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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger

extent of their perverted view of these children. The fanatical
mentality, which doesn't stop even after trying to cover up
women in a way not commanded in the Qur’an, debates whether
boys should wear a face veil and claims that they should not be sent
to school or allowed to go on pilgrimage. What is even worse is that
they claim that ‘young boys are accompanied by eighteen satans’.

This claim accuses all young boys of being ‘evil’ and that makes it
almost impossible for these children to live comfortably and safely in
society. A mentality that believes handsome young boys are evil
creatures cannot create a happy, healthy, peaceful and prosperous

society.

The Perversion that Claims Boys Can Be 19 Times More
Seductive than Women

His Highness Imam Muhammad went to the bathhouse one
day. A young boy came in and sat down. Imam Muham-

mad asked who he was. He was told that the boy was a
bath attendant. He rebuked his students and had the young
bath attendant taken out. He decreed the following when
he was asked about the reason of this act: “The lust felt for
a woman is the same in men but with a pretty beardless
young boy, it is nineteen (19) times more!” It is forbidden
to look at a beardless young boy even without feeling lust

because it causes one to look at him with lust. Touching
him is even a bigger sin than lust." (Ismail Hakki Bursevi,
Rūḥ al-bayān (the Spirit of Elucidation) 4/452-553)

In this account, in a completely twisted and sick way, it is
claimed that the lust for young boys is more than that for women.
For those who possess a fanatical mentality, a mentality which does

not consider women as smart, conscientious or respectable human

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