''I clearly see an agenda from ignorance here.'' Kam
The ignorance lies in cherry picking through history and its body of information, claiming legitimacy for this source material or verse over that material or verse because the former suits your agenda while the other does not.
The Meccan Surahs are less violent because they were written at a time when Mohammad wished to attract other religions, but upon being rejected he became ever more violent toward those who had rejected him, and that change in attitude is equally being expressed in later works, and the Quran.
The Meccan Surahs do not overide the Quran, nor are they all peaceful.
Please do not cherry pick.
An example of a so called 'peaceful' Meccan Surah:
Let us now consider verses from another, longer surah, also classified as “Meccan”, surah 74:
Surely, he reflected and determined (verse 18). May he be killed as he determined! (19).
Yes, may he be killed as he determined! (20)…
And We have set none but angels as wardens of the Fire (Hell). And We have fixed their number only as a trial for those who kafar (31a)…
God leaves in error whom He pleases and guides whom He pleases (34a).
In these verses the verb to kill occurs in the passive form; but it still stands as a clear (reiterated) call to carry it out. Indeed how will the kafarers here mentioned be killed? Whose task is this supposed to be? God Himself (as in surah 105)? Or, maybe, His subjected believers? Thus to classify this surah as “peaceful” (and therefore Meccan) is nothing short of taking people for fools.
