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Did MOSES (peace be upon him) PROMULGATE TERRORISM and VIOLENCE?

Did you know that in Deuteronomy, the fifth book of the Torah, Moses shares this message from God as the Israelites prepare to enter the Promised Land: "I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy."

"When the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you.  And when the Lord your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, destroy them utterly.  Make no covenant with them and show no favor to them" (Deuteronomy 7:1-2).

"When you approach a city to fight it, offer it terms of peace.  If it agrees to make peace with you and opens to you, all the people found in it shall become your forced labor and shall serve you.  However, if it does not make peace with you, but makes war against you, besiege it.  When the Lord your God gives it into your hand, kill all the men in it.  Take as booty only the women, children, animals, and all that is in the city, all its spoils.  Use the spoils of your enemies which the Lord your God has given you... Only in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.  Do not leave alive anything that breathes" (Deuteronomy 20:10-17).

"Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man intimately.  But spare for yourselves all virgin maidens" (Numbers 31:17-18).

"I will send my terror in front of you... you shall utterly demolish them and break their pillars in pieces" (Exodus 23: 23-24, 27).  

Did Jesus (peace be upon him) ADVOCATE TERRORISM and VIOLENCE?
The New Testament attributes the following statements to Jesus:

"I say to you that to everyone who has, more shall be given, but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away.  As for my enemies who do not want me to reign over them, bring them here and kill them in my presence" (Luke 19:26-27).

"Do not think that I have come to send peace on Earth.  I did not come to send peace, but a sword.  I am sent to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law" (Matthew 10:34-35).

There are dozens of other verses that, if taken out from their historical context, seem to favor violence.  Various violent Jewish and Christian groups have used them to justify their causes.  The Crusaders used them against Muslims and Jews.  The Nazis used them against Jews.  Christian Serbians used them against Muslim Bosnians, and Zionists regularly use them against Palestinians.  David Koresh, Jim Jones, and Baruch Goldstein all relied on religious texts to justify their violence.

In recent times some have quoted, out of context similar verses from the Holy Quraan, the last revelation to humanity from God to try and make the point that Islaam advocates terrorism and violence.  Muslims do not condemn all Christians and Jews on the bases of the above quotation and from the old and new Testament or at the acts of the Crusaders, the Nazis, the Christian Serbians, David Koresh, Jim Jones and Baruch Goldstein, nor do Muslims interpret Christianity or Judaism as religions of terrorists!

Without exception such verses from the Old and New Testament and the Holy Quraan promulgate defensive action against acts of terrorism. 

Islaam has been and always will be a way of life which promotes unassailable peace and harmony with all creation of Allaah.