Huge brains, experts, politicians and the MSM never mention Islam in the same sentence as Jihad, terror, fighting, killing, or murder. For these sundry disciples of cultural Marxism and relativity Islam is a 'religion', meaning by default it preaches peace and tolerance. The fact that nothing in the Koran comports with this simple-minded world-view does not sway the irrational from holding that opinion. Most of the Koran is dedicated to eradicating the Kufar, a word which in Arabic means sub-human, and installing a Moslem dominated ideology across the entire globe.

Some miscellaneous Koranic verses of striving, hate and Jihad:

      016:110: YUSUFALI: …who thereafter strive and fight for the faith and patiently persevere…

      022:039: Permission (to fight) is given to those upon whom war is made…

      022:078: …strive hard [in Jihad] in (the way of) Allah, (such) a striving a is due to Him…

      029:006: …strives hard [in Jihad], he strives only for his own soul…

      029:069: … (as for) those who strive hard [in Jihad] for Us…

      033:015: PICKTHAL: …they had already sworn unto Allah that they would not turn their backs (to the foe) [in Jihad battle] …

      033:018: …they come not to the fight [Jihad] but a little,

      033:020: …they would not fight save a little [in Jihad].

      033:025-026: [33.25] …Allah sufficed the believers in fighting… [33.26] …some [Jews] you killed and you took captive another part.

      047:020: [47.20] …fighting [allusion to Jihad] is mentioned therein …

      048:016: …You shall soon be invited (to fight) against a people possessing mighty prowess; you will fight against them until they submit…

      048:022:…if those who disbelieve fight with you, they would certainly turn (their) backs…

      059:002: …the hands of the believers [i. e. Muslims demolished Jewish homes] …

      059:005-008: [59.5] Whatever palm-tree you cut down or leave standing upon its roots [during a Jihad siege] …you did not press forward against it any horse or a riding camel but Allah gives authority to His apostles against whom He pleases… [59.7] Whatever Allah has restored to His Apostle from the people of the towns [booty] … [59.8] (It is) for …assisting Allah and His Apostle [booty] …

      059:014: They will not fight against you in a body save in fortified towns or from behind walls…

      060:009: Allah only forbids you respecting those who made war upon you on account of (your) religion [i.e., no fraternizing with the enemy] …

      061:004: …Allah loves those who fight in His way in ranks as if they were a firm and compact wall.

      063:004: …they think every cry to be against them. They are the enemy, therefore beware of them; may Allah destroy them, whence are they turned back? [This verse speaks of internecine Jihad against Muslims deemed infidels or “hypocrites.”]

      064:014: …surely from among your wives and your children there is an enemy to you; therefore beware of them [collaborators with the enemy, especially if the women were once war spoils] …

      066:009: O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites [Jews, Christians], and be hard against them…

      073:020: …others who fight in Allah's way… 

Striving or Lesser Jihad, means to use all of one's personal belongings, assets, money, property, self and soul, in order to subdue non-Moslems to the Allah-thing. Muhammadism by its own demands is Manichean and divides the world into 'us versus them'. There is not a single quote from the Koran that anyone can show, in the entirety of a verse and Sura, in which Kufars are accepted as equal, allowed to practice their faith, and are to be left alone. Sura 2-256 is the only example the big brains can come up with, and that myth is debunked here and here.