The time is here and now. The days of men counting female members of their families as stock and chatel must be brought to an end. It is not enough for Muslim moderates to tutt-tutt in disapproval or shake their heads in dismay whilst sitting on the fence of complacency; it is time for all moderates to raise their voices loud enough to drown-out the radical diatiribes spouted forth from the mouths of barely literate self-serving clerics, intent on poisining the minds of young hotheads.
90% (or more) of the world's one and a half billion Muslims are outraged by the horrific Taleban shooting of a heroic school girl, who dared to stand-up for women's rights within a male-dominated community in northern Pakistan... Mulala fighting for her young life 14 years-old Mulala Yousefzai may well become the iconic symbol for Muslim women to lead a march out of the medieval interpretation of Islam, into the caring , sharing, religion Islam was intended to be. Mulala's small gesture of defiance was tantamount to Muslim women, brandishing rolling-pins and using them to brain every Taleban Mullah and firebrand Muslim cleric, turbans and all.
The time is here and now. The days of men counting female members of their families as stock and chatel must be brought to an end. It is not enough for Muslim moderates to tutt-tutt in disapproval or shake their heads in dismay whilst sitting on the fence of complacency; it is time for all moderates to raise their voices loud enough to drown-out the radical diatiribes spouted forth from the mouths of barely literate self-serving clerics, intent on poisining the minds of young hotheads.
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Bayan al-Kassab
10/21/2012 06:30:22 am
Islam encouraged followers and human beings to 'seek knowlege from crib to grave'
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