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26Mar08

I’m surprised this piece could appear in NYTimes. Lengthy yet well explained article about Shariah

Why Shariah?

….To many, the word “Shariah” conjures horrors of hands cut off, adulterers stoned and women oppressed. By contrast, who today remembers that the much-loved English common law called for execution as punishment for hundreds of crimes, including theft of any object worth five shillings or more? How many know that until the 18th century, the laws of most European countries authorized torture as an official component of the criminal-justice system? As for sexism, the common law long denied married women any property rights or indeed legal personality apart from their husbands. When the British applied their law to Muslims in place of Shariah, as they did in some colonies, the result was to strip married women of the property that Islamic law had always granted them — hardly progress toward equality of the sexes…

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The second one is about Muslim students speaking out their rights in their university. MashAllah, I’m impressed. Go Muslims!!

At Harvard, Students’ Muslim Traditions Are a Topic of Debate

…On March 13, an op-ed article by three graduate students denounced the practice, which has been going on for several years. They wrote that while pluralism was fine, the adhan espouses Muslim intolerance toward other faiths by stating that the Prophet Muhammad is God’s messenger. Calling it proselytizing, the op-ed article said, “The adhan, it seems, is the exception to Harvard’s unspoken rule of religious tolerance and respect.”…

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Hopefully this would open doors to Da’wa and make the curious ones find out about Prophet Muhammad saw.

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