Comments on: Christian And Muslim Women Plan Dialogue

By: A Free Spirit

A Free Spirit — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:08:40 +0000

I suppose the question might involve how two parties can learn to disagree. I must admit the rigidity sanctioned under the rubric of religion would not be acceptable in other domains. Perhaps this means there is a larger problem…

By: Friday Links — September 26, 2008 « Muslimah Media Watch

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[...] chronicles the inter-religious dialogue conference held in [...]

By: Aafke

Aafke — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:16:08 +0000

Sunni hackers attacked Shia sites during ramadan?

Sometimes I think Muslims, and all faiths, should be spending their time studying religion instead of attacking each other!

So is there an outcome to this convention?

By: Sumera

Sumera — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:52:24 +0000

Agree Poverty, illiteracy and ignorance are grave problems

By: Barbara

Barbara — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:16:36 +0000

Dearest Shraazad, lovely post as always. God’s childrens ‘religions’ show where humanitys heart is by each individual’s words and actions. In working with people incarcerated, I feel it’s not only poverty, illiteracy and violence which persist in so many nations of the world. Single mothers don’t have the time to give to their children and more and more kids are being raised without a father figure and in gangs or on their own; because of the money for drug lords, people are afraid to go out in their neighborhoods and drug abuse is rampant. So many don’t put themselves in the other’s shoes and we’re losing compassion (and violent movies full of lustful instead of loving sex, taking advantage of the ones who can’t fend for themselves, foul language, etc.) and people who have stand for their principles are pretty much forced now to accept or shut up instead of stand up for their values. Personal standards and ethics have been prostituted. I truly believe in the positive input women who truly ‘practice’ what they preach worldwide can do for humanity. We are the first ones our sons learn to trust as babies when we bring them into the world, we’re their confidants later in life, and we are the opposite side of the coin in regards to our mates (yin & yang; strong & weak; night & day – balance.

By: Fatemeh

Fatemeh — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:53:29 +0000

Salam!
(enthusiastically nodding head throughout blog post)

By: Haleem

Haleem — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:43:07 +0000

One other thing I noticed is that, for example there was an earthquake in Pakistan sometime ago, Canada sent a lot (A LOT) of aid.

Few years later, there was some dispute with Canada in Afghanistan, and the same Pakistanis were marching on the streets with “Death to Canada” signs. Don’t they remember?

How can the world help Muslims if some of them don’t want to be helped?

By: Haleem

Haleem — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:41:54 +0000

This is mashAllah good to see. Poverty and illiteracy is the biggest obstacle to Muslims, as far as I can see.

By: Salacious Samosa

Salacious Samosa — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:27:21 +0000

I concur Sharazad! You are absolutley correct!

I am working on a hate crimes project in Canada. And you would not believe the level of secterian anomosity I discovered through the course of my work. In fact I noticed more hate coming from within the Muslim community than other faiths. It was just so disconcerting and sheer madness. If we can’t unite within our commuity how on earth are we going to tackle issues such as human rights infringements and mistreatment of Muslims all over the world? I mean this secterian division is contradictory to the work that so many Islamic orginizations are claiming to propogate. We eventually had to organize one of our biggest events in a mosque that did not welcome any other sect either than the majority. Anyway, I still went ahead and prayed the way I had to and said I was whom I was when people asked me.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been bullied by my own Muslim community for the work I do to help everyone. It really is a battle in itself to try to persevere and continue on a correct and fair path. Anyway, bravo for bringing this point up!

xoxox
S

By: Umm Ibrahim

Umm Ibrahim — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:25:15 +0000

Indeed you are right and also ‘Dubai Guy’… spot on!

By: Shahrzad

Shahrzad — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:35:43 +0000

I actually wrote this, after reading a news yesterday that extremist Sunni hackers (Salafi?!) hacked 200 and so Shiite sites and in response today, Shiite hachers hacked some of their sites.

It’s so funny. While we have many many many problems (no need to count now), and while we try to raise inter-religious dialogues, we fail to tolerate each other and simply respect each others.

We have something like The world forum for proximity of Islamic schools of thought.
But it’s just about scholars and do not really help the majority.

By: Dubai Guy

Dubai Guy — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:19:42 +0000

“we have bigger problems than attacking each others. Poverty , illiteracy and violence in some muslim countries continue to persist”

I couldn’t agree more. I belive the main reason behind our decline as a Muslim nation is because we have mixed up our priorities. We give too much attention to petty things & end up neglecting the real issues. May Allah help & guide us & our leaders, both religious & political.