Qutb

I find this whole idea of fighting for God very interesting. It just seems so different from any views that I have of God. Here in America we are always told that God loves us all and that he’d never really want us to kill any other individual. But in this reading Qutb talks about how the Quran seems to be encouraging it. If someone doesn’t believe the same thing as you, you shouldn’t feel like you have to force them to convert to your views, and then if they don’t accept to go to war with them. I would think that God wouldn’t really want war. Why God want to kill those who could be good people morally, just disagree with your religious views. It is as if Qutb is attempting to force everyone in the entire world to convert to Islam, or risk death. These views that Qutb holds are very dangerous in today’s world. I know that not all Muslims hold these same interpretations of the Quran because I’ve asked my Muslim friend, and it seems when certain Muslims start to interpret the Quran this way there are not many positive outcomes. Clearly it is under these circumstances that things like terrorist attacks occur. I do not think that it would make sense for God take away the lives of innocent people. Even if someone argued that these people were not innocent because they are “non-believers,” it still does not seem just, when these people being attacked are morally good.