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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger

Radicals Seek to Hold on to "What They

Learned from Their Forefathers"

An extremist mentality has its own rights and wrongs, its

own list of forbidden (haram) and lawful (halal) things. Hun-
dreds of thousands of people who live by this extremist men-
tality unknowingly follow this wrong thinking. Their criteria
are not the commands of God, but instead the knowledge

passed down through generations and the rules they follow in
the name of religion. God sent down the Religion of Truth to
guide people who had strayed from the right path over time

to the real path of salvation, and to give the glad tidings that
this salvation is in fact very easy. However, for a radical, it is
unacceptable for religion to be easy, or for it to give people the
glad tidings of joy and happiness. This is because for the rad-

icals, religion takes away the joy of living, the energy and the
pleasures of people (true religion is surely above such
thoughts). For a radical, the more difficult a religion, the better

it is. They know that all people would easily and lovingly
practice religion if they understood how easy it is. However,
this would leave the radicals without their imagined status of
‘respectable, serious scholars.' Because of this, throughout his-

tory, radicals have always resisted the true religion sent down
by God, and have wanted instead to continue to follow the

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