By Husam Dughman
One of the major social, cultural, and religious phenomena of modern and contemporary times is the overwhelming antipathy numerous Islamists feel towards non-Muslims, including Christians and Jews. In spite of the fact that, like Islam, religions such as Christianity and Judaism are Abrahamic religions and share much with Islam, they are nevertheless to this day considered by many Islamists to be kuffar, or infidels. Although Islam regards both Jews and Christians as ahlu al-kitab, or People of the Book, numerous Islamists still dismiss them as impure, i.e., corrupted by ungodly influences. Islamists, as well as many non-Islamist Muslims, generally claim that both Christians and Jews are not true believers because they have strayed from al-siratu almustaqeem, or the Straight Path (of righteousness). There are different reasons for this belief.
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