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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger
Hadiths and Claims Fabricated to
Debase Women
A pious woman among other women is like
unto a raven marked with a white leg.
(Nahj al-Fasahah, p. 20)
One out of 99 women is in paradise, the
rest are in hell. (Sahih Bukhari)
O womenfolk, you should give charity and
ask much forgiveness for I saw you in bulk
amongst the dwellers of hell... (Sahih Mus-
lim, Book 1, Hadith 142)
The false hadiths in question make it clear how women are belit-
tled and regarded as second-class citizens in societies made up of
fanatics. Following the fabrication of these hadiths, some Islamic
communities turned into societies of fear and fanaticism that
despised and belittled women and shut them up indoors. Women
being regarded as second-class citizens led to communities develop-
ing a terrible lack of civilization, cultural deformities, lack of taste
and emptiness; the representatives of that fanatic mentality never
grew or developed. Many countries in the Middle East today are in
the middle of that cultural deformity and lack of quality produced
by that terrifying perspective. Yet the religion in the Qur'an is lovely,
plain, high-quality and peaceable.
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