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The answer is that almost all the above paraphrases have been take out of context and distorted. Time is short, so I'll give you only one example:

Quran tells Muslims to kill the disbelievers wherever they find them (Q. 2:191)

Here, on the other hand, is what the sura al-Baqarah actually says:

2:190 Fight in the way of Allah against those who fight against you, but begin not hostilities. Lo! Allah loveth not aggressors.

2:191 And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter. And fight not with them at the Inviolable Place of Worship until they first attack you there, but if they attack you (there) then slay them. Such is the reward of disbelievers.

2:192 But if they desist, then lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

2:193 And fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah. But if they desist, then let there be no hostility except against wrong-doers.

I don't think anyone on Free Republic would disagree with the above.