Our Muslim friend is either ignorantly or deliberately mischaracterizing what is clearly said in the same Gospel to be
a parable (Luke 19:11-27) as though it is a direct command, so as to make our holy and pure religion seem as violent and filthy as his own. The unstated goal of this kind of behavior is to make Jesus more comparable to Muhammad in a way that both deals with Islam's violence and supports Islam's contention that Muhammad and Jesus are akin to one another as prophets of Allah (since in Islam all past prophets recognized by Islam are therefore preachers of Islam -- Jesus, or 'Isa as they call him, included):