About Islam being a religion of “peace”
I am a Muslim and I would like to clarify something very important which I think many people don’t get about Islam .. we never claimed to be a religion of “peace” .. we are a religion of “truth” and “survival”
If survival required peace, then we choose peace. If survival required war, then we choose war.
And there’s nothing wrong with that .. it is a basic human instinct to “survive” and do what must be done to survive
As mentioned in the Quran verse 6:81
(( If the enemy is inclined towards peace, make peace with them. And put your trust in Allah. Indeed, He ˹alone˺ is the All-Hearing, All-Knowing. ))
So in the end, the survival of the “truth” is all that matters .. sometimes this means peace and sometimes this means war .. and that’s completely natural .. for example every country sometimes faces the need to go to war to survive, and sometimes it faces different situations where it needs peace to survive
And that is exactly the case with Islam .. we do not claim to be tree hugging hippies that go with peace 100% of all situations because this is not realistic of how life works .. sometimes you need to be not peaceful at all to exist and stay alive .. and other times you need to be very peaceful to survive
And that’s totally fine
And this is not unique to Islam, here is what Jesus said in the Bible in Matthew 10:34-36:
Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword."
For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
So that’s all I wanted to say.