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Wife of 'ground zero mosque' imam epitomizes Islam's modernizing voice
Christian Science Monitor ^ | 8/23/10 | By Ben Arnoldy, Staff writer

Posted on 08/23/2010 5:27:36 PM PDT by DBCJR

One of the leaders of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero has spent years trying to amplify the voices of educated women within Islam. In this way, Daisy Khan epitomizes the so-called "moderate Muslim" and modernizing force from within Islam that some Americans are impatient to see.

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As I wrote at the time, their idea was "to ensure that women's perspectives on Islamic law become part of religious deliberation in the Muslim world – particularly on issues such as domestic violence, divorce, and inheritance."

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Khan explained to me the muftia effort, saying: "Islam is a religion of law, and it is important to express the principles of social justice within the framework of Islamic law." ...

WISE took as its first project a detailed argument (pdf) against both domestic violence and violent extremism using Islamic scholarship. Next topics for the group include female genital cutting, honor killings, and child marriages. The training of muftias remains a work in progress as WISE finishes a curriculum and looks for partners.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: New York
KEYWORDS: abdulrauf; daisykhan; groundzero; mosque
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To: Tax-chick

I see the demon within... how many of you see it?

LLS


21 posted on 08/23/2010 6:05:34 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: DBCJR
to ensure that women's perspectives on Islamic law become part of religious deliberation in the Muslim world

Would you like a pretty scarf to wear while they stone you?

22 posted on 08/23/2010 6:07:27 PM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: Tax-chick
She don't look like a daisy to me.

More like a cactus.

23 posted on 08/23/2010 6:09:27 PM PDT by keithtoo (3 Stooges - Barry (BHO), Slow (Nan P) & Surley (Harry R))
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To: Peter Libra

Excellent observations.


24 posted on 08/23/2010 6:25:32 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Maven of alcoholic beverage bargains!)
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To: keithtoo

A slightly-younger Bella Abzug or Helen Thomas. Ugh.


25 posted on 08/23/2010 6:26:26 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Maven of alcoholic beverage bargains!)
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To: DBCJR

I hope she doesn’t lose her head so to speak over this issue.


26 posted on 08/23/2010 6:30:05 PM PDT by christianhomeschoolmommaof3
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To: LibLieSlayer

Barbra Streisand’s uglier Arab sister.


27 posted on 08/23/2010 6:35:00 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Maven of alcoholic beverage bargains!)
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To: DBCJR
...their idea was "to ensure that women's perspectives on Islamic law become part of religious deliberation in the Muslim world – particularly on issues such as domestic violence, divorce, and inheritance."

Oh, yes... I'm quite certain that western women's views on these topics will be seriously deliberated in the Muslim world.< rolls eyes >

28 posted on 08/23/2010 6:48:51 PM PDT by Charles Martel ("Endeavor to persevere...")
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To: RachelFaith

“Islam needs to go the way of Nazism. Extermination by total warfare.”

I like the way you think.


29 posted on 08/23/2010 6:59:25 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: DBCJR

nuke ‘em ... from orbit ... starting with that Pig-Haven called mecca


30 posted on 08/23/2010 7:16:42 PM PDT by Patton@Bastogne
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To: DBCJR

nuke ‘em ... from orbit ... starting with that Pig-Haven called mecca


31 posted on 08/23/2010 7:16:47 PM PDT by Patton@Bastogne
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To: DBCJR

What a joke. These women may for a while present a very thin veneer of reasonablness within Islam but that will be dealt with in time. Islam will always eventually return to its source texts which simply don’t make room for women with these types of views. At that point they’re very lucky if they survive the consequences intact.


32 posted on 08/23/2010 8:07:58 PM PDT by bereanway
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To: DBCJR

Someone forgot the BARF ALERT.


33 posted on 08/23/2010 8:20:08 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Tax-chick

:-)! Have you seen barbara lately... she has grown exceedingly ugly! They look like sisters!

LLS


34 posted on 08/24/2010 4:21:20 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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