Feb 18
Number of Views: 20 Views
Feb 18
Number of Views: 35 Views 
I’ve just watched the “Doha Debates” episode on Muslim women right to marry who they choose (i.e. non-Muslim men). [Click here to watch it]
And here are the main points that I wished I could have voiced:
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- Both men and women can -legally- marry whoever they want, but if these marriages do not comply to the rules of Islam, then this marriage is religiously void. So it’s not an issue of free will as discussed during the episode, but rather an issue of adhering to Islam.
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- No one brought up the point that Muslim men are not free to marry whoever they want! A Muslim man can not marry a Buddhist woman or a Sikh woman or an atheist, even when they marry a non-Muslim, she has to be either a practising Christian or a practising Jew. So restrictions are there for both sexes, it happened that the restriction level for women is higher, that’s it.
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- Now why can’t women marry non-Muslim men, what is the morale behind it, and I was expecting that these points are to be brought up.
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Let’s be realistic, all societies are patriarchal, and it is the innate nature of men; their psychological makeup is that they want to have the say. That’s why they are fond of cars and football, they tend to control, be it a ball or the steering wheel. and it is islamically inappropriate for a woman to be in a car where she has not full sway over the steering wheel, where she is not sure about the journey, iternary, and destination. When a Muslim man marries a Christian or a Jew, Islam obliges him to give his wife the freedom to practise her religion, but what guarantees that a Muslim woman who marries a non-Muslim won’t face such things as: “ain’t you praying too much?” or “I don’t want our children to fast”.
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- I think even if there is no verse in the Holy Qura’n or a hadeeth that says that Muslim women can not marry a non-Muslim, it is an issue of common sense that this marriage is not in her own favour as a Muslim, as a woman maybe, but not as a Muslim.
Mar 10
Number of Views: 368 Views I have just watched this wonderful video. I liked its “mirror mirror on the wall” resemblance.
But I did not like the fact that it stands against cosmetics and lotions! Are hijabi’s supposed not to look good and wear nice clothes and apply makeup? No, we could as long as there are no non-mahram men around.
Another note is why the white hijab the lady was wearing not ironed, It looked really shabby. 
Why do some Muslims -just like non-Muslims- assume that donning the hijab equals looking pathetic?
Feb 27
Number of Views: 1,451 Views 
Dr. Zakir Naik is in Kuwait.
He’s presenting a public lecture on the concept of God in religions.
Friday, February 29th, 2008
6:30 PM
Touristic Park, Jileeb Alshuyookh.
Near Indian Central School in Abbasiya.
Dec 26
Number of Views: 499 Views
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