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41. Ami;na Wadoud, a “role model” for Muslim women
Date of source: Saturday, July 23, 2005 to Friday, July 29, 2005
Jamāl al-Banna’s book Jawāz Imāmit al-Mar’a [the legality of women leading prayers] debates many issues, especially that of gender equality in Islam. He uses Dr. Amīna Wadoud leading men and women in prayers [in New York], as an example [for Muslim women].
40. Modern jurisprudents see women as “piles of flesh”
Date of source: Saturday, July 23, 2005 to Friday, July 29, 2005
The book Jawāz Imāmit al-Mar’a [the legality of women leading prayers], by Jamāl al-Banna, raises many questions for the reader.
32. "Hijab is a fard but it is not fundamental to religion," says al-Qaradawi;
Date of source: Saturday, July 16, 2005
Al-Ahrām al-‘Arabī interviewed Shaykh Yousuf al-Qaradāwī and discussed some Islamic issues including the indispensability of the Hijāb in Islam.
43. Qur’an interpretation à la ‘Abduh the plumber
Date of source: Saturday, July 9, 2005
When Dr. Amīna Wadoud designated herself as an Imām, leading the “American” Muslims who followed her, in a Friday prayer in New York, the Arabic and Islamic world flamed up with rage. The ulemas flared up and their appetites for issuing fatwas increased.
42. The ‘ulama’s: the interpretations of the religiously and mentally deficient
Date of source: Saturday, July 9, 2005
The women leading men in prayers; the odd interpretations of al-Nisā’ [Women] chapter of the Qur’ān, regarding the guardianship of the men over women; the desertion and the claim that God, god forbidden, is biasing for men because He is a male, all these controversies that have triggered uproar...
28. Islam has never denied women political participation, says Mufti;
Date of source: Saturday, June 25, 2005
Throughout their history, Muslims have never encountered what is now called women’s issues regarding work, political participation or any other aspect, neither during the age of Islamic glory, nor during the stages of weakness, said Mufti of the Republic ‘Alī Jumca in an interview
25. The tragedy of an Egyptian da‘iya in Spain
Date of source: Saturday, June 25, 2005
An Egyptian dā‘iya was sentenced to 15 months of imprisonment for writing a book deemed as a violation to the constitutional rights of women in Spain.
10. Iqbal Baraka and her modern vision about hejab
Date of source: Wednesday, December 1, 2004
Iqbal Baraka, the editor-in-chief of the Hawaa magazine, bring us back in her book about hejab [veil covering women’s hair] to the very beginnings of the practice, saying, “The Assyrians in Iraq were the first to impose the hejab on women.”
25. Islam and women
Date of source: Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Women, in the eyes of Islam, are not men’s adversaries, but rather they are complementary to men just like men are complementary to women. Accordingly, it is not acceptable by any means to have women’s rights gnawed at in favor of men.
12. Islam – West dialogue and the issue of Human Rights. According to Islamic thinking, human rights is considered a religious issue rather than a political one
Date of source: Monday, October 21, 2002
Human rights is the most controversial subject in the dialogue between Islam and the West. Muslims criticize many human rights [violations] in the West. Likewise, the West criticizes the human rights of Islamic countries. Each one evaluates the human rights of the other from its own point of view.

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