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"A good action and a bad action are not the same.

Repel the bad with something better and, if there
is enmity between you and someone else,
he will be like a bosom friend."
(Surah Fussilat: 34)

justify savagery and slaughter. Opposites exist everywhere: Day and
night, dark and light, hot and cold, good and bad. Yet these have been
created to emphasize the beauty of the world and to allow moral virtues
such as compassion, peace and forgiveness to emerge. The same thing
applies to the world of ideas. The fact that people think or believe dif-
ferently is no reason for them to ruthlessly slaughter each other. Allah
commands people to behave with kindness, even to their enemies, and
to speak good words to people. All contradictions can be resolved in an
atmosphere of peace and toleration by people who possess the reason
and good conscience that Qur'anic morality brings with it.
Communism, however, maintains the exact opposite. In fact, when
conflict, which is one of the most important components of commu-
nism, joined forces with Darwinist thought, which regards human be-
ings as a species of animal, the result was the deaths of millions of
people and the ruining of many more lives. That is why the policies of
Mao and his followers were not changed by the sufferings they caused
their people, whom they regarded as just a herd of animals.
The Darwinist world view which caused Mao to regard those who
opposed communism as animals is emphasized in the book China and
Charles Darwin by James Reeve Pusey, a historian from Harvard Uni-
versity:

Communist China’s Policy
of Oppression in East Turkestan