Sura 9 or ‘Repetance’ is one of the last two 'revelations' given to the ‘Prophet’ Muhammad and Sura 9 is theologically more important than earlier Medina or Mecca ‘revelations’ or Suras. This is the Muslim ‘law of abrogation’. What Sura 9 or Sura 5 explain and advocate, is more vital to Sharia and Muslim society and development, than what one can find in earlier verses. Sura 9 not as long as Sura 5, and in many places copies or restates what one can find in the longer Suras from 2-8. The 129 verses of Sura 9 reiterate and emphasises the 4 main ideas of the Koran:
1. Obey Allah (Baal or the moon deity of Mecca),
2. Follow his Messenger Muhammad,
3. Demonise the Christians and Jews, and
4. Fight and conquer unbelievers (non-Muslims)
We can count the number of verses within Sura 9, which directly demand violence against the Kufar ‘ape and pig’ to quote the Koran. Here is what the lay reader will find. Out of 129 verses in this Sura fully 32 verses preach violence against the Infidel. 32 is 24.8% or ¼ of the Sura demanding that Moslems attack and subdue the Infidel as an obligation to Allah/Muhammad. This ‘law’ has informed 1400 years of Muslim Jihad.
The verses in this Sura which comprise the violent 25% are: 2, 4, 5, 12, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 33, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 63, 68, 73, 90, 93, 100, 101, 111, 123. The rest of the Sura does not discuss tolerance, love, multi-cult harmony or acceptance of the 'Other'. Most of the remaining 75% simply demand obedience to Muhammad/Allah, explaining why Moslems can and should break contracts with the Infidel swine, and why the Bedouins who are pagans and don’t follow Muhammad, or who whine about the 'fine' or Zakat tax (given to poor Muslims only) and paid to Muhammad to distribute, will be tormented and destroyed.
Some of the more obvious and direct phrases of inducement to violence against the non-Muhammadan include:
14: Fight against them so that Allah will punish them by your hands and disgrace them and give you victory over them and heal the breasts of a believing people,
25: Truly Allah has given you victory on many battle fields, and on the Day of Hunain (battle) when you rejoiced at your great number but it availed you naught and the earth, vast as it is, was straitened for you, then you turned back in flight.
29: Fight against those who (1) believe not in Allah, (2) nor in the Last Day, (3) nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger (4) and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islam) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
39: If you march not forth, He will punish you with a painful torment and will replace you by another people, and you cannot harm Him at all, and Allah is Able to do all things.
44: Those who believe in Allah and the Last Day would not ask your leave to be exempted from fighting with their properties and their lives, and Allah is the All-Knower of Al-Muttaqun (the pious - see V.2:2).
63: Know they not that whoever opposes and shows hostility to Allah and His Messenger (SAW), certainly for him will be the Fire of Hell to abide therein. That is extreme disgrace.
101: And among the bedouins round about you, some are hypocrites, and so are some among the people of Al-Madinah, they exaggerate and persist in hypocrisy, you (O Muhammad SAW) know them not, We know them. We shall punish them twice, and thereafter they shall be brought back to a great (horrible) torment.
And on it goes. There is not one single sentence fragment which discusses ethics, spirituality, free-will, a respect for human life....nothing. It is a screed demanding war, Jihad, submission to the Muhammad idol, and a justification for the 'Allah tax' or Zakat, wrongly conflated by the large brains in the West with charity when it is simply a financial tool to keep the Umma strong and the expansion of the cult an on-going concern.
Sura 9 is either the first or second most important chapter in the Koran. Its call to supremacism, hate, Jihad and expansion must have an effect on Islamic and Moslem culture. How can Moslems read from this Sura and miss the irrational, free-will denying intent of this declamation? Obviously it would incite violence and intolerance in the more devout and fanatical who believe in the fantastical revelations of Muhammad.