"This is hardly a religion of comfortable accommodation with sin and evil.

To say Allāhu akbar while preferring one's own opinions and desires is to invite the charge of hypocrisy. For Muhammad, the rejection, not acceptance, of violent struggle would have denied God's supremacy. Is peace, even tainted with widespread justice, preferable to justice secured through some limited violence? Muhammad was never seduced by such over-refined but coward hypocrisy that insinuates a devious justification for lapsing from the rigours of authentic idealism. 

--Shabbir Akhtar, Islam as Political Religion: The future of an imperial faith (New York: Routledge, 2011), p. 104.