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Over in the Afghanistan That Old Joe Biden Built, the status of women continues to worsen. Molvi Mohammad Sadiq Akif, who is the spokesman for the Taliban’s Ministry of Vice and Virtue, said Thursday that “it is very bad to see women (without the hijab) in some areas,” but he went much farther, adding that “our scholars also agree that women’s faces should be hidden.”
Akif added: “A woman has her own value and that value decreases by men looking at her.” However, a Muslim professor in Britain assures us that the Taliban have misunderstood Islam on this point, and so surely reason will eventually prevail even in Afghanistan. Won’t it?
One of the most persistent and cherished, as well as potentially catastrophic, fantasies of our Age of Absurdity is the near-universal belief that Islam is a religion of peace that has been hijacked by a tiny minority of extremists. This idea in turn gives rise to related falsehoods, such as the claim that all religious traditions are equally capable of giving rise to violent fanaticism and above all the idea that Islamic terrorists don’t know much about Islam and both misunderstand and misapply its core teachings.
Ever since George W. Bush went into the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C., on Sept. 17, 2001, along with the leader of a group that has been linked to Hamas and a man who was later found to be funding al-Qaeda, and proclaimed that “Islam is peace,” these comforting falsehoods have deformed our domestic and foreign policies in innumerable ways. But no matter how much reality disproves them, they persist and continue to be disseminated and taken for granted as axiomatically true.
The latest to spread these pleasing untruths is Tim Winter, also known as Abdal Hakim Murad, an Englishman who converted to Islam in 1979 and is now the Shaykh Zayed Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University. The Associated Press reported Friday that Winter “said there was no scriptural mandate in Islam for face coverings and the Taliban would struggle to find anything in Islamic scripture that backed their interpretation of hijab rules.”
He added, “Their name implies they are not senior religious experts. The word Taliban means students.” This implies that eventually those who know about Islam will prevail in Afghanistan, and women’s rights will be restored. But is what Winter is saying true? Does he really know Islam better than the Taliban do?
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FYI says
Yes ,yes the islamic ‘scholars’:I have such along list!… but alas no answers ever come from the ‘scholars’ of islam;But that’s because they have to lie to hide all the errors in the holey koran isn’t it?
Like allah’s LACK OF OMNISCIENCE revealed in an epic and absolutely hilarious Theology fail{and ETERNAL ERROR}in koran 5:116,his violation of every single law of the Torah,a book that allah confirms as true{koran 3:3}and which he gave to Moses{koran 2;87} and yet allah’s koran VIOLATES the Law,…how allah MISSED the Golden Rule,the scientific and logical errors in the ‘perfectly preserved’ koran?etc
And ‘many,many more’ but we would be here all day and the ‘scholars’ of islam will have no answers.They just quote the koran back at you and expect you not to think critically about it.
It is much worse than ‘holes in the narrative’ but islamic ‘scholars’ don’t want muslims to figure that out.
Want a free course in critical thinking for islamic studies students?No money required!
Then ignore the ‘scholars’ of islam and follow allah’s advice given to muhammed in koran 10:94
{yes allah says to check with the Bible people,NOT the islamic ‘scholars’.Bible is not corrupted:islamic ‘scholars’ say that to stop you figuring it out.And no, Christians don’t believe in 3 gods which allah thinks includes MARY.
It seems islamic ‘scholars’ have MISUNDERSTOOD quite a lot and so it seems so has “allah who knows all things”
Yet even allah says to check with the Bible people if you have any questions.
koran 10:94
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FYI says
The difference between a Bible Scholar and an islamic ‘scholar’
Bible scholars have no reason to lie to you :besides you can always read it yourself.
There is no suggestion that you cannot understand it.It is in all languages for convenience.So it would be quite silly to fiddle the language as muslim {desperately}do with the Arabic of the koran/hadith
islamic ‘scholars’ actually HAVE to lie to hide all the errors in the koran.They will pretend you need to be trained as an islamic ‘scholar’ .maybe a PhD in classical Arabic[NONSENSE!}and use all sorts of tricks like’oh you don’t know the Arabic”.”The Jews corrupted the Torah”
To stop muslims figuring it out an aura of fear is created around the koran.muslims are discouraged from reading the koran critically.interpreting it for themselves{as they would see all the errors and the scholars of islam /dawahs who interpret it for you would be out of business} and definitely not check the Bible which allah says to do{which is WHY the Bible -which remember allah CONFIRMS{KORAN 3:3} and permits you t check{koran 10:94}…is banned in islamic countries and why the muslim holy men lie by saying the Bible is corrupted.That’s not what allah says.}
muslims can actually figure it out themselves by followilng allah’s advice{koran 10:94}
Surely islamic students should check with the original sources,right?
That Torah of allah{does the koran confirm to the laws in the original?NO}…That Gospel{Is Mary really one of the 3 gods christians worship?NO,Ridiculous!}
Surely a good student of islam will follow allah’s advice in koran 10:94?
Keith O says
It’s the cobbled together “new testament” that is banned in a lot of mudslime countries. They tolerate the old testament as it is viewed as a lead up and allahs first attempt at getting things right, which in and of itself points to allah being far from perfect. If he was, he would have nailed it on the first attempt!
FYI says
Given that allah has One leg and Two Right Hands {as you surely know} allah cannot be the creator;i mean he cannot even get his OWN body right.
allah uses his One Leg to crush the souls in hell, who in islam are mostly muslim women and ‘people with black faces’.
I am not laughing at anyone who has 1leg and 2 right hands but i will laugh at allah if he thinks he can fool us into thinking he is perfect and the creator of the universe.
Kashyap says
Facts do not support the belief of this Muslim Professor. If the Prof. Is trying to convey that Muslims are misuderstood, the Islamic would not have been rampant & brutal
mike says
it can be explained in one every simple word
Control
Control is the goal and always has been of Muslims
By forcing the face covering is the control which makes the wearer lose respect for there selves
then when one doesn’t ware a face covering the threat of punishment takes over
so which is easier
Wear the face covering or get beaten
FYI says
Yes,exactly.
The hijab/chador requirement has NOTHING to do with modesty as muslimas mistakenly think!
“If they do that{i.e wear the hijab} it will be known that they are free and that they are not servants or prostitutes”
Tafsir ibn kathir{33:-59}
hijab/Chador ON=good muslima/not slaves{‘free’}
hijab/Chador OFF=bad muslima/prostitute/servant/slave/decadent immoral infidel woman/not ‘free’
And the Burqa?”Woman doesn’t exist”
The perambulating letter box muslima?” women are such a cause of sin they need to be hidden completly lest muslim men go nuts and jump on them and that will be the woman’s fault of course”
allah does insist of course but ,due to his lack of omniscience,he cannot be any god.
And allah doesn’t like women anyway most of whom,according to muhammed, he sends to hell.
In the Biblical Narrative,in contrast..
“on a woman hair. is a thing of beauty.Her long hair has been given her to serve as a covering”
I Corinthians 11 v 15
So exposed hair is a thing of beauty,a covering and 100% natural.
But not for allah and his muslims as ‘it will be known” what a woman without a hijab represents.
hijab on-hijab off.good muslima-bad muslima,good woman-prostitute/infidel woman.
“it will be known..”
Thank God for infidel women and their gorgeous hair.
Ade says
“UK Muslim Prof” in total ignorance of taliban’s understanding of islam
somehistory says
Go East…to afghansitan, old mozlum guy; go and find out for yourself how the taliban “understand” islam.
So many mozlums; so many liars. When mozlums have so much control over people…as they do in afghanistan, iran, saudi arabia, etc., they can say it like their evil book of demonic filth says it.
When mozlums are still in the minority and wish to deceive others about what islam teaches, they lie and say things like this idiot liar.
James Lincoln says
Tim Winter AKA Abdal Hakim Murad is LYING.
That’s what muslims do.
David M says
Ah no, they know Islam quite well. Although the Islamic State Muslims are not happy with them & want them to go even further.