Page 134 - Bigotry: The Dark Danger

Bigotry:
The Dark Danger

Understanding the Limits of the

Fanatical Mindset

Some Westerners who criticize the fanatical mindset are gen-
erally unaware of the bounds of that mentality. The rules of this
religion developed on the basis of false sayings, false teachers and
superstition are far more terrifying than they imagine. The signs of

a radical's extremism are not limited to his strapping on a bomb
and blowing himself up. A terrifying mentality reveals itself at
every moment of a radical's life. Everything is redolent with dark-
ness, from the environment he lives in to his family life, from his
opinion of women to his views of all living things and from his
conception of cleanliness to his idea of happiness.

In demonstrating this perspective, we shall be presenting the
false hadiths that inspire radicals and responding to them with
verses from the Qur'an. That is in order to show the source of rad-
icalism and that it has nothing to do with Islam. Let us start with a
reminder we shall be repeating at every stage; none of the super-
stition we shall be examining here actually appears in the

Qur'an: The false hadiths and practices in question are the dia-
metric opposite of the content and spirit of the Qur'an. They con-
flict with the Qur'an, and therefore are not part of Islam and
these fabrications have always harmed Muslims. For that reason,

they need to be explicitly exposed in order to establish the pre-
cautions that can be taken against this menace.

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