Postby The Law26 » Fri Dec 16, 2005 10:57 pm
As the question is from a Muslim perspective, and the point of discussion is the global emerging Wahabi version of Islam, then let me respond and say, either to hell with laws suppressing women rights in America or elsewhere, or are you implying that Wahabis in Saudi Arabia do apply Sharia Laws concerning female rights that resembles their American cousins?
We all know that Saudi Arabia is the source of chronic, systemic, intellectual and ideological crises facing the Muslim world. This might not convince the Wahabi follower and the error of his ways, and his society would continue to foster those ideas and sentiments and the system would continue to support them. Why do they ban women driving? Because they follow a Wahabi doctrine and use it as support for the idea of women as weak, fitna-producing, submissive, dependent, etc. The sad reality is that they are exporting and transplanting those ideas on other nations, communities and individuals like you and others here. For them (The Wahabi hierarchy and the Al-Saud dynasty), the rules and regulations of imagined “True-Islam†are simply a means of manipulating people like you.
True believing men do not seek to gain dictatorial authority over their women, but to help them so that they do not fall to rely on other men who may deceive and then misuse them. While the Wahabi idea of Muslim women are as malleable, dependent, submissive, weak, fitna-provoking, and in need of male guidance to be pious and true. You can find on these pages that the majority of abuses against women are supported by some men and women (Wahabi converts here), and are often found in their misuse of the Quraan and the Sunnah like the Saudis do in their Wahabi Sharia Laws.
It is a problem with many Muslims and not a problem with Islam. Allah SWT has given rights to women that were unknown of at the time. These rights were radical to the rest of the world and even among the early Muslims. If the thoughts of the Muslim society have to change, the sentiments must change, and also we should be wary in adopting the Wahabi and their govt’s system and laws.
Allah says in the Qur'an: Say: My Lord forbiddeth only indecencies, such of them as are apparent and such as are within, and sin and wrongful oppression, and that ye associate with Allah that for which no warrant hath been revealed, and that ye tell concerning Allah that which ye know not.(7.33)
MM
Either his memory is weak, or he is the biggest hypocrite that set foot in this board. Recently, while denying the existence of Wahabis, the man made noises about Islamic unity, just to turn around and take a cheap shot at other Muslims. His blind following of the Wahabi sect exacerbates his lack of understanding the complexity in defining the term Sufi. There is even a striking similarity of him with Arabman in the arena of tribal Somali politics and the traditional tribal sentiments that he strongly adheres to.
