Turn the Other Cheek: Islam

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I Think this is what people call bigotry!
No. This is bigotry:

Quran sura 5.51: “O ye who believe! take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors; they are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. Verily Allah guideth not a people unjust.”
 
I am not a theologian, and won’t comment on whether I have an obligation to turn the other cheek in all circumstances, even if it means my death.

But one thing’s for sure, I have no moral obligation, nor right, to turn the cheek of another. I have every right to lay down my life before injustice or viciousness, but I have no right at all to lay down the life of another person. Indeed, I have a moral obligation to protect that life. I have a moral obligation to resist injustice done to another. So an absolute pacifism is not part of Christianity.
 
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