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[quote]As-Salamu Alaikum,

Yasmin Mogahed’s article, endlessly pasted across cyber-space, is shallow, uninformed and lacking in veracity or intellectual challenge. It’s just journalistic jingoism with the implicit assumption that feminism is underpinned by some form of ‘penis envy’. (I mean, really, seriously?)

Frankly, I’m disappointed.

Many feminists would be quite insulted by Ms Mogahed’s suggestion that they are seeking their identity through, or in comparison to, men.

She also suggests that ‘we’, and by this I assume she is referring to women in general and feminists in particular, have accepted that work outside the home is superior to the nurturing of children, as if women haven’t being doing both for centuries; very much a reactionary view from the Muslim enclaves of the Western, urbanite elite.

She ignores the cultural and class variations in the everyday experiences of women’s lives and has no grasp of the socio-economic imperatives or the massive historical changes in the latter half of the twentieth century that have shaped the possibilities for women at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Now if, for instance, you read Dr Wadud’s work, you may perhaps find a more stimulating, thought-provoking and certainly challenging debate.

Al-Hamdulillah, as one of the few attending the conference last weekend, I had the chance to meet Dr Wadud. I found her to be an intelligent and knowledgeable woman, profoundly and deeply committed to her faith; a woman of spirituality and humbleness as well as a sister full of empathy, humour and light.

This, of course, does not mean that I agree with everything she says, or writes, or does. It merely means that I found a Muslim sister worthy of respect.

I think Daud Bone has already made this point, succinctly and well; – I just wanted to reinforce it.

He also made the excellent point that there has been no serious or complete or intelligent rebuttal of her stance.

Part of the miracle of the Qur’an is that it is the final message – for all people; for all times. Surely then the Islamic paradigm is dynamic rather than static?

Can anyone point to an explicit prohibition on women leading the prayer?

Wa Salam,

Erica.
ericatimoney@tiscali.co.uk[/quote]

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