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I also have a sister who is a Christian. I even have an uncle who is an "Araba", if you know what that title means in traditional idol worship. They know my red lines. Yet out of all of us in the family, they are closer to me than anyone else, and I have been of more benefit to them in their lives. Part of the jokes my sister cracks at family gatherings is calling me "Alfa Tirimithiyu" because she says I am quick to quote Hadith lol. That is by the way, though. Still, none of them will ever ask me to step over my faith's boundaries, because respect goes both ways. Nobody is asking Yorubas to fight their relatives over religion. The lines in Islam are not blurry, so stop trying to blur them in the name of culture.  Look at how wide the door of family kindness is: you can visit your non-Muslim siblings at home, send them money, pay their school fees and bills, buy them gifts, attend their weddings and naming receptions, sit and eat together at family gatherings, care for them in the hospital when they are sick, help them build their businesses, shelter them, defend them from injustice, and stand by them when life gets hard. The list is infinitely uncountable. Compared to all of that, what you cannot do is very small: do not sit inside their church service, do not pray in Jesus's name, do not join traditional shrine festivals, and do not participate in any act of worship that contradicts Tawheed. Simple. So ask yourself, why do people ignore the ninety-nine lawful ways to love their family and hang onto the one forbidden line of shirk just to call it "tolerance"? It is now obvious Shaitan is hiding behind that word. Just like he promised in the Quran to ambush human beings from their front, back, right, and left, he now dresses up compromise as love and family peace. I pray the Almighty counts us among His protected servants who see through the traps and whispers of Shaitan. Allah knows best.