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This is just a smattering of quotes from the Koran. Many more could be given. BTW, I am not Muslim. I am an Evangelical Christian. I only put forth these quotes to show that Bin Laden, et al are not behaving like traditional Muslims. Like I said, the image of their religion has been hijacked by revolutionaries who couldn't care less about Islam. Indeed, they are doing their level best to dupe/provoke the great monotheistic religions to do battle with one another (while they sit back and laugh at us).

"Do not kill yourselves." (Qur'an, 4:29)

"Those who believe and do not mix up their belief with any wrongdoing, they are the ones who are safe…" (Qur'an, 6:82)

"A good deed and a bad deed are not the same. Repel the bad with something better and, if there is enmity between you and someone else, he will be like a bosom friend." (Qur'an, 41:34)

"... Let not the hatred of a people [who once] obstructed you from the Sacred Mosque lead you to transgress. Help one another in benevolence and piety, and help not one another in sin and transgression…" (Qur'an, 5:2)

"God commands justice and doing good and giving to relatives. And He forbids indecency and doing wrong and tyranny. He warns you so that hopefully you will pay heed." (Qur'an, 16:90)

"Eat and drink of God's provision and do not go about the earth corrupting it." (Qur'an, 2:60)

"...if someone kills another person - unless it is in retaliation for someone else or for causing corruption in the earth - it is as if he had murdered all mankind. And if anyone gives life to another person, it is as if he had given life to all mankind..." (Qur'an, 5:32)

"There are only grounds against those who wrong people and act as tyrants in the earth without any right to do so. Such people will have a painful punishment." (Qur'an, 42:42)

"O You who believe! Show integrity for the sake of God, bearing witness with justice. Do not let hatred for a people incite you into not being just. Be just. That is closer to faith. Heed God (alone). God is aware of what you do." (Qur'an, 5:8)

"If your Lord had willed, all the people on the earth would have believed. Do you think you can
force people to be believers?"
(Qur'an, 10:99)

"There is no compulsion in religion. True guidance has become clearly distinct from error." (Qur'an, 2:256)

"So remind them! You are only a reminder. You are not in control of them." (Qur'an, 88:21-22)

"Make allowances for people" (Qur'an, 7:199)

"those who give in times of both ease and hardship, those who control their rage and pardon other people - God loves the good-doers" (Qur'an, 3:134)

"... You will never cease to come upon some act of treachery on their part, except for a few of them. Yet pardon them, and overlook. God loves good-doers." (Qur'an, 5:13)

"Fight in the Way of God against those who fight you, but do not go beyond the limits. God does not love those who go beyond the limits." (Qur'an, 2:190)