Dr amina wadud biography of william

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Woman leads controversial US prayer

Amina Wadud, a professor of Islamic studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, said the service she was leading was “only one aspect of emphasising the belief in the reality that women are equal” under Islam.

“We claim that we have primordial rights … to acknowledge the reciprocal rights of women and men to attain moral excellence (in Islam),” Wadud said, addressing a congregation of 80 to 100 men and women attending the service at Synod House at the Cathedral of St John the Divine, an Anglican church in Manhattan.

The service drew protests and has stirred controversy internationally because many Muslims say that only men are empowered to lead other men in prayer.

Nasir al-Husaini, Aljazeera’s correspondent in New York reported around 90 male and female non-Arab Muslims attended the prayers. Fewer than 10 people protested outside the church, he said.

To break religious traditions, female worshippers lined up in the first rows, saying they had broken what they have called “limitations imposed by extremists against women in the mosques treating their spiritual rights unjustly”.

Many of the women in attendance were modestly dressed and, in accordance with Islamic tradition, covered their hair with the hijab, or headscarf. But oth

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A recent decision by Brandeis University (founded in 1948 as a nonsectarian Jewish community-sponsored, coeducational institution) to take back its offer to give Ayaan Hirsi Ali an honorary doctorate hit the media with the usual storm over such a controversial figure.

Most of the resistance to her, as a public figure, comes because of her own categorical statements against Islam. Not only does she choose to be an atheist, but she lambasts those who do not make her same choice. Her sweeping statements are meant to galvanize support against the Islam she has suffered from both as a child in a conservative family and as colleague of a brutally murdered film maker. She lost her bid for refugee status in Holland for lying about her past and was taken lovingly into the arms of certain institutions (like the conservative think tank, American Enterprise Institute  and tea party politicians, like Pamela Gellar). All manner of official trickery was put in her favor such that she enjoys something millions of her country men and women from Somalia would probably never hope to see: US citizenship and institutional support.

It is difficult for me to write why I support the decision of Brandeis University to take back their offer to honor her (although this does not answer the important qu