Islamic writings, their most sacred and core text, the Quran, notes that Allah doesn’t like aggressors!
A sign of peace?
No, for it says this only to counteract by witchcraft and contradiction the previous statement to fight against those who fight against you.
What have we attained? A cover up of the truth that violence is promoted!
It is a strategy of maintaining a cover of etiquette when on the inside there is the deepest form of belligerence.
Further, it is not a command to fight to the point of safety, but to the extreme of stopping persecution and to the point of coercing others to profess Allah.