I don’t believe that’s true. At all. I can still remember when I was a little girl and my mother would sit me down with a copy of the translation of the Quran. Every day before school we would read from it for half an hour and discuss it and I can still recall that verse where Allah said that He has created us all, that He has created our images and that they are beautiful. Reading that verse changed something for me…before, I was like a lot of people who thought that beauty fits only a certain mold and if a person falls out of that mold, it’s not possible for him/her to be beautiful. But if Allah is saying that we are all beautiful…well, let’s just say that from then on, I tried my best to really pay attention to people and my definition of beauty became very very broad. Does that make any sense?
Sorry to get all preachy.