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that cause melanoma, skin cancer.
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Both Judaism and Christianity preach that the fall of Adam from the
Garden of Eden was the fault of Eve and as such women are to blame.
This is not the teaching of Islam, the Koran directs all the responsibility
to Adam himself, while adding that Allah turned to Adam in mercy and
forgave him his sin. Therefore, Adam's sin stops with Adam himself, and
Allah does not hold mankind responsible for the sin of Adam and rejects
the concept of original sin.
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We cannot deny that the condition of women has at times been
regrettable in the Muslim world, but the same can also be said of the rest
of the world at large. We do not wish to justify these circumstances, but
only to make the point that they did not originate from the teachings of
.
Both Judaism and Christianity preach that the fall of Adam from the
Garden of Eden was the fault of Eve and as such women are to blame.
This is not the teaching of Islam, the Koran directs all the responsibility
to Adam himself, while adding that Allah turned to Adam in mercy and
forgave him his sin. Therefore, Adam's sin stops with Adam himself, and
Allah does not hold mankind responsible for the sin of Adam and rejects
the concept of original sin.
15
We cannot deny that the condition of women has at times been
regrettable in the Muslim world, but the same can also be said of the rest
of the world at large. We do not wish to justify these circumstances, but
only to make the point that they did not originate from the teachings of