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[quote]If it gives an opportunity to women to get together to talk of God, to be active in furthering Islamic research especially on their own issues, which they would like to sort out themselves than being patronized by the beards, if it gives them a platform to raise their voice even more vehemently against widespread domestic abuse, then I fully endorse this mosque.

Allow me to underscore portions of the following link.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3429695.stm

[green]The shy women tell in low voices stories of how they have been divorced, abandoned and mistreated by their husbands

"Would having a place of worship of your own help?.....

The women nod in unison.

"You don't realise how helpless women are. We have no fallback, no opportunities to decide our fates. Our mosque will show the way," she says. [/green]

Now obviously going by democratic principles, if that is what they want then that is how things should be.

This is what I have had always in mind in the discussion on Hijab. Let them chart their own path.

As for discrimination, that already exists in conservative societies. Women are lectured to stay at arms' length from men in all occupations starting right from school.

As for fragmentation, there can be no  bigger divide than the Sunni Shia or the Muslim Ahmadi divide.

Finally, whatever the context of the Abu Daud Hadith, the general trend for Arab women has always been that of going to mosques.

After all if they can tend to warriors on battle fields, then going to mosques should be a non-issue.

Edited by: junaidj on Wednesday, August 11, 2004 2:00 PM[/quote]

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