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not think fit to embrace Mohammedanism" I have failed to find such liberal treatment of a man, an enemy, by his adversary anywhere else. I will refer here my readers to a few more verses of the Holy Qur-án which will, I fancy, decide the question of the place of war in Islam. They are verses 12, 13, and 14 of Chapter xi. That the Muslim wars in those days were against those who tried to extirpate Islam from the surface of the earth, and not against the non- Muslims of the world, appears clearly enough from verse 123 of the chapter on Immunity: "O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness; and know that Allah is with those who guard (against evil)."
The commandment is not general and should act as a rule of guidance in interpreting all the injunctions relating to Muslim fighting.
In the above quotations I have also given all the verses from the Qur-án which have from time to time furnished a weapon against Islam to adverse camps. A critic ought to be just and fair in his comments. I wonder how it fits the mouth of a learned and honest Christian missionary (most of the adverse cirtics of Islam being found among that class)
