Re: Islamic state and tolerance...
Well, I've looked it up in my translation and the translation is: 'To you be your Way, And to me mine.'
The explanation: "I having been given the Truth, cannot come to your false ways: you, having your vested interests, will not give them up. For your ways the responsibility is yours: I have shown you the Truth. Your persecutions will be vain: the Truth must prevail in the end. This was the attitude of Faith then: But is true for all time. Hold fast to Truth, "in scorn of consequence".
It just says that the responsibility after hearing about the True message is with that person and not with the Prophet who has performed the duty of showing the Truth.
It 'doesn't say something like 'we have to destroy you now because you won't accept Islam, but want us to mix Islam with your religion'.
This situation is just like today in the western world. We are asked to 'change' Islam to the taste of the non-muslims in whose countries we're living.
I think we should leave it to Allah after having told them the truth and only fight them if they attack us.
Also if we were supposed to fight and force Islam upon the non-Muslims and if we weren't allowed at all to live alongside them, why do we have aya's with rules on how to deal with living either in a non-Islamic country or living side by side non-Muslims in an Islamic country?