This seems a very honest and sincere question from an avowed non-believer in any faith. Readers are invited to think and express themselves on whether we should be engaging in Ijtihad and seeking to understand the relevance and practicability of some controversial aspects of our faith in the present New Age.
This brings us back to the question of those belligerent verses in the Holy Quran, asking us to kill the non-believers wherever we find them. Only the enemies of Islam and the Jihadis own them as relevant and meaningful and binding on all Muslims for all times and in all situations but the rest of us too do not want to disown them and yet we claim to be a peaceful religion fit to be allowed to live in peace and in close proximity to others. Do these verses continue to provide us guidance today in the present situation and are they binding on us today? And if that is so, is the rest of the world justified in being afraid of us? Are we encouraging Islamophobia of the world by owning bellicose verses of the Holy Quran as our guide unnecessarily today, verses which provided us necessary and appropriate guidance in a certain situation in the 7th century A D., but clearly are no longer relevant in the present situation?
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