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 | | According to many traditions, Muhammad himself was determined to destroy Christian churches.(4) Lane, in his classic Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, recounts how a young Muslim “receives lessons of religious pride, and learns to hate the Christians, and all other sects but his own, as thoroughly as does the Muslim in advanced age.”(5) |
 | | According to the Koran, Jews have intense hatred of all true Muslims, and, as a punishment for their sins, some of them had, in the past, been changed into apes and swine, and others will have their hands tied to their necks and be cast into the Fire on Judgment Day. |
 | | In 624, Muhammad either commanded or approved of, and certainly did not punish, the assassination of two pagan poets—one an old man and the other a woman with an infant at her breast—for having written satirical verses about Him. |
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