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[quote]Dear Brother Zeenaeem:

Thank you for your thoughtful response and may Allah (S.W.T.A) bestow peace and blessings upon you and your family.

I am still mulling over your words (you said a mouthful) and intend on sharing your ideas with a group of Muslims discussing these issues.

One part of what you said:

"Those non-Muslim women who analyze and compare the Women’s Rights in Islam with their present status of their parent religion are the ones who are mostly adopting Islam. The ratio of women and men adopting Islam, now-a-days is 4:1."

I did not quite understand in terms of our discussion.  It seems to me that the past shows us that both converts and those born into Islam (I am the latter) have an important contribution to the "Islamic Nation"/Civilization.  One need not look further than the Ansars who embraced the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) in Medinah to see that.  In fact, the first Islamic community consisted primarily of converts as is half the population of Islam in some shape or fashion.  I think many of us who were born Muslim and come from generations of Muslim pose the questions/concerns I wrote to you about.  In fact, this is who the questions are generated from.  Perhaps, these questions are more likely to come from those of us not living in traditionally in Islamic societies--I belong to a Mayalsian and Indonesian group and they have similar and other questions. In any case, I hope that the above quote was not a slight to converts.  May Allah forgive me if this was not your intent but I would like to know what you meant by this.  Also, I think maybe in our next discussion we should discuss the very real prejudice some born Muslims have toward coverts and other intracommunity issues we never discuss.

I am very happy to be apart of these discussions and the one I belong to in the US.  I thank all who participate.

wasalaam,
shahidah[/quote]

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