Islam and Politics Babri masjid dispute: Finding a solution That any temple built at Ayodhya will have been built on the blood of so many innocent lives, and by imperilling so many moral and constitutional principles, ought to be a matter of shame for most Hindus who care about Ram. This is an issue on which there is unlikely to be any settlement that appears just, and there are no guarantees that even a settlement will lay many of the murderous edges of Indian politics to rest. But it will take a divisive issue off the agenda and potentially transform our politics. There is no option other than to try. As a society we long gave up on justice. At the present conjuncture, we can only hope that we will at least opt for prudence. -- Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Through the 20-minute documentary – Bone of Contention — by Saurabh Pandey, not just this but also Ayodhya's inhabitants desire to come out of the viciousness of past stands out remarkably.... One message that comes out loud from the film is that an amicable solution to the mandir-masjid problem can be found by the people of Ayodhya, given the fact that there is no 'outside' interference. -- Abid Shah 1 Comments More.. http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1185 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 More... http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1181 Islamic World News Egyptian Cleric explains Wife-Beating in Islam 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 More.. http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=1179 -- Syed M. Asadullah -- Syed M. Asadullah --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Asalam o Alaikum, You Are Receiving This Message, Because You Are A Member Of FOCUS ON ISLAM, A Google Group [..:: The Best Group For Nice Islamic Mails ::..] \/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<>\/ You can Post Your Comments and Suggestions to Me [Moderator of this Group] on this email address: [email protected] To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.google.com/group/focusonislam/ To post messages/mails to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Please forward our Mails to Your friends, and convence them to join our Group. Wanna subscribe to this group, send email to [email protected] \/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<<<<>>>>\/<>\/ *********************************************************** The Official Website of Group is LAUNCHED, http://www.geocities.co -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
