Sunday, August 24, 2008

Mullah says Female Officiated Wedding a 'Cruel Joke on Islam'...

A Muslim marriage in northern India officiated by women has sparked an angry debate, with one of the most influential Islamic seminaries in South Asia calling it an affront to the religion.
Naish Hasan, the 28-year-old bride and a women's rights activist, and Imran Ali, the 41- year-old groom, were married last week in a ceremony that is believed to be the first of its kind in India.
Muslim marriages are traditionally officiated by a man, often a local community leader. The signing of the wedding contract is also witnessed by four Muslim males, two each for the bride and groom.
But the marriage last week in the northern city of Lucknow was presided over by a woman and all the witnesses were female. The only man involved in the wedding was Ali.
Women's rights activists have greeted the marriage as a symbolic step forward for Muslim women, but the ceremony sparked a firestorm of criticism from conservative Islamic institutions, especially the Dar-ul-Uloom seminary in northern India.
The seminary is an intellectual hub for South Asian Muslims. Many of its theologians have publicly denounced terrorism but their work has nonetheless provided the intellectual underpinning for some of the most radical and violent Islamic movements in the region, such as the Taliban in Afghanistan.
An official at Dar-ul-Uloom, Ahmad Khizar Shah Masudi, called the marriage a "cruel joke on (Islamic) laws."
Another Muslim group, the Lucknow Idgah Committee, has said the marriage is invalid under Islamic law.
Hasan, the bride, works for Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Aandolan, or the Indian Muslim Women's Movement, a rights group that seeks a greater role for women in Indian Muslim society.
Hasan brushed off the criticism. "I do not care. Islam says there cannot be anyone between Allah and his disciple. How come these clergymen are interfering in our matter?" she said.
India, a predominantly Hindu country with a sizable Muslim minority, allows marriage, divorce and inheritance matters to be determined by religious laws, and the couple's unorthodox ceremony was approved by the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, which sets the rules on Muslim religious matters.

Source: The Sudbury Star (Posted by the Associated Press)

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous9:31 PM

    HAHAHAHAH ru removing my comments now miss gabu Qaroonu????? Why what ever happened to your tolerence?????

    And even blocked me from fbook? don't yu want me to see the goody two shoes comments yu write on your loabiva friends walls anymore??

    you know i doubt if this blog would have been there is women could have four wives

    but since daddy(BURUMA GASIM)is marryin 18yr old whores left right and center, and since your mommy is prohibiting you from enjoyin the night life in Edinburgh, it's either this or going bak to that lonely apartment and fingerin urself to oblivion!!!!

    i wait for the day when you would post a picture of ur daddy BURUMA GASIM drillin his 4wives and condemnin polygany

    and jus think what would happen to this maldives if daddy's wet dream of becomin president becomes a reality!!! we would see harems poppin everywhere won't we???

    AND I DON'T THINK DELETING THESE CAN UNDO WHAT IT HAS DONE HEHEH....YES MUIZZ KNOWS WHO YOU ARE!!! BETTER KEEP OFF MSA-UK MEETINGS MARIYAM SAMA!!!!!!!!!

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  2. Anonymous9:34 PM

    OH ALMOST FORGOT
    WHO IN HIS RIGHT MIND WANTS THIS RETARD TO BECOME PRESIDENT>>>
    http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=n2TOPN7BmWc

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  3. Anonymous2:35 PM

    really a son of gasim? cant belive so

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