[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Re: [perempuan] *the "great!!" Amina Wadud (2)*
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- Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:09:59 -0000
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wassalam,
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> Mideast Ire At NYC Prayer Service
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> CAIRO, Egypt, March 19, 2005
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> A woman and a man sit side by side during an Islamic
> prayer lead by Amina Wadud in New York. Some Muslims
> in the Middle East called the service an apostasy,
> which is punishable by death in Islam. (Photo: AP)
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> "The woman's body, even if veiled, stirs desire."
> Soad Saleh, heads of Islamic department of the women's
> college at Al-Azhar University in Egypt
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> (AP) Muslims in the Middle East on Saturday angrily
> denounced a mixed-gender Islamic prayer service led by
> a woman in New York as a violation of their religion.
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> Amina Wadud, a professor of Islamic studies at
> Virginia Commonwealth University, led the service on
> Friday before a congregation of 80 to 100 men and
> women at Synod House at the Cathedral of St. John the
> Divine in Manhattan, an Episcopal church.
>
> Three mosques had refused to hold the service, and an
> art gallery backed out after receiving a bomb threat.
> Organizers said the service was intended to draw
> attention to the inequality faced by Muslim women.
>
> The Egyptian newspaper, Al-Messa, reported the service
> on its front page, with the emphatic headline: "They
> are tarnishing Islam in America!" It referred to Wadud
> as "the deranged woman."
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> A female Islamic law professor condemned the act as
> apostasy, explaining that a woman's body "stirs
> desire" in men. Some suggested the event was a U.S.
> conspiracy to mold traditional Islam into a secular
> American religion.
>
> Muslims are required to pray five times a day. On
> Friday, the Muslim holy day, many try to perform their
> midday prayers at a mosque. A male imam leads the
> prayer, followed by lines of men and, behind them,
> women. Most mosques have different halls, or different
> floors for the women, as well as separate entrances.
>
> Sheik Sayed Tantawi, head of Egypt's Al-Azhar mosque,
> the leading Sunni Muslim institution, said Islam
> permits women to lead other women in prayer but not a
> congregation that includes men.
>
> Many of the women who attended the service in New York
> were modestly dressed and, in accordance with Islamic
> tradition, covered their hair with the hijab, or head
> scarf. Wadud conducted the service primarily in
> English with verses of the Quran read in Arabic.
>
> "Women were not allowed to (have) input in the basic
> paradigms of what it means to be a Muslim," Wadud said
> after the service. She added that while the Islamic
> holy book, the Quran, puts men and women on equal
> footing, men have distorted its teachings to leave
> women with no role other than "as sexual partners."
>
> But in the conservative Middle East, Wadud's prayer
> service was frowned upon.
>
> In Saudi Arabia, Grand Mufti Abdul-Aziz al-Sheik spoke
> out against it in Friday prayers at a Riyadh mosque.
>
> "Those who defended this issue are violating God's
> law," he said. "Enemies of Islam are using women's
> issues to corrupt the community."
>
> Soad Saleh, who heads the Islamic department of the
> women's college at Al-Azhar University, considered the
> act an apostasy, which is punishable by death in
> Islam.
>
> "It is categorically forbidden for women to lead
> prayers (if they include men worshippers) and
> intentionally violates the basics of Islam," she said.
>
>
> She said women should not lead prayers because "the
> woman's body, even if veiled, stirs desire."
>
> Saleh also suggested the prayer service was a ploy to
> weaken Islam.
>
> "It's a foreign conspiracy, through secular (Muslim)
> organizations, to sow seeds of division between
> Muslims," she said. "But God will protect his
> religion."
>
> Abdul-Moti Bayoumi, of the Islamic Research Center at
> Al-Azhar, said Wadud had carried out "a bad and
> deviant innovation" that contradicted the Prophet
> Mohammed's sayings and deeds.
>
> Not allowing women to lead mixed gender prayers "is
> not discrimination between women and men but is to
> safeguard men from being conflicted and torn by human
> desire while they are standing behind a woman while
> she's bowing and kneeling," Bayoumi said.
>
> The prayer service and reactions of those who attended
> were covered by the two major Arab satellite networks,
> Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya.
>
> One Web site known for postings by Islamic militants
> carried photos of women at the service who had failed
> to cover their heads.
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