MUSLIM WOMAN LEADS PRAYER IN ISLAMIC WORSHIP
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
It’s unheard of. It can’t happen. It never should be.
No female is worth that much. A demonic curse has been put upon the female from conception. She wears ten curses throughout her existence. If she marries, one curse is lifted, others remaining.
If she gets out of line, a male can shoot her in the head or do away with her by some other killing instrument. If she shows her ankles, a male standing nearby can beat her. She’s not entitled to an education. She’s identified by her household, particularly the closest male.
But there seems to be a change in the wind.
In New York, a Muslim woman prayed. She prayed aloud with about 80 men and women present. She prayed in an Islamic gathering.
Muslim leadership elsewhere leveled severe criticism against her as well as the men endorsing her act.
Nevertheless, the female professor of Islamic studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, proceeded undeterred. She is not going to be tradition-bound by a custom that endangers females’ existence, let alone their furtherance in education and vocation.
Therefore, Amina Wadud "did her thing" in the name of Allah. She prayed aloud before males and females in a religious meeting. Actually, there have been some other such gatherings, but usually kept rather quiet. This one was notable because of the professorship of the female and because of the New York City cosmopolitan setting. Whatever, such gatherings in which females take part, especially in open prayers, are extremely rare and basically confined to the West.
According to the Associated Press, "’The issue of gender equality is a very important one in Islam, and Muslims have unfortunately used highly restrictive interpretations of history to move backward.’ Wadud said before the service. ‘With this prayer service we are moving forward. This single act is symbolic of the possibilities within Islam.’
"’The event was meant to draw attention to the inequality for women in Muslim spiritual life and Muslim life in general,’ said Asra Q. Nomani, an author and former Wall Street Journal reporter who is the lead organizer of the prayer. ‘We are standing up for our rights as women in Islam. We will no longer accept the back door or the shadows. At the end of the day, we'll be leaders in the Muslim world."
Not all agree, of course. One of them, Nussrah, providing to the press only one name, stated emphatically that what occurred in the woman leading in prayer was abhorrent. "’She is tarnishing the whole Islamic faith,’ he said."
Stay tuned.
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It’s unheard of. It can’t happen. It never should be.
No female is worth that much. A demonic curse has been put upon the female from conception. She wears ten curses throughout her existence. If she marries, one curse is lifted, others remaining.
If she gets out of line, a male can shoot her in the head or do away with her by some other killing instrument. If she shows her ankles, a male standing nearby can beat her. She’s not entitled to an education. She’s identified by her household, particularly the closest male.
But there seems to be a change in the wind.
In New York, a Muslim woman prayed. She prayed aloud with about 80 men and women present. She prayed in an Islamic gathering.
Muslim leadership elsewhere leveled severe criticism against her as well as the men endorsing her act.
Nevertheless, the female professor of Islamic studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, proceeded undeterred. She is not going to be tradition-bound by a custom that endangers females’ existence, let alone their furtherance in education and vocation.
Therefore, Amina Wadud "did her thing" in the name of Allah. She prayed aloud before males and females in a religious meeting. Actually, there have been some other such gatherings, but usually kept rather quiet. This one was notable because of the professorship of the female and because of the New York City cosmopolitan setting. Whatever, such gatherings in which females take part, especially in open prayers, are extremely rare and basically confined to the West.
According to the Associated Press, "’The issue of gender equality is a very important one in Islam, and Muslims have unfortunately used highly restrictive interpretations of history to move backward.’ Wadud said before the service. ‘With this prayer service we are moving forward. This single act is symbolic of the possibilities within Islam.’
"’The event was meant to draw attention to the inequality for women in Muslim spiritual life and Muslim life in general,’ said Asra Q. Nomani, an author and former Wall Street Journal reporter who is the lead organizer of the prayer. ‘We are standing up for our rights as women in Islam. We will no longer accept the back door or the shadows. At the end of the day, we'll be leaders in the Muslim world."
Not all agree, of course. One of them, Nussrah, providing to the press only one name, stated emphatically that what occurred in the woman leading in prayer was abhorrent. "’She is tarnishing the whole Islamic faith,’ he said."
Stay tuned.
For more: http://conservativeposts.us/ <http://conservativeposts.us/>
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