In a thought-provoking article, The Quran's deadly role in inspiring Belgian slaughter ( Link: The Quran's deadly role in inspiring Belgian slaughter ) Nabeel Qureshi observes that the last major chapter of the Quran, chapter 9, is the most violent chapter in the entire text. Due to the fact that Muhammad acknowledged that later verses in the Quran can abrogate earlier verses, it is reasonable to conclude that Chapter 9's verses of violence abrogate any earlier verses of reconciliation.
Nabeel Qureshi writes:
Surah 9 is a command to disavow all treaties with polytheists and to subjugate Jews and Christians (9.29) so that Islam may “prevail over all religions” (9.33). It is fair to wonder whether any non-Muslims in the world are immune from being attacked, subdued or assimilated under this command. Muslims must fight, according to this final chapter of the Quran, and if they do not, then their faith is called into question and they are counted among the hypocrites (9.44-45). If they do fight, they are promised one of two rewards, either spoils of war or heaven through martyrdom. Allah has made a bargain with the mujahid who obeys: Kill or be killed in battle, and paradise awaits (9.111).
Turning our attention to the hadiths, they too can favor violence, as we see here:
Sahih al-Bukhari 2787—Allah guarantees that He will admit the Mujahid in His Case into Paradise if he is killed, otherwise He will return him to his home safely with rewards and war booty.”
Sahih al-Bukhari 2796—Narrated Anas: The Prophet said, “A single endeavor (of fighting) in Allah’s cause in the afternoon or in the forenoon is better than all the world and whatever is in it.”
Sahih al-Bukhari 2797—Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Prophet said, . . . “By Him in Whose Hands my soul is! I would love to be martyred in Allah’s Cause and then come back to life and then get martyred, and then come back to life again and then get martyred and then come back to life again and then get martyred.”
Debate Questions:
Do you want to live in a world where Islam "prevails over all other religions"?
Is the Islamic State not taking "spoils of war," when it takes over oil fields to thereby enrich itself through selling oil, and when it takes captive women as sex slaves?
Are the fighters of ISIS inspired by the paradise the Quran promises martyrs?