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Christians Must Heed
Jesus

Enmity toward women and the error of regarding them as sec-
ond-class citizens is a shared characteristic of Darwinists, fascists,
communists and fanatics. Fanatics attach no importance to women,
and even hate them, because they live by the superstitions they invent,
and Darwinists because they regard them as a supposedly less ad-
vanced species of animal. All these are, of course, inhuman ideas that
emerge through encouragement by satan.
We have already discussed how fanaticism is as great a threat to
Christians and Jews as it is in Muslim societies. There are a great many
fanatics among Christians and Jews who also regard women as sec-
ond-class citizens and make their hatred of them abundantly clear at
every opportunity. However, in the same way that this false perspec-
tive of some Christians or some Jews cannot be laid at the door of all
of Christianity or all of Judaism, so the same mistaken perspective of
some Muslims cannot be attributed to all of Islam. Men and women
are equal in Islam. Indeed, women are made superior and protected in
the Koran. God reveals in the Koran that piety is the only measure

among human beings. Islam exalts and praises women. Those who
claim that Islam contains a kind of language that despises women are
therefore gravely mistaken.
The perverse idea that Islam supposedly regards women as sec-
ond-class human beings is one of the most basic tactics employed by

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