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3. Islam prohibits violence during wars; how can it then allow violence in normal times? the question of whether or not there is genocide or massacre or violence against human beings within islamic texts and the existence of violence towards men can be explained by the limitations and acceptable conducts during the time of war. A) forbidden actions during the war: killing through torture and atrocity; killing women who are not militaristically involved in war, children, slaves who are serving their masters, physically or mentally handicapped, old, sick and religious figures who have no interest in the world. However, if any of these join the war through their wealth or body, they can be killed. Cutting body parts of humans and animals is also forbidden. Acting against treaties and cease-fires is forbidden. Forests and vegetation cannot be burned unless it is necessary. Prisoners of war cannot be killed, the heads and other body parts of the dead cannot be desecrated or cut. Especially fathers and other close relatives, traders and merchants who are not involved in the war cannot be killed. There are other forbidden actions for the time of war but we will stop here. B) there are two types of actions that are forbidden in the time of peace but become acceptable in the time of war: first type: these include actions that are permissible against the enemy. It is permissible to kill, injure, follow and take prisoners from enemy soldiers. Those who cannot be killed were previously mentioned. Due to prophet mohammed’s hadith, “war is deceit” it is permissible surprise and cheat the enemy with the purpose of inciting the enemy to make strategic mistakes. “cold war” through propaganda is considered to be permissible as it is considered to be the prologue to wartime deceit. All kinds of weapons can be used. However, the use of poisonous weapons is condemned and rejected by muslim jurists. Burning castles and drowning the enemy is also permissible. As was done in badr war, water canals can be diverted and/or made unusable. Spies who pass information to the enemy are punished by death. In short, all actions except those that are specifically forbidden become permissible in the time of war. As an additional note, we should also state that naval and aerial warfare is acceptable.Second type: these include actions that can be taken against enemy wealth. Islamic law, as a principal, outlaws the destruction of any natural or private property. However, exceptions can be made in the time of war if the destruction of buildings or trees becomes necessary. It is impossible to think that a religion that has all these restrictions in place during war can promote or encourage violence, genocide, murder and massacres. 4. Fitnah (=instigation, provocation, testing and unjust persecution) the meaning of the word fitnah, in arabic, is “to burn ores that are extracted from the earth, like gold or silver, in order to separate the genuine from the sediment”. Quran calls separating the believers from non-believers, the auspicious from the aberrant and the good from the bad; and educating and testing and defining everyone’s real quality as fitnah. Therefore, the completely worldly life is a test and a fitnah. "every soul shall have a taste of death: and we test you by evil and by good by way of trial. To us must ye return." (anbiya: 21:35); "i know not but that it may be a trial for you, and a grant of (worldly) livelihood (to you) for a time" [[anbiya: 21:111]; "do men think that they will be left alone on saying, "we believe", and that they will not be tested? we did test those before them, and allah will certainly know those who are true from those who are false" [ankakubt: 2, 3]; "your riches and your children may be but a trial: but in the presence of allah, is the highest, reward."[teğabün: 15] apart from the general meaning of fitnah as a test, we will also look at its meaning of “act of malice, causing disorder and disturbing the public peace”. This is why god said in quran: "..for provocation and instigation are worse than slaughter." (al-baqara: 2:191] "..and fight them on until there is no more provocation or instigation." al-baqara: 2:193] confusing people’s mind, causing them to act out of order and markedly unrestrained, and controversy were also considered as an act of malice. This ayat indicates this: " but those in whose hearts is perversity follow the part thereof that is allegorical, seeking discord, and searching for its hidden meanings, but no one knows its hidden meanings except allah. "[al-i İmran, 3: 7] fitnah, in another meaning, means being exploited by ill-intended rulers and being oppressed by them. They said: "in allah do we put our trust. Our lord! make us not a trial for those who practice oppression" [yunus, 10: 85] 5. All religions accept that there is the hereafter and there is eternal punishment for unbelievers paul -- for instance -- says in the letter to the romans: "god has imprisoned men in their own disobedience only to show mercy to all mankind" (rom. 11:32). In the "eternal punishment" (matt. 25:46) of the last judgment the stress lies on the fact that this punishment is definitive, final, decisive for all eternity. In islam too, either reward or punishment awaits man at the end of the trial that is the life of this world. Those who engage in good deeds, and have faith in god, earn the good pleasure of god, and are rewarded with an eternal paradise . The wicked, those who deny god and transgress his limits, however, deserve hell, where they will encounter eternal punishment. Some ignorant people reads some qur’anic verses relating to eternal punishment and claims that the qur’an contains violence against humanity. Like verse 4: 56 “those who reject our signs, we shall soon cast into the fire: as often as their skins are roasted through, we shall change them for fresh skins, that they may taste the penalty: for allah is exalted in power, wise.” this is ignorance of all sacred books and insulting them. “did you suppose that we created you for amusement and that you would not return to us?” (sura al-muminun: 115). According to islam, there is no contradiction between the existence and ghastly torments of hell, and infinite mercy, true justice, and wisdom with its balance and absence of waste. Indeed, mercy, justice, and wisdom require its existence. For to punish a tyrant who tramples the rights of a thousand innocents and to kill a savage animal that tears to pieces a hundred cowed animals, is for the oppressed a thousand fold mercy within justice. While to pardon the tyrant and leave the savage beast free, is for hundreds of wretches a hundredfold pitilessness in place of that single act of misplaced mercy. Not to cast him into hell would comprise innumerable instances of mercilessness to innumerable claimants whose rights had been transgressed, in place of a single misplaced act of mercy. Yes, if a worthless rebel who assaults the people says to the proud ruler of the place: “you can’t put me in prison!”, affronting his dignity, if there is not a prison in the town, the ruler will have one made just to throw the ill-mannered wretch into it. In conclusion, those, who accuse islam and quran for being a book of violence or a religion of violence, either are out of their mind or ill intended or mis-educated. We have to answer them with knowledge and reason. Sometimes it is best to ignore them. Hence, the famous proverb: “if you threw a stone at every barking dog, there would be no stone left in the world.” and my 30 cents worth samsons last act was to bring down a building i think thats equal to september 11 and august seventh no?