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[quote]Dear Shahida Assalaamu Alaikum Your previous quote: “….How has the definition of equality changes so that when people look at the past they beleive (muslim and nonmuslim) that Muslim women had it better than other women but in the present the perception is that Muslim's women's status lag behind other women.” Unquote What I meant to say about the “perception” you have quoted is that, had the status of Muslim women lagged behind other women (non-Muslims), these non-Muslim women would not have liked to adopt the way of Islam and got themselves reverted to Islam, only to be counted with the women lagging behind, in status. The enemies of Islam always construe theories of falsehood about Islam and Islamic practices and moral ethics. When they are at it, they never fail to highlight misconstruing the rights of women in Islam, unknowing the actual rights our women are enjoying. Many a non-Muslim women, in fact study the rights available in Islam, the way Muslim women enjoy their life, the morality, cleanliness, faithfulness etc. Islam demands out of men and women. They are amazed by the way women are generally treated by Muslims, irrespective of the hue and cry of the western media. These are the women who compare the status they had in their religion and the status they will be offered with, in Islam. Once they come under the fold of Islam, they are astounded by the way they are respected. Many non-Muslim women after reverting to Islam, have praised the Hijaab, saying how dignified and comfortable they feel for the first time in their life. I have seen Muslims women queuing behind a critic of Islam in demanding rights (as if they are not there) from Muslims community, and opposing Hijaab. I have seen that such ladies have enormous knowledge and intelligence to cope up with problems of the world, but lacking proper Islamic Knowledge, and due to the support and encouragement of other critics of Islam, they start questioning the very essence of Al-Qur’aan, instead of analyzing and finding the truth of their own. This is due to the scanty Islamic knowledge they got from their parents/schools or no knowledge at all. The cherished goal of media pundits, Western experts on Islam and the feminists is to liberate Muslim women from such oppression. Such is the result of a fierce propaganda campaign that has been going on for a very long time. The attack has been so ferocious that the veil and all the aspects of Shariah (Islamic laws) dealing with women should have been pulverized under its intense heat. Yet in the US, the Western Europe, Japan and Australia, it is the women who have been turning to Islam in record numbers. It was not supposed to happen. And when it does, the propaganda machinery does not acknowledge it. It puts a little more pressure on the accelerator. There is something to be said about the NY Times or LA Times reporter who will travel half way around the world to interview a woman with a Muslim sounding name in, say, Pakistan or Afghanisthan to talk about the Shariah’s injustices to women, while ignoring the Muslim women in their own backyard who have experienced both the worlds and yet love the Islamic one, hijaab and all. They fail to interview their own women folk who, discarding all their churches turn to Islamic Institutions, Mosques and Muslim habitations only to willingly fall in the trap of hijaab. The reporter travels not in search of truth, but only believability. For, the truth hurts; believability, on the other hand, is the foundation for building circulation and for propaganda !! Should not we listen to the women who were raised and educated in the west, had first hand experience of the status of women in the society, then studied Islam and observed the life behind the veil, decided to cross the fence against all the propaganda about immediate doom, and have enjoyed life ever since? These women do not exist in the propaganda world. They are never allowed to speak on the pages of “prestigious” publications. They have no rights. A Japanese Lady named “Khaula Nakata”, who embraced Islam writes about her experience of hijaab: “I have been wearing hijaab since I embraced Islam in Paris. The exact form of hijaab varies according to the country one is in, or the degree of the individual’s religious awareness. In France I wore a simple scarf which matched my dress and perched lightly on my head so that it was almost fashionable. Now, in Saudi Arabia, I wear an all-covering black cape; not even my eyes are visible. Thus, I have experienced hijaab from its simplest to its most complete form. While describing her feelings, she says : “I did feel different, somehow purified and protected, I felt as if I was in Allah’s company. As a foreigner in Paris, I sometimes felt uneasy being stared at by men. In my hijaab I went unnoticed, protected from impolite stares. Hijaab reminds people who see it that God exists….“ “Muslims are accused of being over-sensitive about the human body but the degree of sexual harassment which occurs these days justified modest dress. Just as a short skirt can send the signal that the wearer is available to men, so hijaab signals, loud and clear : “I am forbidden for you.” I hope the above gives you some idea about the wrong perception, people have regarding the status of women in Islam in general, and wearing hijaab in particular. Peace & Polite Smiles Zeenaeem[/quote]
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