Fatwa against research on muslim women

[hinduwoman]

because they are getting too uppity!

The Sunni Barelvi Markaz of Dargah Ala Hazrat on Saturday passed a fatwa decrying the findings of a survey by a research student of the law department at Mahatma Jyotiba Phule (MJP) Rohilkhand University on Muslim women's views on marriage, divorce, 'iddat' (the fixed time period after divorce) and maintenance allowance.

The survey said that 40% Muslim women wanted a change in the sharia law, 30% wanted the right to divorce, and as many as 80% demanded equal right in property as men. Twenty per cent were of the opinion that the time period of 'iddat' should be scrapped.

The survey, titled "Status of Muslim women and protective laws in socio-legal system", was conducted by Shumaila Anjum, a research scholar of MJP Rohilkhand University. She spoke to 100 women belonging to different sections of society in the Rohilkhand region.
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Mufti Mohammed Saleem Noori, one of three Muftis who passed a fatwa against the survey, said, "It is a negative survey as it is based on misleading questions. Like a survey or campaign cannot be launched for bringing an amendment to the Constitution of the country, Islamic law cannot be changed and no one has a right to demand an amendment to any of its clauses."

He added, "No one can demand an amendment in shariat law and it is wrong to say that it oppresses women. The law is equal for both men and women and those women who spoke in the survey are not fully aware about the law."

the really weird thing about this obsession with Shariah law in India is that the present Muslim personal law was actually codified by the British.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

What a stupid religion.

 

[Atheos]

He might as well have added, "No one can demand an amendment in shariat law and it is wrong to say that 2+2=4. 2+2=5 and those women who spoke in the survey are not fully aware about the law."

Stupid religion indeed.

 

[Keith&Co.]

the really weird thing about this obsession with Shariah law in India is that the present Muslim personal law was actually codified by the British.

No big surprise, there.
We have god-obsessed Americans who want to keep 'under god' in our pledge because it was 'good enough for the founding fathers...' If you're faithful enough, anything can be the truth, no matter what the facts may be.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Cleric announces Fatwa against the truth.

the really weird thing about this obsession with Shariah law in India is that the present Muslim personal law was actually codified by the British.

No big surprise, there.
We have god-obsessed Americans who want to keep 'under god' in our pledge because it was 'good enough for the founding fathers...'

Has someone actually said that?

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Cleric announces Fatwa against the truth.

Well, truth does have a well known anti-Islamic bias, so it makes sense for clerics to do whatever they can to rally Muslims against it.

 

[Keith&Co.]

We have god-obsessed Americans who want to keep 'under god' in our pledge because it was 'good enough for the founding fathers...'

Has someone actually said that?

Palin, for one.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Cleric announces Fatwa against the truth.

Well, truth does have a well known anti-Islamic bias, so it makes sense for clerics to do whatever they can to rally Muslims against it.

This is what I don't get. In Islam, everything is written, so what will be will be. Yet you still have these people fighting against decency. They seemed destined to try to take on destiny.