It is not the same whether you forewarn them [the unbelievers] they will have no faith (2:6).
God will mock them and keep them long in sin, blundering blindly along (2:15).
A fire “whose fuel is men and stones” awaits them (2:24).
They will be “rewarded with disgrace in this world and with grievous punishment on the Day of Resurrection” (2:85).
“God’s curse be upon the infidels!” (2:89).
“They have incurred God’s most inexorable wrath. An ignominous punishment awaits [them]” (2:90).
“God is the enemy of the unbelievers” (2:98).
“Th unbelievers among People of the Book [Christians and Jews], and the pagans, resent that any blessing should have been sent down to you from your Lord” (2:105)
“They shall be held up to shame in this world and sternly punished in the hereafter” (2:114)
“Those to whom We [God] have given the Book, and who read it as it ought to be read, truly believe in it; those that deny it shall assuredly be lost” (2:122)
“[We] shall let them live awhile, and drag them to the scourge of the Fire. Evil shall be their fate” (2:126).
“The East and West are God’s. He guides whom He will to a straight path” (2:142).
“Do not say those who are slain in the cause of God are dead. They are alive, but you are not aware of them” (2:154).
“But the infidels who die unbelievers shall incur the curse of God, the angels, and all men. Under it they shall remain for ever; their punishment shall not be lightened, nor shall they be reprieved” (2:162).
“They shall sigh with remorse, but they shall never come out of the Fire” (2:168).
“The unbelievers are like beasts which, call out to them as much as one may, can hear nothing but a shout and a cry. Deaf, dumb, and blind, they understand nothing” (2:172).
“Theirs shall be a woeful punishment” (2:175).
“How steadfastly they seek the Fire! That is because God has revealed the Book with truth; those that disagree about it are in extreme schism” (2:176)
“Slay them wherever you find them. Drive them out of the places from which they drove you, Idolatry is worse than the carnage… [I]f they attack you put them to the sword. Thus shall be the unbelievers rewarded: but if they desist, God is forgiving and merciful. Fight against them until idolatry is no more and God’s religion reigns supreme. But if they desist, fight none except the evildoers” (2:190-93)
I was having a discussion about this the other day, and the “religion of peace” and “religion of tolerance” cards came up again. Really? I mean… REALLY?