UK – Islamic preachers: the pied pipers of sexual apartheid? – Telegraph
2014/02/12 1 Comment
More on the ongoing controversy, and ongoing activities, of fundamentalist preachers and the requirement for gender segregation at UK universities:
The speaker this time was Ustadh Alomgir Ali, a lecturer from Haddad’s Muslim Research and Development Foundation. His audience comprised men at the front and women – the majority of whom waited outside in the rain before the lecture began while the men gathered inside – at the back. Although there were no signs enforcing segregation, he spoke at length in favour of gender division and of a “crisis in society”, with the relationship between men and women in need of correction.
“In Islam, we have laid down certain prohibitions because it leads on to other sins,” he told his audience. “The first important point you must learn at university is lowering the gaze.”
His lecture concluded with some advice. “Brothers and sisters, the important thing is to learn etiquette of modesty, lowering your gaze, avoiding touching the opposite gender and avoiding unnecessary socialising with the opposite gender.”
Islamic preachers: the pied pipers of sexual apartheid? – Telegraph.
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If women are such a temptation for men – and it seems they are – then there is another road: develop a sense of chivalry, learn to be a gentleman, discipline and channel the brute, treat women – and maybe men too – however they are dressed, with courtesy and consideration.. It is interesting that the more women are segregated and downtrodden, the more violence there is against women, and the more odious forms that violence takes. This ideology of segregation is in itself a form of violence, and very male-narcissistic and arrogant in a – excuse me – despicable and infantile way – even if some of the acolytes and preachers hide behind beards. It downplays the fact that women, are, among other things, human beings. Also – freedom is in itself, and for everybody – an essential value. The more you downgrade women, the more, as a result, you will deprive their children, male and female, so you get high levels of illiteracy and massively failed societies full of rancor, hate, and sectarian division.