The Quran has no qualms about presenting a God threatning, nay promising, eternal hell to those who committ ‘zulm’ (oppression, harm, injustice, covering up truth, ingratitude, lying, giving indepdent reality to things and self and not as, entirely, signs glorifying the sustainer and creator and so on). His threat is made credible, and to those it may apply, they stand to receive eternal and unimaginable pain. This, for those who claim to believe the claims of the Quran to be true and meaningful, poses no problem (or, as I see it, many pretend that it doesnt). Some claim to not have a problem with God letting people be led astray by their teachers and scholars, no problem with claims about whole people destroyed (not just bad individuals in those places) because of the evil actions of some among them and so on.
Why do I say pretend? Because I see the same people unwilling to accept that, in order to discourage and deter otherwise unrelenting and unaccountable oppression, one should threaten grave consequences, as a representative of this god on earth even when those consequences, at worst, might lead to some unintentional harm to a few (and the harm would be to lose a few years of life in this. lower realm, not eternal hell).
I dont think such folks see justice and mercy in the existence of hell or in the threats by God to all people who pick up the quran to read it, regardless of their language and culture, of hell for not finding safety with God but instead trying to find it elsewhere. they don’t see the god of the quran as just and merciful, regardless of what they may say. because if they did see justice and mercy in the threats of eternal hell, a place that is NEVER to be chosen, is NEVER ok for human souls to be in, they would see the justice and mercy in threatening an oppressor with grave consequences to make him stop his oppression.
When oppression is underway or being done, the concept of “indiscriminate” does not apply to the threat of grave consquences (that may spill to those not intended as targets of the deterrant action being threatened). To fear the unintended and inevitable spillover of harm done to deter oppression to the extent that one does nothing to meaningfully and materially to deter or stop the aggression is to rebel against accountabiity, to confuse how moral responsibility is assigned by divinely decreed reason, denies mercy to the victims of the indiscrimimate and unprovoked occupation/oppression and covers up and denies divine justice. The oppressor must be overwhelmed, as threats of hell should mercifully do, by fear of comitting oppression that his lesser self is urging him to do for some passing and misguided gain (such as finding eternal safety, free of all harm, in a promised land in this lower realm and trying to build such a land on the corpses of innocent people). As servants of such a one, those who aim that his names be manifested and glorified, those who are not looking to morally elevate a ‘we’ over ‘they’ to impress others to warm to ‘us’, one must likewise threaten a consequence to the oppressor that goes beyond his existing capacity to withstand (if i show a knife as deterance to an ‘oppressor’ (not some neutral person) with a gun, i am not deterring him within reason and mercy..i may even be encouraging him to continue and expand his oppression). deterance has to be materially balanced in a world that is material in order for mercy and justice to manifest and not be subverted. if someone can threaten an oppressor with a gun, with an equally powerful gun in order to encourage and call them to stop their oppression, they are within mercy, justice and reason to do so. should they surrender this mercy, reason and justice to its sources, they woud have acted as surrenderers and if they did it in their own name, they wouldn’t have surrendered anything to anyone. it is not the ethics of a situation that reason is introduced to by revelation. reason understands what is or isn’t just or merciful in a situation. revelation does not violate reason (and when it does, its either poor reasoning or its not revelation) it is the divine meaning of things that revelation brings to reason and makes it aware of the outcome of seeing the divine meaning (sign) and outcome for failing to see the divine meaning/face glorified in that thing or situation.
The Quran as Revelation 