"He has adopted and maintains a lifestyle that is totally contrary to the will of God as declared in the written word of God, " said the Rev George Curry, chairman of the Church Society, an evangelical grouping within the Church of England.

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In a televised address, Sheik Abd-al-Rahman al-Sudays, imam of the Mosque of Mecca, declared that God turned Jews into "pigs and monkeys, " condemned the "poisonous culture and rotten ideas" of the West, and trashed Hinduism.

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He declared: "God is great" on the way.

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But Iran's Shiite Muslim ruling ayatollahs regard the faith as blasphemous because its founder, Bahaullah, declared himself to be a prophet of God.

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