The Quran contains at least 109 verses that call Muslims to war with nonbelievers for the sake of Islamic rule. Some are quite graphic, with commands to chop off heads and fingers and kill infidels wherever they may be hiding. Muslims who do not join the fight are called 'hypocrites' and warned that Allah will send them to Hell if they do not join the slaughter.
If man says: No god, it means: he blasphemes, but if he complete the sentence: No god but God alone without associate, the meaning will be obvious.
So you cannot strip the phrases and take that as a pretext.
Of course God commanded the Prophet and the believers to fight, but to every situation was its condition.
"The messenger of God summoned his people by admonishing and by kind words and by forbearance towards them; that is His saying-be exalted- in the Quran 16: 125, which means:
( [O Mohammed,] preach to the way of your Lord with wisdom and fair exhortation, and reason with them in better [ways and words than theirs,] for surely, your Lord knows best those who stray from His way, as does He know best those who [may] accept guidance.)
[It means: Deal with them by your good conduct and easiness, and reason with them by words better than their words, and God knows who among them is liable to convert, so He will guide him to the Islam.]
God said-be exalted- in the Quran 41: 34, which means:
(Not equal is [the rewarding of people for] the good conduct, nor is the evil [conduct in requital by them]; then [O Mohammed] repel [the evil conduct] with a better [conduct], then one –between whom and you is enmity –[will become] as it were your friend [and] intimate.)
But those of his people who were associaters idolaters) hurt him and mocked at him, and even they intended to kill him, but God saved him from their hands. Moreover, they hurt his comrades, beat them, tormented them with fire and cautery and killed some of them.
While Mohammed - peace be on him - was patiently forbearing their harm; so that he did not fight them while he was resident in Mecca, but when he migrated to Medina (i.e. Yathrib), then at that time God ordered him to fight the idolaters, so he fought them; that is His saying-be exalted- in the Quran 2: 190- 191, which mean:
(Fight in the way of God against those who fight against you, but begin not hostilities. God does not love aggressors.
And slay them wherever you catch them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out, for ‘seducing [people]’ is worse than slaughter; but fight them not at the Inviolable [Sacred] Mosque [at Mecca], unless they [first] fight you there; but if they fight you, slay them. Such is the reward of those who unbelieve.)
God-be exalted- said in the Quran 9: 36, which means:
(And wage war* on all the associaters **even as they are waging war on all of you. And
Know that God is with those who ward off [His punishment.])
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[*I.e. fight them with as much as you have of power and ability.
** I.e. the idolaters who associate their idols with God in worship (i.e. the polytheists.) ]
The interpreter said: Truly, Mohammed-peace be on him- fought the idolaters who hurt and denied him, but we should know that Moses had ordered the Children of Israel to fight the Chanaanites, and take in possession their homes and wealth, whereas they had not hurt nor fought him; but only that they were associaters (or idolaters) worshipping idols.
Likewise, David fought the idolaters, and there were other prophets and apostles who fought the associaters or idolaters; and that was with God’s command; because God-be exalted- hates associaters and idolaters, and get angry with them, and gives [to their enemies] power over them, to humiliate them by killing and taking them captives and taking their wealth in possession."
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