PRAYER HALL FOR WOMEN: The newly inaugurated mosque, Masjid-e-Noor, a
Muslim prayer house, has a unique feature of a prayer hall exclusively for
the ladies. (NT)
Backwardness on the part of Islamists is demonstrated here by seperating women from men in mosques - Taliban style. Muslim women are oppressed and should realize this. Taslima Nasrim demands that the Koran should be revised and updated. We hear of an Iranian professor sentenced to death for condemning theocracy (rule by the Ayatollahs). Ayatollah Khomeini who sought protection in France from the Shah's police, was the villain who took a Fatwa on Salman Rushdie for writing verse that was considered blasphemous. When will Islam bring itself in line with world thinking. They will relegate themselves to persecution as a result of their own folly.
Edgar Martins
