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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger

Muslims Are Obliged To Protect

Churches and Synagogues; It Is a Sin

To Attack Places of Worship

Churches, synagogues and mosques are places where people

worship God. It is a terrible crime in the Sight of God to murder
innocent people in churches, synagogues or mosques as they wor-
ship God. The people who go to these places are pious people who
pray to God, and all the houses where God is praised are sacred to
the religion of Islam. The visitors of these houses may be Jews, Chris-

tians or Muslims. The important thing is that they all believe in God
and they are all pious. Muslims should respect the sacred places of
the People of the Book where they worship God and must protect
these temples. It doesn't matter if those places belong to Christians
or Jews. These places are precious and sacred for Muslims too,
because God is praised in them, and for this reason these places must

be protected by all believers. Muslims should never allow anyone to
harm churches or synagogues or for them to be converted to other
venues and must, before anyone else, work to ensure that these

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