Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 20:42:09 -0400
Subject: Re: Update on Taslima Nasreen -- Saeeda's comments
From: fseihoun-AT-juno.com (Farideh Seihoun)



It is a great mistake for any educated person to think that the laws of 
1400 plus years ago religious or otherwise would be valid to day.Yes
Qoran is more advance than Bible, but doesn't say"Men are the rulers of
Women"" Al rejalo ghavvamoona ala nesa" Doesn't say "hit them on their
head if they do not obey?"
So we better stop this discussion that gets us nowhere as religion is
only an emotional matter.

On Tue, 6 Oct 1998 18:26:06 -0400 Partha Banerjee <partha-AT-capital.net>
writes:
>Saeeda Wali-Mohammed writes:
>
>>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.
>
>
>____
>
>I couldn't agree more. The same applies to interpretation of Hindu 
>texts by
>RSS/BJP/VHP or of Christian texts by Christian Coalition or Promise 
>Keepers.
>
>Regarding the apt "kicking the lowest wall" comment by Saeeda, in 
>Hinduism,
>it's the women and lower castes that get kicked. In Christianity (the 
>U.S.
>version), it's the blacks-muslims-foreigners-women. Women are the 
>common
>target by all fundamentalist religions.
>
>Unless educated/empowered women come out of their elitist shell and do
>something about it (I mean other than writing on the Internet), this 
>abuse
>of power will live. Taslima at least (purposefully or not) kicked them
>back. That's why they are so angry.
>
>
>
>
>

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