Understanding Quranic statements

Now days some Muslims around the World are using Qur’anic verses to justify their actions, be it violent, hateful or other ways to demean humanity. It is a free world and we can not watch all actions of individuals. This is a small minority, but they have succeeded in causing enough damage to humanity and Islam. May God save us from them…Amen.

While a certain characteristic have been condemned here in these verses about the Israelites, the underlying principle of the Quran is this is a warning and a lesson for the very Believers of the Quran- the Muslims. Repeatedly they are condemned in the Quran for having bad characters- called Munafiqoon. Also while this verse may refer to a particular characteristic of the Israelites, that Allah found unfavorable, in the broader context of the Quranic principle of non discrimination and accommodating all nations and creeds, repeatedly the Quran announces the friendliness and courteous relationship Muslims and People of the Book must foster as well as enumerates their merits in several other verses. One such highly cherished sociological ethos from the Quran that the Prophet up kept was intermarriage and eating of kosher. If this was a generalization that enjoyed a unique disposition of hatred in the psyche of every Muslim then such a law wouldn’t have existed and such a concept as ‘children of Abraham’ would have been null and void. But it’s a reality that we have to look at the broader picture the Quran presents when dealing with the various strains of religions and their issues during the time of revelation.