&gt; no book of religion pushes people to grab a knife or a gun to harm others; crazy leaders do and unstable and uneducated people follow.<p>There are calls to violence for the sake of Islam in the Quran. These verses are among the last to be revealed and thereby are considered to overrule earlier verses (the concept of abrogation in Islam is known as &quot;naskh&quot;[2]). This is in stark contrast to Christianity, where Jesus abrogated the Old Covenant (i.e. the Jewish laws that contain most of the barbarism that people love to quote) with the New Covenant (hence the names). This view has been held in Christianity pretty much from its inception and is what the vast majority of Christians believe[3].<p>Two oft-cited examples from the Quran:<p>&gt;And when the sacred months have passed, then kill the polytheists wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they should repent, establish prayer, and give zakah, let them [go] on their way. Indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.[0]<p>&gt;Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture - [fight] until they give the jizyah willingly while they are humbled.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;quran.com&#x2F;9&#x2F;5" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;quran.com&#x2F;9&#x2F;5</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;quran.com&#x2F;9&#x2F;29" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;quran.com&#x2F;9&#x2F;29</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Naskh_%28tafsir%29" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Naskh_%28tafsir%29</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Christian_views_on_the_Old_Covenant" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Christian_views_on_the_Old_Cov...</a>