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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger

Responses from the

Qur'an to Those Who

Look to the Qur'an for

Enmity toward the

Jews

The Jews in particular, one of

the People of the Book, have for
years been at a loss to understand
some Muslims' hostility toward
them. They have imagined that
there must be such a command-

ment in the Qur'an and that the
Muslims in question are acting in
the light of that; some of them have
therefore always blamed Islam.
They are unaware that the Qur'an
actually curses people who are

inimical to the Jews.

There are two main allegations
that the Jews find being made
against them, that the Jews are
cursed and that they are compara-
ble to monkeys and pigs (surely
our Jewish brothers and sisters are

beyond that). The fanatics, in their
own minds, base these claims on
the Qur'an. Let us now look and see
what the Qur'an really says:

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