How do you explain the verse Bakara 191?

The Details of the Question
I have a foreigner friend. he said me about bakara 191. "And slay them wherever ye catch them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out; for tumult and oppression are worse than slaughter; but fight them not at the Sacred Mosque, unless they (first) fight you there; but if they fight you slay them. Such is the reward of those who suppress faith. " and he said in the Bible it says "if someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also" How can you explain this?
The Answer

Dear Brother / Sister,

In Matthew (5/39-40), “But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well” is present, but the following is also present in Matthew (10/34) “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword”
That verse in the Quran does not order violence; it orders that the mischievous people (people causing fitna) who are the source of violence, chaos and war be punished. It is necessary for the peace of the humanity that those people who disturb the peace of the community be purged from the community.
Fitna in Arabic means to put gold into the fire in order to remove the foreign matter in gold. It may also mean testing, trying, torture, misfortune, trouble, sin and disorder. To spread polytheism and atheism, to make someone convert from the religion, to transgress the prohibitions (harams) of Allah, to disturb the peace, to banish people from their countries are all kinds of fitna.  In the verse above, it means to torture in order to make someone convert from the true religion. Makkan polytheists had tortured some of the Companions of the Prophet in the haram (forbidden) months (the months in which fighting is prohibited); they could not bear the torture and they were martyred. That verse permitted the declaration of war in order to stop the torture because that kind of torture was more important than showing respect to haram months. Although the reason of the revelation is special, the decree is general because it expresses the comparison of fitna to killing. 
Man should avoid doing injustice to others; he should also try to prevent others from doing injustice. It is a duty.

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