Banyak diantara kita yang mendapatkan pencerahan dari ide-ide dalam agama Islam
Tapi merasa bahwa protokol di dalamnya perlu di mutakhirkan
samudjo
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From: Mary Harahap
To: Helen Lok ; Anita Fenton ; Frances Affandy ; Marjie Suanda ; Bulantrisna
Djelantik Soejoto ; Elaine Nissen ; Ilsa Nelwan ; Joan Hardjono
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 1:08 PM
Subject: Birth of a New Islam in the US
Birth of a New Islam in the US
By Judith Rueff
Lib�ration
Friday 18 March 2005
Led by young progressives who want to break with conservatism - which does
not prevent them from being very pious - this movement, which is still very
much a minority one, was born after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
A researcher at the Ecole des hautes �tudes en sciences sociales [School
for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences] (EHESS), Malika Zeghal works on
"Islam and Power" in contemporary societies - in particular, the United States.
She answers questions from Lib�ration on Friday while, for the first time,
mixed prayer is being led by a Muslim woman in New York.
Who is Amina Wadud, this American Muslim woman who is creating a scandal by
preaching today in New York?
She's an intellectual, a professor at the University of Virginia, an
Afro-American who converted to Islam and who knows Arabic very well. She is a
specialist on the question of women in the Koran and wants to re-read the
Muslim religion from the inside. For example, Amina Wadud wears the veil, but
she may take it off; she has not made it an issue of principle. She questions
patriarchal Islam, is totally opposed to stoning and polygamy. Against literal
interpretation, she justifies this position by asserting that the Koran is a
historic text and that she sees the spirit of Islam in history. While she
preaches the absolute equality of men and women, her approach is totally
individualistic; she claims to speak for herself only.
Nonetheless, she is representative of a tendency among American Muslims?
She belongs to a new reform Islam that is in the process of being born in
the United States and that has no equivalent anywhere else. At issue is a still
very minor current revealed by September 11. The 2001 attacks allowed this
movement, which wants to be open to ethnic and other minorities, to express
itself openly. It has conquered public space, notably by using the Internet.
Some accuse these progressive Muslims of playing Bush's game, and even of being
nothing but creatures of the CIA, but, in fact, there is rather a convergence
of interests between them and the Bush administration. The believers in
reformist Islam are not always in agreement with the methods used to fight
against Islamic terrorism, but they benefit from the opportunity to virulently
criticize Salafist fundamentalism.
Is this reformist American Islam limited to the East Coast?
No, it's all over the United States, but it's a current that is very
fragmented into many groups which communicate and debate on numerous websites
(See, for example, Muslim WakeUp!). Its representatives are youth of the new
generation, born in the United States, raised in the religion, but who refuse
to practice it as their parents did. They don't want conservative Islam any
more, with its mosques established in ethnic enclaves, often in the suburbs of
big cities. Among them are students, journalists, women who don't wear the veil
but who define themselves as very pious, and others who wear the hidjab. And
there are also black Americans, because the movement tries to get beyond the
chasm that remains very deep between "Black Muslims" (40% of the 5-6 million
Muslims who live on American soil) and Indo-Pakistani or Arab Muslims.
How are these new Muslims perceived by their co-religionists in the United
States?
No mosque in New York wanted to welcome Amida Wadud's preaching, and she
also prefers to keep her distance from conservative mosques: consequently,
prayers were held in a Soho art gallery.[1] Last year the journalist and writer
Asra Nomani, of Pakistan, was barred from her mosque for having argued in favor
of women's using the front door, reserved for men. That is to say that the
movement is still marginal, even if some now want to open their own mosque.
[1]Following a bomb alert, the service would take place in a conference
room, according to the New York Times.
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