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racism, ethnic conflicts, moral degeneration, and many more disasters that inflicted catastrophes on hu-
manity.
All of a sudden, Social Darwinism imparted an alleged scientific validity to existing evils, ruthless

policies and practices. Adopting that trend, which lacks any scientific basis whatsoever, many people
failed to live by religious moral values and began to regard ruthlessness, savagery and cruelty as unex-
ceptional. They ignored the fact that religious moral values require virtues such as compassion, affec-
tion, understanding, self-sacrifice, solidarity and mutual support between individuals and societies.

Perpetrators claimed a scientific foundation to their cruelty, and that therefore, the savagery they in-
flicted could be regarded as justified. These false claims and suppositions were of course a terrible de-
ception.
In this book, we shall be examining and illuminating two main subjects: First, the dangers of edu-

cating young people in the light of Darwinism and of the theory's wide acceptance will be shown to peo-
ple unaware of, or who ignore, the threat that it poses to societies and individuals.
Second, it will respond to those who maintain that Darwin and evolutionists are not in total agree-
ment with Social Darwinists, and will show that every evolutionist who signs up to the theory of evo-

lution is in fact signing up to Social Darwinism as well.
Throughout, we shall be emphasizing that the model proposed by the theory of evolution, regard-
ing human beings as a species of animal, is an error based on ruthlessness, lovelessness, selfishness and
self-interest. Darwinism seeks to construct a world where humans live and behave like animals. Social

Darwinism's teachings and practices make this quite clear. According to its twisted views, it is perfect-
ly acceptable for an elderly, needy person to be dragged out of his home and taken away to be killed; or
for handicapped people to be rounded up and left to die in concentration camps. According to this dis-
torted thinking, those in the "inferior" classes can be ruthlessly persecuted, exploited and eliminated.

Those who believe that human society can progress only when these savage policies are implemented
regard such slaughter, genocide, cruelty and ruthlessness as a kind of success. They maintain that indi-
viduals and societies—indeed, entire cultures and nations—unable to achieve that success, must be done
away with.

Without doubt, that is a most perverted and dangerous way of thinking. Perceiving this danger is of
the greatest importance for those who oppose the theory
and the ideologies based on it. Societal
models based on Darwin and

Darwinism are models that will lead to
the most dreadful catastrophes. On the
other hand, the moral values that God
commands to humanity and reveals in

the Qur'an will always bring with them
peace and well-being.

Social Darwinism provided an alleged
scientific justification for many ruthless-
ness that regarded the lives of the poor as
unimportant.

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