Moderate Muslims may even go so far as to accommodate adherents of all faiths as being believers; I however, am an atheist, a disbeliever, a 'kuffar' by definition. Hence, the following verses are certainly applicable to me.
In order to avoid inviting any hate mails (or worse), I am not going to comment on any of the following verses. The translations cited below are of the respected Pickthall version. If that does not suit the reader's fancy, each of the verses are linked to the excellent quran.com that has various other versions of translations and transliterations of Quranic verses, so that I am not accused of misinterpreting the text. The website also allows for easy browsing of the chapter its taken from so that I am not accused of taking a verse out of context.
Finally, it is a fact that the Quran devotes more verses to what horrors await a disbeliever post judgement day, than it devotes to any other single topic. I am not perturbed by these verses and hence will not be listing them below. I am only bothered about those views it advocates for its adherents that will affect their interaction with me in this temporal world.
3:28 Let not the believers take disbelievers for their friends in preference to believers. Whoso doeth that hath no connection with Allah unless (it be) that ye but guard yourselves against them, taking (as it were) security. Allah biddeth you beware (only) of Himself. Unto Allah is the journeying.
3:118 O ye who believe! Take not for intimates others than your own folk, who would spare no pains to ruin you; they love to hamper you. Hatred is revealed by (the utterance of) their mouths, but that which their breasts hide is greater. We have made plain for you the revelations if ye will understand.
3:149 O ye who believe! if ye obey those who disbelieve, they will make you turn back on your heels, and ye turn back as losers.
4:89 They long that ye should disbelieve even as they disbelieve, that ye may be upon a level (with them). So choose not friends from them till they forsake their homes in the way of Allah; if they turn back (to enmity) then take them and kill them wherever ye find them, and choose no friend nor helper from among them,
4:101 And when ye go forth in the land, it is no sin for you to curtail (your) worship if ye fear that those who disbelieve may attack you. In truth the disbelievers are an open enemy to you.
4:144 O ye who believe! Choose not disbelievers for (your) friends in place of believers. Would ye give Allah a clear warrant against you ?
5:80 Thou seest many of them making friends with those who disbelieve. Surely ill for them is that which they themselves send on before them: that Allah will be wroth with them and in the doom they will abide.
9:23 O ye who believe! Choose not your fathers nor your brethren for friends if they take pleasure in disbelief rather than faith. Whoso of you taketh them for friends, such are wrong-doers.
9:73 O Prophet! Strive against the disbelievers and the hypocrites! Be harsh with them. Their ultimate abode is hell, a hapless journey's end.
9:84 And never (O Muhammad) pray for one of them who dieth, nor stand by his grave. Lo! they disbelieved in Allah and His messenger, and they died while they were evil-doers.
9:123 O ye who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you, and let them find harshness in you, and know that Allah is with those who keep their duty (unto Him).
25:52 So obey not the disbelievers, but strive against them herewith with a great endeavour.66:9 O Prophet! Strive against the disbelievers and the hypocrites, and be stern with them. Hell will be their home, a hapless journey's end.
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