From: iview-AT-technologist.com
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 17:34:03 -0700
Subject: Feiziya Patel's comment...Re: Update on Taslima Nasreen


Absolutely agree...I say we get to the heart of the matter:  the unity
of humankind which scriptures of all religions espouse...without
bloodshed...are we humans responsible for bloodshed or is it our
scriptures or is it our interpretations of scripture?

Feiziya Patel wrote:
> 
> >>
> >>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.
> >>
> >>
> >>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.
> 
> Then it is the interpretors of the Islamic law with whom the issue is and
> not with the Islamic laws themselves.