Lol all you want, but I have committed time to theological study as well as the academic. Islam portrays itself as the religion of peace, but it is peace through war and conversion. It is peace through compulsion. It is antithetical to democracy.
All the peaceful verses you can quote are easily countered by verses that encourage violence against those who do not believe or violate the scripture.
Much like it takes years to build something but seconds to destroy it, years of peace can be nullified by one act of heinous violence. Islam cannot be the religion of peace if it ever endorses the opposite: and it does.
I have quote the last part in a previous comment. But yes, it was his way of asserting authority depending on his needs at the time.
All the peaceful verses you can quote are easily countered by verses that encourage violence against those who do not believe or violate the scripture.
Much like it takes years to build something but seconds to destroy it, years of peace can be nullified by one act of heinous violence. Islam cannot be the religion of peace if it ever endorses the opposite: and it does.
I have quote the last part in a previous comment. But yes, it was his way of asserting authority depending on his needs at the time.