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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger

Imam al-Sadiq: "For someone to be brought low and dis-
graced, it is enough to wear clothes that will spread their
fame (in such a way as to attract people's attention and
cause them to point that person out)." (Bihar al-Anwar,
Vol.78, p. 252)

Hazrat Ali: "Wear thick clothing (that does not reveal the
body) because people who wear thin clothing also possess

thin (weak) faith." (Bihar al-Anwar, Vol.79, p. 298)

The Messenger of God (pbuh) forbade women to wear
clothes that would attract people's attention and from
wearing accessories that make noise when they went out.
(Mustadrak al-Wasail, Vol.14, p. 280)

Fabricated Hadiths that Maintain that Women Lose Para-
dise by Preoccupying Themselves with Gold and Clothes

I looked into paradise and the minority of its inhabitants
were women. So I asked, "Where are the women?" And I
was told, "They are preoccupied with two red things: gold,
and saffron," meaning jewelry and dyestuff for clothes.

Fabricated Hadiths that Maintain that Women Should not
be Given Nice Clothes

Help women by not giving them nice clothes to wear.

The reason for quoting all these fabricated hadiths is to be able
to show how women are despised in the religion of the peddlers of
superstition, and how they are regarded as foolish, lacking in char-

acter and generally irrelevant. Considering women inferior and feel-

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