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Jews and Christians (and, in earlier times, some others) are regarded as "People of the Book" (Bible), and were not forced to convert to Islam.

In early times, People of the Book were required to pay a poll-tax that did not apply to Muslims, but were otherwise free to practise their religions. Christians were not allowed to convert Muslims. Many rulers made the annual payment of the poll-tax as humiliating or degrading as possible. And there were, of course, episodes of real persecution by individual rulers in some areas, but this was not the norm.

By the twentieth century, the poll-tax had been abandoned and Jews and Christians were largely well-treated. There have been instances of Jews and Christians becoming Ministers in the governments of secular Muslim states.

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