re: Is the Koran or Quran taken out of context ?

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the quran says, "death to all non-believers". there is no mention of "zionists".

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Please cite the surah that contains this command/instruction.

Most will refer to a cherry-picked excerpt from surah 2.190-191 ("kill them wherever you come upon them"), but that is a very, very bad translation and is usually taken out of context.

The context is the fight between Mohamed's followers and the pagans at Mecca who had persecuted them, NOT the Jews at Medina. "Them" was neither the Jews nor the Christians; it was those specific pagans. Second, the two verses read together are clearly a reference to a defensive war. Last, the Arabic word does not translate as "kill," but rather as something like "engage in mortal combat or warfare." Elsewhere in the very same verses, the text says NOT to (basically) kill innocents.

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