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Jews and Christians in the

Religion of the Fanatics

The fanatics' terrifying way of thinking,
that we have particularly seen in the context of

war and women, can also be observed in their
attitudes toward the People of the Book, Jews
and Christians. It is once again the fabricated
hadiths that have for years poisoned Muslim
societies that have harbored intense enmities
toward Christians and Jews. On account of
these false hadiths, related as if they were said
by the Prophet (pbuh) himself, Muslim com-
munities have ignored righteous Jews and
Christians, who are praised in the Qur'an, and
have lived in literal ignorance of the fact that

Jews and Christians must remain under the
protection of Muslims. On account of this mis-
taken way of thinking they have come to deny
those verses of the Qur'an in which sincere
Christians and Jews are described. In the view
of Islam, denying any verses of the Qur'an
means to abjure the faith, and they have even
managed to underestimate that.

This section discusses the true meaning of
verses of the Qur'an that the fanatics and some
opponents of Islam seek to use as evidence for

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