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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger

The Just Behavior of Muslims toward

the People of the Book

God does not forbid you from being good

to those who have not fought you in the
religion or driven you from your homes,

or from being just towards them. God

loves those who are just. (Qur'an, 60:8)

As we have just seen, people who strive against believers, make

difficulties for them and try to kill them or exile them from their
lands, no matter which community they may emanate from, Jewish,
Christian or Muslim, are despised in the Qur'an. Muslims have a
responsibility to treat everyone else, those who are not wicked in
other words, justly. Justice may sometimes require a person
to act against his own interests but maintain-

ing justice, even if it works against one, is
nonetheless a great virtue.
Muslims cling to that
virtue as a commandment

from God. This responsi-
bility is set out as follows
in another verse:

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