problem with other countries' laws, why don't they stay where their roots are? Or better yet, go back, and practice your beheadings, cutting of hands, or barbaric practices like crucifixtions.
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Easternstargeek - while recognizing that you have the right to your words and feelings, as the rest of us do, let me assure you that you'll not be welcoming me to your 'fold' with any kind of arms - for me, that you be on the other side of the *known universe* from where I live is not quite far enough to suit me.
Rather than comment here you'd have better put your time and effort to use by using your own blog. But again, comments were open of course. May you be lonely is my only other thought.
Rated for Anushay's courage.
Too bad only one of them excoriated me for what I wrote.
very poor judgement to bait this reaction.
move the center, consider the feelings not the rights."
If we deny them their rights, then we throw away our
own rights.
I say build it where they want to and if someone else's
feelings get hurt, then the one with the hurt feelings will
just have to get over it.
I am not willing to give up my rights so that someone else
can be denied their rights.
just have to get over it."
Yeah, the way the murderer of the cartoonist got over his.
Don't you see the double standards you're signing on to?
I don't know why I bothered contributing to this meretricious post, but as its author has asked me to stop, I'd best for fear of losing my writing hand.
Allah is an enemy to unbelievers. - Sura 2:98
On unbelievers is the curse of Allah. - Sura 2:161
Slay them wherever ye find them and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter. - 2:191
Fight against them until idolatry is no more and Allah's religion reigns supreme. (different translation: ) Fight them until there is no persecution and the religion is God's entirely. - Sura 2:193 and 8:39
Fighting is obligatory for you, much as you dislike it. - 2:216
(different translation: ) Prescribed for you is fighting, though it is hateful to you.
..... martyrs.... Enter heaven - Surah 3:140-43
If you should die or be killed in the cause of Allah, His mercy and forgiveness would surely be better than all they riches they amass. If you should die or be killed, before Him you shall all be gathered. - 3:157-8
You must not think that those who were slain in the cause of Allah are dead. They are alive, and well-provided for by their Lord. - Surah 3:169-71
Let those fight in the cause of God who sell the life of this world for the hereafter. To him who fights in the cause of God, whether he is slain or victorious, soon we shall give him a great reward. - Surah 4:74
Those who believe fight in the cause of God, and those who reject faith fight in the cause of evil. - 4:76
But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever you find them. - 4:89
Therefore, we stirred among them enmity and hatred, which shall endure till the Day of Resurrection, when Allah will declare to them all that they have done. - 5:14
O believers, take not Jews and Christians as friends; they are friends of each other. Those of you who make them his friends is one of them. God does not guide an unjust people. - 5:54
Make war on them until idolatry is no more and Allah's religion reigns supreme - 8:39
O Prophet! Exhort the believers to fight. If there are 20 steadfast men among you, they shall vanquish 200; and if there are a hundred, they shall rout a thousand unbelievers, for they are devoid of understanding. - 8:65
It is not for any Prophet to have captives until he has made slaughter in the land. - 8:67
Allah will humble the unbelievers. Allah and His apostle are free from obligations to idol-worshipers. Proclaim a woeful punishment to the unbelievers. - 9:2-3
When the sacred months are over, slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them. - 9:5
Believers! Know that idolators are unclean. - 9:28
Fight those who believe neither in God nor the Last Day, nor what has been forbidden by God and his messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, even if they are People of the Book, until they pay the tribute and have been humbled. - 9:29 (another source: ) The unbelievers are impure and their abode is hell. (another source: ) Humiliate the non-Muslims to such an extent that they surrender and pay tribute.
Whether unarmed or well-equipped, march on and fight for the cause of Allah, with your wealth and your persons. - 9:41
O Prophet! Make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites. Be harsh with them. Their ultimate abode is hell, a hapless journey's end. - 9:73
Allah has purchased of their faithful lives and worldly goods, and in return has promised them the Garden. They will fight for His cause, kill and be killed. - 9:111
Fight unbelievers who are near to you. 9:123 (different translation:
Believers! Make war on the infidels who dwell around you. Let them find harshness in you. (another source: ) Ye who believe! Murder those of the disbelievers....
As for those who are slain in the cause of Allah, He will not allow their works to perish. He will vouchsafe them guidance and ennoble their state; He will admit them to the Paradise He has made known to them. - 10:4-15
Allah has cursed the unbelievers and proposed for them a blazing hell. - 33:60
Unbelievers are enemies of Allah and they will roast in hell. - 41:14
When you meet the unbelievers, smite their necks, then when you have made wide slaughter among them, tie fast the bonds, then set them free, either by grace or ransom, until the war lays down its burdens. - 47:4
(different translation: ) When you meet the unbelievers in the battlefield, strike off their heads, and when you have laid them low, bind your captives firmly.
Those who are slain in the way of Allah - he will never let their deeds be lost. Soon will he guide them and improve their condition, and admit them to the Garden, which he has announced for them. - 47:5
Muslims are harsh against the unbelievers, merciful to one another. - 48:25
Muhammad is Allah's apostle. Those who follow him are ruthless to the unbelievers but merciful to one another. Through them, Allah seeks to enrage the unbelievers. - 48:29
Prophet! Make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites and deal sternly with them. Hell shall be their home, evil their fate. - 66:9
The unbelievers among the People of the Book and the pagans shall burn forever in the fire of hell. They are the vilest of all creatures. - 98:51