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Many people especially in West believe that Islam strictly believes in killing of infidels who do not submit to Islam. Plus that terrorism is influenced by ' Islamic Jihad' and which encourages to eliminate infidels from the world.
Such concept is wrong in its entirety. Islam does NOT allow killing of non Muslims the way terrorists do. Let me explain.
The Quran turns our attention to the high value of human life, whether it is Muslim or Non-Muslim and makes it absolutely forbidden to take an innocent life unjustly. The gravity of such a crime is equated, in the Quran, with the killing of all humanity.
“On that account: We ordained for the Children of Israel that if any one slew a person - unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land - it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people. Then although there came to them Our apostles with clear signs, yet, even after that, many of them continued to commit excesses in the land.” ( 5:32 )
"Allah forbids you not, with regard to those who fight you not for your faith, nor drive you out of your homes, from dealing kindly and justly with them: For Allah loves those who are just" (60:8)
So terrorists and other such people are enemies not to others but to Muslims as well.
Yeah, what Min & SteelCurtain said. The problem is that the Qur'an has contradictory teachings: in one verse, it says 'Kill!' while in another it says 'Don't kill!'. All in all, there are more verses which have negative connotations (e.g. apartheid, reduced human rights, mandatory execution) towards non-muslims than have positive ones. So it's easy to understand why it's possible to criticise the Qur'an for influencing terrorist/extremist acts: the problem is both that the terrorist/extremists are crazy and that the Qur'an gives them an excuse in the form of a divine mandate to do harm to others.
