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So I don't know what the Quran reads, but I doubt what others have told me. Apparantly the Quran teaches for the followers to prosecute the non-believers... I was given this site to look at and I don't know what I think. Considering I have never read the Quran, I don't really believe this.

Are these even real passages? That's my first thought. How easy could it be to make up a passage and have people believe it especially when many people haven't read the book. Really easy.

Assuming those are real passages, I'd say the author of that particular site is rather biased and likely took more than a few quotes out of context. The gaps in the passages...unnerve me, and provide a basis of doubt. But the sheer quantity of passages posted kinda balances it out to me.

I havn't read the Quran either, by the way, and am thus hardly qualified to talk about this. I think your answers would better lie in a reliable book in a nearby library instead of anything on the internet. Simply because it's an internet site that isn't part of any organization that I'd call credible, I estimate that at least half of the entire site is bs.

As someone who is not only friends with a Fundamental Muslim residing in Egypt and as an individual (i.e. myself) required to read the Q'uran in a college course I can say it's a load of crap. Islam calls for violence no more than Christianity or Judaism.

You have to bear in mind verses (for the lack of a better word...I think they're called "surrahs" or something like that. If I'm mistaken please correct me) from various holy books have been taken out of context since historic times began. The trick is to look at the verses around it to get the full context. One verse he points out is really about personal struggles if I recall correctly. People do this with the Bible all the time: pick out a verse, ignore the other verses, and use that to justify something.

Also, if you look up the info on the domain name and IP address as given in the following:

http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/thereligionofpeace.com

there's not much info about who owns the site. In a day where anyone can buy a domain name it makes the person's credentials more questionable.

Yea, I brought up that people pick and choose and translate from the bible and almost every other religious book the way they want to. He ignored that and quoted a bunch of those verses. This just proves even more that the person who gave me the site is a either a fluff or extremists all their own. Or just an a**, which I have decided before this incident. I'll let the other person deal with him this time.

Is there violence in the Qur'an? Yes. Does the Qur'an actively advocate violence - no, not really.

Taking a quick skim through that site, I would say that the creator decided to pick and chose passages with out context to create his own message.

Violence is very clearly allowed in self-defense, and the early followers of Mohamed where definitely persecuted. Many of those passages refer to instances where the early community needed to fight in self-defense. Arabia was also, at that time, a fairly violent place to live, period.

My exposure suggests that the majority of the Qur'an focuses on re-iteration of Old and New Testament stories and teachings, humanity's relationship with God, and codifying of various civil matters (e.g. inheritance law).

Peace towards "people of the book" (Jews and Christians) is encouraged. They are not to be persecuted.

Admittedly, I am not a scholar of Islam, nor of Middle-Eastern History, so there may well be additional context which would refute what I have written, but I find the site linked above propagandist in nature.