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by SinomaSo 3871 days ago
Seriously, you are picking and choosing. Did you check the Sure before this one?. I will help you out:

[2-190]:Fight in the way of Allah those who fight you but do not transgress. Indeed. Allah does not like transgressors.

[2-191]:And kill them wherever you overtake them and expel them from wherever they have expelled you, and fitnah is worse than killing. And do not fight them at al-Masjid al- Haram until they fight you there. But if they fight you, then kill them. Such is the recompense of the disbelievers.

[2-192] And if they cease, then indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.

[2-193] Fight them until there is no [more] fitnah and [until] worship is [acknowledged to be] for Allah . But if they cease, then there is to be no aggression except against the oppressors.

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So what's better when all the four verses are quoted? Muslims are to fight and kill until "worship is for Allah" (your [2-193]). (The words "acknowledged to be" aren't actually in the original Arabic verses). Peace once everybody is a Muslim? That's why it's the "religion of peace?" How do you understand the verses?

At least when "al-Masjid al-Haram" remains untranslated it can be considered to be only valid around the Great Mosque of Mecca. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masjid_al-Haram But it's just where "do not fight them" is.