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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger

quality if he puts them on clean every day and treats them with
care. Someone may not share another's ideas, but he will be high
quality if he respects that other person's ideas and treats them with
affection. Behavior is one of the most important ways of determin-
ing someone's quality; someone who cannot bear filth, avaricious-
ness or low quality behavior is already a person of naturally high

quality. Someone who speaks well, praises beauty, who takes
every opportunity to recognize the superior nature of science and
elegance, and who naturally values the other party is a high-quali-
ty person.

All these attributes that require quality have, to a large extent,
been forgotten in Islamic societies; the reason for that is the main
error into which these communities have fallen: that they have

abandoned the Qur'an. Societies have emerged that value quantity
over quality, hatred over love and filth and carelessness over clean-
liness and good grooming. The only cure for this peculiar affliction
is the Qur'an. One of the most urgent matters at the moment is to

show the societies in question the superior quality of the Muslim,
with supporting evidence from the Qur'an. So long as no evidence
is produced from the Qur'an, the communities in question will con-
tinue to turn away from democracy, to be communities of anger, to
spread lack of quality and to attach no importance to art and clean-
liness. This is a scourge that is increasing by the day.

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