A truthful person is always impartial in making a judgment. If he really wants to find out the Truth, he must study the Book of The Creator with an open mind and without being influenced by unholy and sinful deeds of the Muslim Kings. Some elements in the Muslim society have tarnished the fair image of Islam by their foolhardiness. They have dragged Islam to achieve their petty political goals, exploiting the young generation even to the extent of exhorting, abetting and justifying suicide missions. One can see that there are a number of non-Muslim groups involved in armed conflicts, killings, and other disruptive and terrorist activities. But as they have not tagged the name of their religion with their political movements, they are not termed as Hindu, Buddha or Christian terrorists. For instance, no one calls the Sri Lankan crisis a religious one, or a war between Hinduism and Buddhism. No body maligns their scriptures or religion because both of them are not using their religion as tools. Similarly there are many extremist groups in the North-eastern states of India mostly professing Christianity. But nobody will brand them ‘Christian terrorists’. Terrorism is basically political in nature and needs a political solution.

Thus the objection mentioned above consists of two parts. First, the Qur’an provokes upon killing the infidels – Kafirs. And secondly, the word ‘Kafir’ is used as a synonym for ‘Hindu’. So we will deal with both parts of this objection in detail in the light of the Qur’an.

The Qur’an is the Book of The GOD Who is the Creator and Master of the whole humanity, universe and all that exists. HE is providing the so called Kafirs on the earth also with all sorts of sustenance. Then how can HE command Muslims to kill them for nothing?

Here we should find out the connotation of the term Kafir, at the outset. Then we should enlist all those instances where the faithfuls are commanded to fight against the Kafirs and the reasons for such orders. For, The GOD of all will not command to fight just for the fun of it. We have to look at the pros and cons of each of such instances.

The objection is a sweeping remark and does not contain references to specific Verses of the Qur’an, and so the outcome of analysis is: There is no command in the Qur’an to kill the Kafirs just because they are Kafirs. On the contrary Qur’an grants all others the right to religious freedom. For the reference we are quoting the whole chapter number 109 here. The heading of the chapter is Al-Kafiroon:

“Say: O Kafirs, I do not worship that which you worship, and neither do you worship that which I worship. And I will not worship that which you are worshipping and neither will you worship that which I worship. Unto you, your religion and unto me mine!”

(From Holy Qur'an 109/1-6)

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Secondly, in the Holy Qur’an, particularly the Hindus are not referred to as ‘Kafirs’. Some Muslim rulers might have used the terminology to serve their political agenda.

The word ‘Kufr’ (noun form) is used for behaviors, thoughts, acts, mind-sets, styles, attitudes and deeds of individuals. It is not used to denote any caste, community, culture or race. Some verses of the Qur’an prove that such follies of thoughts and deeds could be committed by a Muslim too. The word ‘Kufr’ has been employed to mean disobedience, sin, denial, rebellion, hiding truth and even tilling of land. It is used to mean ingratitude as opposed to gratitude and reward. There will remain a strong need to search how the Muslims misused this word often. Also it will remain a strong need to understand its exact purport in the Verse it had been used. Some men of letters in service of Muslim despots had also used this term against their political rivals, even against various Muslim communities to suppress or exploit them. The word Kufr - Kafir and its etymology have been dealt with in our explanation to objection 1-B. Please refer to it for further details.

To recap, a divine order to kill the Kafirs without reason does not exist anywhere in the Qur’an. On the contrary the Qur’an grants freedom of religion to Kafirs, “For you is your religion and for me, my religion.” (Chapter 109 Verse 6)

Q2: ‘Jihad’ has many connotations, but its real meaning is to fight against the non-Muslims people. It means to fight for the political supremacy of a Muslim nation. Is it reasonable and logical to publicize this idea?

Analysis 2: The word ‘Jihad’ is a Qur’anic term. It is in Arabic. There are a number of lexicons/ dictionaries of Arabic available at present. Lot of Christians, Jews and other non-Muslims born in the Middle East from ancient times speak this language. It is their mother tongue. Many out of them have served this language as writers and poets. Hence the popular Arabic Dictionary ‘Al-Moorid’ has also been compiled by a Christian Arab. Anybody can refer in any dictionary of Arabic that the word ‘Jihad’ does not mean what is alleged in the objection. This word has not been used in the Qur’an to denote a war. Its root is ("J-H-D" pronounced as JAHADA) which means to struggle hard, to strive hard. The word for ‘war’ used in the Qur’an is ‘Qital’ or ‘Harb’.