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hostility toward the People of the Book in Islam, as well as the fab-
ricated hadiths that are the real cause of the enmity toward Jews and
Christians that has been encouraged down the years. We also need
to remember the following very important fact; Christianity and
Judaism are true faiths that were sent down before Islam, and
according to the Qur'an, all Muslims have a responsibility to accept
all the true faiths and true prophets. One verse states:

Say, "We have faith in God and what has been sent down to us
and what was sent down to Abraham and Ishma'el and Isaac and
Jacob and the Tribes, and what Moses and Jesus were given, and
what all the prophets were given by their Lord. We do not differ-
entiate between any of them." (Qur'an, 2:136)
There is no doubt that these true faiths have gradually been
misinterpreted by fanatical mindsets, and that this distortion has
been extended to the sacred scriptures themselves. However, when

we look at the Qur'an, which will remain uncorrupted until the Day
of Reckoning, we understand that we must believe in Christianity
and Judaism in their first and original forms, and act accordingly.

Some Muslim communities that still harbor policies of enmity
of frightening dimensions toward Christians and Jews, despite the
above verse and other verses of the Qur'an that praise the People of
the Book, are representatives of this fabricated fanatical faith, not of
the Islam of the Qur'an.

Some people fall into this error knowingly, and others unknow-
ingly. The purpose of this book is to warn those who do fall into this
error and to show them the way to be saved from it, and to show
some opponents of Islam that the religion they are against is not the
true Islam.

In contrast to all the claims made by the fanatics, the Qur'an
curses enmity toward the People of the Book and advises love for
them. Let us now look at the evidence for this:

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