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"If Europe opens the gates to Muslims, Europe will became a Muslim territory".

There are many caveats to this. For example, the US absorbs so many immigrants of different religions that it's guaranteed to stay secular.

"In Qur'an it is said that anyone that does not believe in Ala, Christians and Jews should be killed"

I have been ignorant of Islam. But, if this is true, is the Qur'an not hate speech ?

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It seems that most of the time people point verses 2:190-194 as example, but frankly, they only tell to "fight those who fight you" [1].

However, in practice apparently some leeway in definition of what constitutes an attack on believers and reasonable retribution is used to justify things going on in Syria and, recently, in Europe. Or maybe they just don't care that much. It's not like medieval Europe followed the Gospels to the letter. The whole discussion is pretty academic.

[1] http://www.islamicstudies.info/tafheem.php?sura=2&verse=189

Indeed, a lot of people are put into asylums for things lighter than that. You tend to get away with it if it is your 'religion' and is backed by a lot of people.

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