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Although this verse illustrates the particular enmity that some orthodox Muslims have for Christians and Jews, philosophically the hostility it not unlike that some orthodox Christians had (and still have) for Jews. The theory was that among the more primitive people a certain “ignorance” was tolerable, but “People of the Book” were not ignorant but actually rejected the word of Muhammed or in the case of the Jews vis a vis the Christians, they rejected the word of Christ. The hate message is preached within some Christian circles about Jews and Muslims today, but the overt, visible, statement in the midst of the holiest of Scripture makes the Koranic version even more socially and ethically difficult in a pluralistic society.
Each day of WWII, 18,000 American servicemen were incapacitated by Venereal Disease --- more than by battle wounds on most days. This prevention poster appeared in Army bases throughout the world from 1942-1944. The “Three” were Hitler, Hirohito, and a skeletal “woman of the evening”. This was a shocking poster for many servicemen (and civilians) as the WWII attitudes were such that for the vast majority of Americans, nothing would be worse than Hitler and Hirohito.
