Yahoo News chose this AFP picture to go along with the Jordanian romance story. Is this a fair representation of Jordanian women? I think not. And you wonder how stereotypes are created! Hat tip: [Scooby] |
Yahoo News chose this AFP picture to go along with the Jordanian romance story. Is this a fair representation of Jordanian women? I think not. And you wonder how stereotypes are created! Hat tip: [Scooby] |
Whats wrong with learning my bible and learning about the Quran as well Jareer?
Linda,
go to my first comment up read what St. Peter says in this regard. Rania’s opinion, or kardawi is not what you need to understand. Understand your own bible.
When she discusses Khimar’s background, she closes out right before the third rule with this that I think should answer your question:
Ammar,
Thank you for saying that because that is what I was trying to say. I made the mistake of just attaching religion to the way the women were dressed, and I should have not. My apologies. None the less, I do believe in respecting and being open minded of how other people dress.
But I do have some questions about Queen Rania’s Letter. I am not Muslim and have never read the Quran, but would very much like to, so if someone can suggest a good English version, please help me out with that.
But for my questions, Rania states:
If this is so, then why does God leave the definition of modesty open to be defined by different communities and cultures, as stated here?: “God knows that we will be living in different communities and have different cultures and insists that the minor details of this dress code will be left for the people of every community to hammer for themselves.”
If we are to rely on our culture to define modesty, are we not then worshiping an idol? Who defines modesty in the culture and communities? Is it up to ourselves, or up to the culture everyone is following? If we are to follow the culture, it will become apparent that the culture will then become, over time, the main resource to define everything.
Please help me with this; because I feel I do not understand Rania’s explanations.
I believe the issue here is not to make islamic fatawa’s. Respecting others’ opinions, dress, whatever is an issue.
I agree with Natasha that publishing such a photo is not relevant to the story, sometimes we can blame ourselves, othertimes it’s foriegn media.
Dressing like this or not is not a 21st century issue. I know lots of people in jordan still living in medevial ages( Goths ). Beind open minded and accepting other people is what it’s all about.
True, true…
Yes see. But when we try to tell the religious types amongst us that “khimar” doesn’t mean head-cover and they should take that bloody piece of curtain off of their heads (and certainly not impose it on the rest of us), we hear “oh but you are not versed enough to understand the many wonders of the Quran and it’s hidden meanings!” And what ensues is a whole sorry list of why the western women is being exploited because she doesn’t cover her head and how hijab ’empowers’ women by protecting them from the man-animal…
I have come across this article a while back and I have read somewhere that its authenticity came under question. Nevertheless, it conveys the message and thanks you much for posting Roba. It saved me hours of trying to look up verses and references to back up what I was about to say. I was only going to tackle the issue of khimar and save myself the headache of arguing about hijab. Apparently, I could count on the open-minded cohort who reads this blog to mirror my opinion.
Wow, who has the time to read all that. There are too many “muftis” those days, and each “fatweh” contradicts the other !
Hey! I managed to convey the same message in 6 lines without going on forever waxing nostalgia about how Islam is oh-so-yummy the way her majesty does and Roba is credited with the interesting insight. Not fair!
For the photos, here’s a mirror for Rania and one for Natalie.