Terror attack over, 147 dead at Kenya university

Just saying your idea that Christian ideals led the FBI/CIA to help African Americans isn't exactly factual:

In one particularly controversial 1965 incident, white civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo was murdered by Ku Klux Klansmen, who gave chase and fired shots into her car after noticing that her passenger was a young black man; one of the Klansmen was Gary Thomas Rowe, an acknowledged FBI informant.[65][66] The FBI spread rumors that Liuzzo was a member of the Communist Party and had abandoned her children to have sexual relationships with African Americans involved in the Civil Rights Movement.[67][68] FBI records show that J. Edgar Hoover personally communicated these insinuations to President Johnson.[69][70] FBI informant Rowe has also been implicated in some of the most violent crimes of the 1960s civil rights era, including attacks on the Freedom Riders and the 1963 Birmingham, Alabama 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.

And regarding At-Tawba, it gets quoted out of context so often that I don't bother to debate it anymore. This has a pretty good summary of the historical context for the time that At-Tawba was supposedly revealed (I'm an atheist). Websites like "religionofpeace" and "answeringislam" make it too easy to throw out ayahs without actually understanding them.

(48:29). For “Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah; and those with him are forceful against the disbelievers, merciful among themselves”.

Lol this is another one that pops up all the time. If you actually entire surah, "disbelievers" is specifically referring to people who were preventing Muslims from reaching their place of worship.

48:25 says "They are (the ones) who disbelieved and barred you from the Inviolable Mosque and (barred) the consecrated offering (also) from reaching its lawful destination."

Anyway, I've had this debate a million times already on reddit.

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