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| Islam against honour killing, say women scholars | |
| 2015-06-02 | |
[DAWN] About 200 women religious scholars declared here on Sunday that honour killing is not allowed in Islam.
A declaration issued at the end of the conference said Islam does not allow killing of a mother, sister, daughter or any other woman in the name of honour. It condemned the acid attacks as the worst sin and heinous crime and said that Islam does not allow even slapping a woman in the face. The conference saw no harm in a marriage between a boy and a girl of their own free will, but declared marriage of a woman to Quran as haraam. It denounced the tradition of vani as a practice of the Dark Ages and said God does not create woman to be handed over or forcibly married to someone as compensation for the sins of her male relative(s). The scholars also criticised extremists for stopping girls from getting education and said Islam has made it mandatory for both men and women to get education and that in certain cases a woman may get education from a male teacher. The conference also declared as lawful for women to drive cars unlike in Saudi Arabia where they are not allowed to do so. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 From what I've read there is a divide between what is "Arab" and what is "Islam". Its pretty solidly blended in most of the middle east but when you get out to Indonesia (at least until recently) they were wearing sarongs and such without anyone thinking twice about it. Wahhabi is forcing more of the 'Arab' into the Islam. That is not saying one is good and the other is bad mind you. Just that they are different and I think the believers play word games with the difference. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-06-02 15:20 |
| #4 Arm the women with mohel knives and tell them not to skimp (In other words, the Lorena Bobbit school of thought). |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-06-02 10:46 |
| #3 No, they said "Don't worry your pretty little heads about it." Then they removed aforementioned heads. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2015-06-02 08:23 |
| #2 To which the "male"Muslim scholars said "shut up stupid woman". No, they pronounced fatwa requiring beheading of woman scholars. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-06-02 03:45 |
| #1 To which the "male"Muslim scholars said "shut up stupid woman". |
| Posted by: Steven 2015-06-02 03:25 |