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\u201cBelievers, Jews, Christians and Sabaeans\u2014all those who believe in God and the Last Day and do what is right\u2014shall be rewarded by their Lord; they shall have nothing to fear or to regret<\/span>\u201d (Qur\u2019an 2:62<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I post this in particular because of a discussion on another blog<\/a> where someone spoke from their assumption that all religions are as inherently exclusivistic as fundamentalist Christianity<\/a>. Islam<\/a>, for one, has an acceptance of at least some other religious traditions explicitly built in to its very Scriptures<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBelievers, Jews, Christians and Sabaeans\u2014all those who believe in God and the Last Day and do what is right\u2014shall be rewarded by their Lord; they shall have nothing to fear or to regret\u201d (Qur\u2019an 2:62). 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