On another thread, we learned that the Koran describes non-believers in mostly negative ways but there has been some controversy by Muslim apologists over whether the Koran actually has more hateful passages towards non-Muslims than 'loving' or kind passages towards the Kuffar.
So, I thought I would examine the counter claims made on this thread.
Basically, to determine if the Koran contains more negative verses regarding non-believers than it does positive, I will post a negative verse from the Koran and an apologist will match it with a positive passage.
I'll start with one negative verse and see if the Koran has at least one positive passage to say about non-believers:
5:051 O believers, take not Jews and Christians as friends; they are friends of each other. Whoso of you makes them his friends is one of them. God guides not the people of the evildoers.
As for criteria, I would say a passage qualifies if it generalizes non-Muslims - for example, the 'clear' Koran will simply level a charge against Christians, Jews or Pagans without specifying if they were a group of Christians, Jews or Pagans or all Christians, Jews and Pagans.
Obviously, such passages are blanket generalizations and should be condemned as incitement if the message is negative.
Another qualification is if the passage in question expresses disapproval of an individual in some way, even partly, because the individual is a non-believer.
A Muslim apologist seemed to have had an issue over including passages that talk of sending non-believers to hell for torture as being intolerant. I would personally include passages that talk of sending non-believers to hell because they commit shirk or do not take Muhammad as a prophet as being intolerant and would put them in the same category as passages that spread slander, intolerance, hatred of non-Muslims or instruct Muslims to harm non-Muslims because of their status as being non-Muslims.