Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 19:54:17 -0800
Subject: Re: Update on Taslima Nasreen
From: "Saeeda Wali-Mohammed" <rani-AT-perpetualdata.com>


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>My only comment to this is that asking for the Sharia to be amended is
>asking for the amendment to the Quran. The Sharia is fundamentally linked
>to the Quran.
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>Ms. Patel, 
My problem with the  current interpretation of Sharia is the fact that
fallible, uneducated men get to interpret God's law to society and
particularly to women. There is an expression in Arabic that says that when
one is angry, one kicks the lowest wall. I'm afraid women have become the
lowest wall in Islamist, not Islamic, cultures. While I am not into arguing
this point at length, Sharia needs to be de-linked from the Quran and women
ought to have a right to discuss the rules imposed on them by mullahs etc.