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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger

cultured and self-confident Muslim
woman. This is something that God
desires and approves of.

Make-up is an important means of
looking well-groomed and attractive, and is
a blessing from God. God loves all forms of
beauty. That is why women, flowers, trees,

butterflies and birds have all been created
to be attractive. We greatly admire the har-
monious colors on a butterfly's wing, its
extraordinary symmetry and harmo-
nious patterns. Women are also an
adornment of this world, and even

the most attractive. In the same
way that a butterfly was created
to be delicate by our Lord, so
women are created to be

delicate. That beauty
bestowed on
them as a bless-
ing emerges through grooming, and they thus become highly valu-
able. The beauty that addresses the heart and eye of a woman who
doesn't take care of her appearance and attaches no value to herself

will also be valueless.

People who seek to ban the use of make-up have generally lost
the spirit of pleasure. In the same way that there is no art, pleasure,
joy or beauty in their murky world, since they regard women as enti-
ties that need to be locked away and eliminated, they prefer them to
be ugly than attractive. Let us therefore ask, what progressive and
modern person or society could possibly choose a religion that

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