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Bad Scarf (hijab) Day
the sakooter speaks
May 14th, 2007 ·
People have a bad hair day when their hair just refuses to behave within the
normal and decides that it has a mind of its own. This can be very
frustrating especially when you are getting late
People who cover their hair with a head scarf (part of hijab), the muslim
women generally, suffer from what can be called as ‘bad scarf day’
Judaism/Islam, parts 1 and 2
In surat al Fatiha we begin by saying:
"Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds."
In Judaism, in the prayer which includes the shem umalkhut:
"Blessed are you, Lord our God, Master of the Universe".
Hmmm ....
Oh, and get this. The Arabic word for blessing (as also used in the
Quran) is barakah.
In Judaism, b'rakha.
Maybe I just found a new hobby.
Truth About Iraqis
TOLERANCE
From 786 to 1492, in Andalucía, Spain,
there was a time when three cultures-- Islamic, Judaic and
Christian--forged a relatively stable (though occasionally contentious)
coexistence. Among the weeping fountains, breezy courtyards a long-running
tolerance erupted profoundly rooted in the cultivation of the complexities,
charms and challenges of contradictions. Through the interplay of all
these cultures produced music so intensely beautiful that it takes my
breath away and gives me goose bumps each time I hear it.
The cosmopolitian Istanbul I knew as a child had disappeared by the time I
reached adulthood. In 1852, Gautier, like many other travelers of the day, had
remarked that in the streets of Istanbul you could hear Turkish, Greek, Armenian,
Italian, French, and English (and, more than either of the last two languages,
Ladino, the medieval Spanish of the Jews who'd come to Istanbul after the
Inquisition). Noting that many people in this "tower of Babel" were fluent in
several languages, Gautier seems, like so many of his compatriots, to be
slightly ashamed to have no language other than his mother tongue.
After the founding of the Republic and the violent rise of Turkification, after
the state imposed sanctions on minorities—measures that some might describe as
the final stage of the city's "conquest" and others as ethnic cleansing—most of
these languages disappeared. I witnessed this cultural cleansing as a child, for
whenever anyone spoke Greek or Armenian too loudly in the street (you seldom
heard Kurds advertising themselves in public during this period), someone would
cry out, "Citizens, please speak Turkish!"—echoing what signs everywhere were
saying.
During the Middle Ages Sicily was ruled by a German
Emperor (Frederic II), everybody was welcome in that Sicily, free to start his
business, to talk whatever language, to wear his country clothes, to go to his
church, to teach his knowledge. From time to time the Pope would ask Frederic to
go for a crusade, but being a friend of the Muslims he pretended to be sick and
delayed it.
Perverted ideas opposing the
institution of marriage
Throughout the ages, humanity has come to learn of ideas and trends that oppose
the idea of marriage. In Persia (now Iran), before the advent of Islam, there
emerged Mani’s philosophy, which claimed that the world abounds in evil, that it
should be exterminated and that prohibiting marriage is the fastest way to
effect this goal.
Under the banner of Christianity appeared extreme monasticism that denounces
life, calls to getting incarcerated in monasteries and prohibiting marriage,
because woman, they held, is a cause of temptation and a devil incarnate.
Venturing near her is in itself a sin that corrupts a soul and alienates one
from Heaven.
In modern times, there exist in the West pessimists who totally condemned woman,
describing her as a serpent, with a soft touch but deadly venom. They further
claim that marriage offers her the golden opportunity to place man under her
thumb and shackle him with responsibilities. So why should man, out of his own
free will, choose to place those chains around his neck though he was born free?
Unfortunately, some of our contemporary Muslim youth have been fallen prey to
those perverted ideas, and thereupon decided to refrain from marriage that
entails endless responsibilities, obligations and restrictions. They, on the
other hand, wish to live their entire lives as children shouldering no
responsibilities. If overcome by desire or the call of their instincts, vicious
adultery will certainly quench their thirst in lieu of lawful marriage.
Yusuf
Al-Qaradawi
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Equal rights for women
As a matter of fact, The Prophet
was keen to make a model example of himself in treating women. His beloved wife
'Aisha narrated that he used to make a running competition with her! When she
was newly married and still slim, she used to win. Then, after many years, she
became fatter and thus he won. He used to taunt her saying: ‘this for that’ -
meaning to revenge his earlier loss!
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Imams, Academics Against Allowing Women to
Drive
Raid Qusti, Arab News |
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RIYADH, 18 July 2005 — A statement that has warned against the
dangers of allowing women to drive in Saudi Arabia was released on the
Internet on Friday. More than 100 sheikhs, imams, judges, Islamic
scholars, Islamic university teachers, several heads of Promotion of
Virtue and Prevention of Vice centers in the Kingdom, as well as some
teachers at the Grand Mosque in Makkah and the Prophet’s Mosque in
Madinah signed the statement.
The statement said that the enemies of
Islam are seeking to destroy the great role women have been given in
Islam by corrupting them and hence corrupting the Islamic world.
It said the enemies of Islam have portrayed the image of Muslim women
being without rights and having “a broken wing,” saying that their homes
are prisons, their husbands mistreat them, and their hijabs are a sign
of backwardness.
It said that they have come up with the terminology of “injustice for
women” in our country and have used it in the media lately introducing
the fact that they are not allowed to drive as a sign of injustice.
They also said in the statement that the ruling in Islam that
“closing all doors leads to corruption” was clear and was for the
protection of people and society. “Women driving cars is not permissible
because the ruling of ‘closing doors that leads to corruption’ applies
to it directly.”
The statement also said that those who say allowing women to drive
would be beneficial in some ways forget the ruling in Islam that if the
act derives more misdeeds, then it is ruled as not permissible.
The statement added that though it acknowledged that foreign drivers
are an economic burden on the country, their presence does less damage
than the economic burdens of allowing women to drive which are: The
multi-ownership of cars in one family instead of just one being used by
the driver; the replacement of a car by another one since women are
known to like everything new and the burden of the government having to
open special female sections in all Traffic Departments.
It concluded by saying that no Islamic scholar or good figure in
society has called for women to drive and that all those who have been
calling for them to drive are people who tend to damage the image of
Islamic women.
One of the signatories, Sheikh Muhammad Al-Ghamdi, head of the
Commission of the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in
Al-Mikhwah in Al-Baha region, said a group of righteous people
approached him and other sheikhs in the region to include their
signature to the statement.
“They showed us the statement and we read it and agreed with its
contents. That is why we signed it,” he said. “I was told that the
statement would be delivered to the leaders of our country. But I had no
idea that it was posted on the Internet,” he added.
Another signatory, Dr. Khaled Al-Shamrani, head of the Justice
Department in Umm Al-Qura University in Makkah, confirmed to Arab News
that the statement released on the Internet was true.
He said he found himself obliged to sign it after, what he called, a
media campaign supporting the idea of women driving got attention that
it deserved.
The Interior Ministry did not comment on the statement. |
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Sunday, 10, July, 2005 (03, Jumada al-Thani,
1426)
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