Saudi peninsula prior to Muhammad’s rise. Basically, the entire Saudi peninsula was ringed with Jewish or Christian tribes.”1 The present hostility of some Muslims toward Jews and Christians becomes easier to understand when one reads in the Qur’an material ranging from expressions of indulgence toward Jews and Christian to a curse upon Jewish sabbath breakers, turning them to apes, commands to avoid friendship with Jews and Christians, and statements that Jews are most hostile to Muslims,
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