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However, all religions

                                                        based on God's revela-
                                                         tions   adhere    to   a
                                                          monotheistic faith that
                                                          recognizes Him as sin-
                                                          gle and unique. In the
                                                          Qur'an (22: 34), God
                                                          states,  "Your God is

                                                         One God, so submit to
                                                        Him." To deny the su-
                                                       premacy of God and wor-
                                                    ship the idols of an ordinary
                                                  person, as the Buddhists do, is
                                              described in the Qur'an as to "associ-
                                    ate something with God." In hundreds of
                                       places in the Qur'an, God reminds us that


                                      Above: The Amida Buddha is one of the
                                      Buddhas that symbolizes limitless light,
                                      according to the superstitious
                                      Buddhist belief. This Buddha
                                      alone is enough to show how
                                      ignorant a religion Buddhism
                                      is.
                                      Left: A Japanese statue of the
                                      Buddhist deity called
                                      Avalokiteshvara.
















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