%u201CFight for the cause of God against those who fight against you: Kill them wherever ye find them . . . Fight therefore against them until there be no more civil discord, and the only worship be that of God.%u201D %u201CI will cast a dread into the hearts of the infidels. Strike off their heads then, and strike off from them every finger-tip.%u201D %u201CBelievers, wage war against such of the infidels as are your neighbors, and let them find you rigorous.%u201D %u201CAnd when the sacred months are passed, kill those that join other gods with God wherever ye find them; and seize them, besiege them, and lay in wait for them with every kind of ambush: but if they shall convert, and observe prayer, and pay the obligatory alms, then let them go their way, for God is Gracious.%u201D%u2014Sura 2:186-190, 212, 213; 8:12; 9:5, 124; 47:4,
