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[quote]>>even the women working on television and videos, regardless of how modestly dressed they may be ..... Who is to say that they will be protected from piercing looks by non-mehram couch potatoes,

I suppose same will go for men as well. Who will protect them from couch potato women?

>>or even from the intentions of the non-mehrams whom they work with?

same for men and intentions of non-mehram women?

>>but then by the same principles it can't be right for women to work on television.

But by same principles, it cant be right to read Ghalib, or most of Urdu/Persian/Arabic poetry, or my favorite Maulana Rumi :)?

Owing to this streak of puritanism, we might not even be able to learn Classical Arabic since several of it exists in the form of love poetry?

>>Many noteworthy scholars, after acquiring years of knowledge

Who is to say they are noteworthy? There is no room for clerics in Islam. You are your best judge.

>>they are a product of images and pictures of people, which are also not good,

Will you include the dramas pinned by Ashfaque Ahmed and Banu Quddsiyah in this? The pantheon of progressive writers?

>>it wouldn't be acceptable for anyone working on television, both men and women. (Like someone pointed out - what about girls oogling at Legolas?)

I pointed that out, and I am not done there, it was mentioned for a purpose, I await a response to take it further, but certainly not toward your conclusion.

>>Playing innocent games, simply lying down with maybe a beautiful Quran recitation in the background,

Some people dont want to listen to Koranic recitation 24/7! Why make it cumbersome, why turn them away from religion with all this incessant thing about always listen to Koran rather than anything else. You mar creativity if nothing else.

>>then documentaries or clean informative stuff sounds better.

Who is to say, you wont fall after the guy in the documentary? Or even the voice. Understand that repressive environs lead to far dangerous situations than what currently exist.

>>And if we're not too pious we don't want to be wishing on that Day that we hadn't wasted our time in certain forms of entertainment.

There is always a difference of opinion on what constitutes piety, or modesty, else we would all be robots.

People worship the divine in different ways. Some are rigid, some are colorful, some like movies, some dont, a person watching movies maybe a better muslim than a person who does not.

We have to be comfortable in what we do. Repression leads to other problems. Recently one of my colleagues felt suffocated with all the spiels on Hijab. Barring the obvious restrictions, why do something if you are not one with it?

There is a reason that the Divine left many things for us to decide.

PS: Why must every thing be sexualized? I really fail to understand.

Edited by: junaidj on Saturday, November 13, 2004 8:41 AM[/quote]

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