Let me share a formula that I have discovered in Quran about most of the verses about justice. I hope this gives you confidence about Quran and its wisdom, you can apply this to any verse, provided you read three verses before and three verses after the given verse. Take a look at the 2nd part of item 5, it sounds bad, but if you read the first part and 2nd, it makes sense.
1. You mind your own business
2. Someone throws you out of your own space and seeks to destroy you.
3. You ask them to back off
4. If they still come after you, you hit them back in self-defense.
5. If they do not stop, you chase them and shoot them wherever you find them
6. But if they seek to retrieve, you let them
7. The Ultimate goal of Islam is peace, harmony and cohesive societies, most people get this right and a few don’t, and that is the case with every faith and everything in life.
Items 1-5 is universal law, indeed it is the American law. Quran takes you a step further.
Here are some of the articles/compilations in this site, there are more items buried within the articles.
Slay the Idolaters, wherever you find them, Sura Tauba 9
http://quraan-today.blogspot.com/2007/12/slay-idolaters-95.html
Muslim response to Dutch legislators lies about Quran
http://quraan-today.blogspot.com/2008/03/wilders-fitna-and-muslims_30.html
Free will and Jiziyah 9:29
http://quraan-today.blogspot.com/2010/03/quraan-2256-free-will-v-929-compulsion.html
If you get a chance read “Mission of World Muslim Congress” at www.WorldMuslimCongress.com and now I am adding American Muslim Agenda to it.
Jazak Allah Khair
Mike Ghouse is a Muslim speaker, thinker and a writer, and presides over the World Muslim congress, a think tank, and a forum with the express goals of nurturing pluralistic values embedded in Islam to build cohesive societies. More about Mike at www.Mikeghouse.net