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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger

Allegations Prohibiting Women from Adorning
Themselves

God curses those ladies who practice tattooing

and those who get themselves tattooed, and
those ladies who remove the hair from their

faces and those who make artificial spaces
between their teeth in order to look more beau-

tiful… (Sahih Bukhari, Book 60, Hadith 408)

Ibn Umar reported God's Messenger (pbuh)
cursing the woman who added false hair and

the woman who asked for tattoos. (Sahih
Muslim, Book 24, Hadith 5300)

The Apostle of God (pbuh) forbade ten
things: Sharpening the ends of the teeth,

tattooing, plucking hair, ... (Sunan Abu
Dawud, Book 32, Hadith 4038)

The main ideas behind the fanatical mindset that seeks to por-
tray women as repulsive, ugly, ill-groomed and second-class citizens
stem from these false hadiths. This appearance that fanatics have
imposed on women under the name of religion has led to them being
regarded as ill-groomed and even no longer human and devoid of

beauty, cleanliness and fine speech.

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