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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger
When the baby girl buried alive is asked for what crime she was
killed, (Qur'an, 81:8-9)
When one of them is given the good news of a baby girl, his face
darkens and he is furious. He hides away from people because of
the evil of the good news he has been given. Should he keep her
ignominiously or bury her in the earth? What an evil judgment
they make! (Qur'an, 16:58-59)
The verses in question provide an all too illuminating descrip-
tion of the terrifying nature of the fanatics' attitude towards women
and show how much this attitude is cursed by God. A mentality that
was filled with rage and turned black when it learned that its child
was a daughter and that went even further, committing infanticide
by burying that child alive existed in the past, and they will have to
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