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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger

who regard lawful things as unlawful and distort the verses of

the Qur'an. It may be a grave offense in the Sight of God to claim
that a commandment that does not appear in the Qur'an is actually
in it, even though one is well-aware of the truth.

The surprising thing is that some people who regard the head-
covering as a literal symbol of the faith and defend it in no uncertain
terms almost never mention the reference to the full covering in the

Qur'an.
Indeed, some people who measure
religious devotion in terms of head

covering and who measure superior-
ity in terms of head covering - even
though God says superiority lies in
piety - never mention the real

commandment about the jilbab in
the Qur'an. Although the Qur'an
says nothing about the head-cov-
ering but contains an explicit
commandment about the jil-
bab, they prefer to espouse

something which is not
in the Qur'an. It is
quite astonishing
how the head-
covering can

mean so much
in people's eyes
while nothing is said
about the jilbab.

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