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Israelites under his rule, killed their men aiming to bring their race
to extinction. The Qur'an describes Pharaoh's perversions:
Pharaoh exalted himself arrogantly in the land and divided its peo-
ple into camps, oppressing one group of them by slaughtering their
sons and letting their women live. He was one of the corrupters.
(Surat al-Qasas, 4)
“Am not I better than this man who is contemptible and can
scarcely make anything clear?” (Surat az-Zukhruf, 52)

In that way he [Pharaoh] swayed his people and they succumbed to
him... (Surat az- Zukhruf, 54)
And We bequeathed to the people who had been oppressed the
easternmost part of the land We had blessed, and its westernmost
part as well… (Surat al-A'raf, 137)
Ancient Egypt was by no means the only extremist society

where only might was regarded as right, humans were divided into
classes, those regarded as “inferior” were oppressed and subjected
to inhuman treatment. There are numerous examples of other such
regimes, right up to the present day.
In the 19th century, however, these evil practices acquired a
whole new dimension. Up until then, measures and policies that