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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger

made part of Islam by the fanatical mindset. They have spread
and imposed that mindset, which is not in the Qur'an and which
is cursed by God, in the name of the faith. Most Islamic communities,
and even most women who have been indoctrinated in these Islamic
communities, simply cannot comprehend any other way of thinking.
That is one of the worst scourges that the religion of the fanatics has

inflicted upon the world.

The Rights and Superiority Bestowed on Women in the
Qur'an Are Nowhere in the Religion of the Fanatic

In societies under the influence of fanaticism, women cannot
enjoy the broad rights and authorities recognized as belonging to
women in the Qur'an. Indeed, women living in these societies are
wholly unaware even of the existence of those rights and freedoms.

The women in question are brought up far removed from the moral
values of the Qur'an. One consequence of that exclusion is that most
of them are unable even to read and write. There is therefore no way
in which they can know that what they are living by is not Islam, but

the pseudo-religion of fanaticism. However, not only these miserable
women, but also many countries of the world all imagine that these
fanatical practices that have persisted for centuries actually stem
from the Qur'an. They imagine that, may God forbid, the
Qur'an describes a faith in which women are worthless,
ignorant, oppressed, devoid of character, deprived of

all rights and forced to submit to their husbands with-
out question. Yet none of these slanders appear any-
where in the Qur'an.

Let us continue to respond to the slan-
ders against women that appear nowhere in
the Qur'an, but are perceived of as part of
Islam because of false hadiths:

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