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When Mountains Move in the Muslim World!

6 October 2009 1,520 views 4 Comments

Last night I was reading in the Swiss paper that Egypt is planning on introducing a veil ban. Though the interesting part is who wants to introduce this ban.

Egypt’s top Islamic cleric is planning to ban students wearing the face veil from entering the schools of al-Azhar, Sunni Islam’s premier institute of learning, according to an independent daily Monday.

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While a vast majority of Egyptian women wear the headscarf, only a few wear the niqab, which covers the face and is common in neighboring Saudi Arabia which practices the more conservative form of Wahhabi Islam. The trend seems to gaining ground in the Arab world’s most populous country.

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The majority of Islamic scholars say the face veil is not required but is merely a custom that dates back to tribal, nomadic societies living in the Arabian desert before Islam began.

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“Niqab has nothing to do with Islam…I know about religion better than you and your parents,” the cleric was quoted as telling the student.

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“We all agree that niqab is not a religious requirement,” Bayoumi said. “Taliban forces women to wear the niqab… The phenomena is spreading” and it has to be confronted, he added. “The time has come.”

FINALLY! It is about time somebody confronts the extremists in Saudi Arabia, Taliban, and the other extremists. There is nothing wrong with the Muslim faith, but there is something wrong with the extremists who are causing pain and heartache. So to see a cleric stand up and say something counts in my book as a mountain being moved.

You want to know the sad part about this, I bet this bit of news will not make the mainstream news! Yet if a Muslim was to commit any act of violence it will be plastered across all headlines. Sad!

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4 Comments »

  • zsilence said:

    I would like to say one word to you. Before you starting accusing people and spreading hatred, I want to ask you couple of questions.

    If you call your self a liberal and a democrat and bla bla, can you tell me what Taliban did wrong for the US! I will assume the bin laden is wanted in the US for whatever crime he committed, didn’t Taliban before the war in Afghanistan had there council vote for not handing in bin laden!! Isn’t this in your liberal mind a democracy!! Even if the women in Afghanistan has to wear a tent or whatever, what this has a harm on you in the US. You go walk naked or your sister, what this has to do with some one else who want to walk like a tent!!

    You think that you are open minded and you have a lot of knowledge, however, in fact you are so pathetic that you are like any idiot who listen to the media and don’t understand anything.

    Welcome to the world of slaves

    # 7 October 2009 at 1:32 am
  • Christian (author) said:

    I have given some thought to what you are saying and I would like to say that I disagree with you.

    You say:
    >you in the US

    I am not in the US, I am not an American, and I don’t live in the US. So stop associating me with the US.

    You say:
    >Isn’t this in your liberal mind a democracy!!

    This is not about democracy, but about rights. Let me explain a paragraph from the Canadian constitution:

    http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/const/9.html#anchorsc:7-bo-ga:l_I-gb:s_1

    Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice.

    While you argue that I could walk naked around and nobody would say anything against it, you are missing the second part of most consitutions. The second part says that you have the right to do what you want, but you right to exercise freedom cannot take away from somebody else their rights.

    Thus when you say:

    “Even if the women in Afghanistan has to wear a tent or whatever, what this has a harm on you in the US.”

    You are saying that a woman HAS TO and that is taking away their rights by exercising your rights. And that is wrong.

    This is the problem of the veil and making women run around like tents because you are taking away their rights to express themselves. Are you giving them a choice on what they want to do?

    When you say, “before the war in Afghanistan had there council vote for not handing in bin laden”

    Fair enough that was a democratic vote. BUT and here is the but. Do you remember the second part of the constitution. If you commit a crime then your rights are taken away. The reason for this clause is so that you cannot commit murder (taking away the rights of somebody’s destiny) and then claim to have rights when taken to jail to serve time. Thus Bin Laden has no rights since he took away rights from other people, even if somebody said, “hey all is ok.”

    This also ensures that nobody can accept contracts that are illegal. For example, you cannot sign a contract that gives somebody else the right to take away your rights (eg murder). This has aspect of the law has been tested in a German court a few years ago and the murderer lost, even though the one being murdered was ok with it.

    # 8 October 2009 at 2:35 am
  • zsilence said:

    Ok…

    When I say you in the US, I mean FIRST world countries which I assume that you are coming from one (I guess Canada now). So you should be open to the idea and not to the letters.

    Second, why have you assumed that females are wearing Niqab without there agreement and acceptance? If you want to be fair, first your have to know the story and that the Clerk asked the girl to take out the Niqab and SHE refused to. So no one is forcing here to!

    Third, if you are saying that it should be ONE’S own right that means know one should BAN it as long it is accepted by the person himself. What you think is “moving a mountain” nothing but violating basic human right which is wearing a cloth, especially if it is not offending other people.

    Also, about Afghanistan you missed one point; which is Taliban DID NOT attach the US, maybe bin Laden did. So you can not attack a country and assume that they are BAD because a group of people living there are murderer or whatever they are.

    There is an Egyptain man who is accused by what so called terrorist attacks in egypt on the 80th. He is living in the UK, and when the governement asked the UK to hand him over, they refused! You know why? Cause he has done nothing in the UK. Why would you think that this is of any difference?

    You should know something, before starting commenting and expressing your “valuable” comments, you should READ, READ, and THEN UNDERSTAND. That if you consider your self a rational person

    # 8 October 2009 at 9:44 am
  • Christian (author) said:

    I had some time to think about this.

    First why do you assume that they accept wearing the Niqab? But you know arguing like this is not going to get anywhere since you and I can neither prove nor disprove the point.

    The issue I have is why are men not wearing these outfits? Why not equality between the man and the woman? Because if you look at the outfits for men and women they are unequal. Women are expected to dress completely covered whereas men are not.

    Regarding the attacking of Afghanistan, and the handing of terrorists is actually beside the point and not part of the discussion. While there is much to be discussed on those topics it is not the point I want to talk about.

    # 17 October 2009 at 4:40 pm