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Although the Holy Quran has named the Jews" The most hostile of men to the believers" and the Christians
" the nearest of them in love to the believers" , some elements and factors have caused the asperities and hostilities of the christians against Islam to be more extensive and more forceful that those of the Jews.
Yuhanna of Damascus is considered to be the first theologian who launched attacks the Quran and Islam in a systematic way and his ideas and views have been, since the 3 rd century AH. subjected to criticism and negation by the Moslem experts and men of learning.