They have these ridiculous rulings that make no sense. If they cant work in their cities, what makes them so sure it can work for Muslims in the West? They can't even work in Somalia.
Who says they don't work in their cities?
Khadija, Muhammad (pbuh)'s wife, was a business woman and she was dealing with men and women. Aisha took a ride from a stranger (a man) after a battle ended back into the city. Here r fine examples of the prophets wives being in the presence of men.
Don't make lies upon Khadija she never did intermixxing, she worked through proxies via Prophet Mohammad (SAW).
Second of all Aisha (RA) was alone in the desert abandoned by her caravan, was the sahabi supposed to let her die? Second of all, the response of the people were ill-intenionted rumours, due to one instance! Look how they scrutinized every situation of intermixing until Allah interceded for her. This shows how serious they took intermixxing.
These people act as if God is a very strict, unreasoning God. He's not. Allah is a God of understanding. Its perfectly fine for men and women to be in mixed universities; especially in the West. And we don't need some backwards illiterate scholars telling us contradictions.
I think the scholars know more about Allah then you do.
These r the same jerks that forbide women to be indepedent business women. Women are not even allowed to sell bras in Saudi Arabia for goodness sake. But the Quran and Islam tells us Khadija was an independent business woman who travelled around the Middle East (ALONE) for business purposes. And a WOMAN who dealt with MEN ALONE in her business dealings.
Khadija (RA) did not deal alone, plus that was before the advent of Islam, so your view holds no water
Tell these jerk idiotic scholars to jump off a birdge. Any intelligent person will not listen to these animals.
Learn to respect the scholars, and their status in Islam.