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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger
and eat food prepared
by the People of the
Book, Jews and Chris-
tians; it was forbid-
den to marry women
from or eat food cooked by
the Magians and Sabaeans,
and also the polytheists.
As we have already
seen, our Prophet
(pbuh) was forced
to migrate to
Medina under
severe pres-
sure from the
polytheists and
from the very first
days of the emigra-
tion, he established
a bond of brother-
hood between the
Ansar (the helpers,
the Muslims of Medina)
and the Muhajir (the
emigrants, the Muslims
who had migrated from
Mecca to Medina). He
signed numerous agree-
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