There’s no need for vengeful punishments

THROUGHOUT its thousands of years of history, Islam has experienced many challenges from and confrontations with people of other faiths and political ideology. Islam has, however, remained resilient. It has prevailed despite all these challenges and threats to its existence.

As a religion of peace and compassion, it has always opted for peaceful resolutions to any conflicts. It has absorbed all nonviolent threats in like manner. There are many verses in the Quran that advocates for a peaceful solution only resorting to equal measures of violence when its existence is threatened, and only as a measure of last resort when efforts at peaceful settlement failed. It has met violence with violence but not to the point that seeks vengeance.