Lesson 5: The Religion of Warfare In this lesson, I will repost two articles of mine from 2015. The first provides quotations from the Quran, and the second quotations from Islam’s Sahih Bukhari . From these, readers can see that Islam is only a religion of ‘peace’ if one understands peace as the result of submission —submission to Allah and to Islam. More honestly, it is a religion of submission that engages in jihad as a matter of course to make others submit to it. Of course, this applies more to some than to other Muslims. Yet this fact does explain much of Islamic history and the present day Islamic terrorist groups in various parts of the world. The purpose of this lesson is to identify some of the important and authoritative texts that undergird the understanding of Islam as a religion of warfare. What Does the Quran Say about Treatment of Jews and Christians? (3 February, 2015) The Quran seems to offer different advice on what to do with persons of other fai