Islamic Sharia Laws
DRUNKEN TALAQ: HOW SOME FATWAS DISTORT ISLAM AND OPPRESS WOMEN
The Darul Uloom Deoband and the All India Muslim Personal Law Board are in
the news again for the wrong reasons — the former for issuing another
misogynist fatwa, and the latter for supporting the former's obscurantism.
The misfeasance in question this time is the pronouncement that talaq
uttered by a Muslim husband in a drunken state is valid. This nonsensical
ruling has once again exposed the medieval bias of some Muslim clerics. This
fatwa is not just bad in law but also bad in theology, as it is not based on
the Quran, the locus classicus of Islam. The Deoband muftis have been honest
enough to concede that their recent articulation is grounded in the Hanafi
law. It is common knowledge among Muslims that the Hanafi fiqh contains many
provisions that are repugnant to reason. For instance, according to
Al-Marghinani's Hedaya, one of the most celebrated treatises of Hanafi legal
thought, the wife of a missing or absconding husband can remarry only after
a minimum of 90 years have elapsed from the day of his birth. -- A. FAIZUR
RAHMAN
Muslim personal law board betrays word, spirit of Quran: The Quran
repeatedly asserts that "no change can there be in the words of Allah
[10.64]". It means that for any rule or law, to be Islamic, it must be
consistent with the provisions of the Quran. Once this position is accepted
it will become easy to make the distinction between "Quranic laws" that
release mankind "from their heavy burdens and from the yokes that are upon
them [7.157]" and the "cleric laws" that "mislead [men] by their appetites
unchecked by knowledge [6.119]". -- Arif Mohammed Khan
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Islamic World News
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2. Indonesians ignore religious edicts against smoking, yoga
3. Shining a light on Islam's hidden scientific treasure
4. Most wanted Nazi converted to Islam, died in Egypt
5. World Muslim Scholars to Meet In Kuala Lumpur
6. Islam, democracy, human rights compatible – Shirin Ebadi
7. German, Tunisian sentenced in synagogue attack
8. Austria debates democratic credentials of its Islam teachers
9. CAIR Welcomes Obams's Islamic Reference
10. Iraq's Maliki emerges as forceful nationalist
11. Terror suspects maintain contact with terrorist groups
12. Editor Upholds Ideology of Iran's Islamic Revolution
13. Hamas are Sunnis! - Tariq Alhomayed
14. Anti-Islam UK teacher sues bosses for 100 K pounds
15. Fearful erosion of liberties -- Andrew Shaw
Compiled by Syed Asadullah
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Islamic World News
"Prison Muslims" fastest growing religious group in the US
2. Poetry contests in Saudi Arabia anger Grand Mufti
3. How democracy loses its footing in Middle East by Joel Brinkley
4. Under Obama, `war on terror' catchphrase fading
5. Obama and the War on Terror -- the real thing
6. Why Obama's Message is Not Complete by Samar Fatany
7. Muslims should see Gaza not merely as a tragedy for the Islamic world
8. In Kufa, Shiites bemoan Sadr movement's diminished role
9. Iran Detains Three Women's Activists - Campaigner
10. Dhaka: Indian cleric leads world Islamic meet prayer
11. Fighting violence against women Katherine Bradstreet
12. Smoking still popular despite Ulema edict by Kyle Taylor
13. Islamic association seeks to teach Americans about the Quran
14. Ismailia: Egyptian Islamic activist detained at Gaza border
15. Women refuse refuge due to nearby mosque by Esther Harward
16. Small US bank goes Islamic
17. Slain Exile Detailed Chechen Ruler's Systematic Cruelty by C. J. Chivers
18. Ghaza: Muslim world showers praise on Turkish PM
19. Some see Mumbai terrorism as an attack on India-Israel ties By Peter
Spiegel
Compiled by Syed Asadullah
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Islam and Pluralism
Darul Harb versus Darul Aman: Can Pakistan or Saudi Arabia be considered a
Land of peace for Muslims?
Pakistani blogger Mr. Aamir Mughal has raised a very important issue in a
comment posted in relation to the article below: Demolish Kafir/ Mushrik/
Munafiq-manufacturing factories, says Sultan Shahin, defending New Age Islam
against Talibani onslaught
http://newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1143 which
needs to be debated threadbare- that of Darul Harb and Darul Aman. I live in
India. Suppose I were to consider it a Darul Hrab - which of course, I don't
- on the basis of the mere fact of it being a non-Muslim majority country -
though it would appear that only so-called Darul Harbs are Darul Amans,
lands of peace, in today's world - which Darul Aman, a Muslim country, would
accept me as a full-fledged citizen, that India accepts me as? Pakistan will
not even give me a visit visa, perhaps, unless I give it a host of false and
forged documents. Saudi Arabia and all other Arab or Muslim countries, I can
live and work there, if I find a job, for hundreds of years, but I would
never get any citizenship rights. Only countries that I can think of which
can give me full citizenship rights as India does would be countries of the
West, like the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, other European countries. It
won't be easy but it is doable. However, according to Mr. Aamir Mughal's
definition, these are all Darul-Harbs, so what would be the point of
shifting from one Darul Harb to another? What kind of Islam and what kind of
Darul Harbs and Darul Amans are you talking about Mr. Aamir Mughal? Do you
consider Pakistan a Darul Aman for Muslims, where Muslims are killed
routinely during prayers in mosques, and where even the Muslims for whom
this country was created do not get even visit visas?
Sultan Shahin, editor, New Age Islam
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