Dream For All Female Mosque In New York City
May be paradoxically US as a overwhelmingly Christian country it may be ripe for a pioneering all female mosque never such thing known to exist in the whole moslem world. New York city is the best candidate for such first. NYC has such demographics and culture diversity blend to allow such new experiment under taking. With the men dominating mosques women do not have a chance but to assume a secondary role. It is hoped that some women with such pioneering vision and initiatives to assume such major step and accomplishment. This does not preclude men from being allies and extend support by generous contributions. It is time for women to assume a leading and equal role in the realm of mosques.
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Women do not stay at home any more. they go to work, schools, universities, recreation places. No they need to go mosques and meet the community and not to stay home like prisoner.
All female mosque important to have opportunity like to be leaders.
Run Date: 12/20/03
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1649/context/outrage
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A group of women in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu have decided to build the first all-female mosque in the country to counteract what they say are male-dominated rulings by "jamaats," congregations that meet in mosques and settle disputes.
Chaaya, an organization of village women, obtained the land and the permission to build the mosque, which will house its own jamaat, reported the Hindustan Times. Under Islamic law, women are normally banned from entering a mosque.
The group of women took action after finding that the male-dominated jamaats often handed down verdicts favoring men in family disputes, particularly in divorce cases
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-08/25/content_257969.htm
Female imam a first for Ningxia
( 2003-08-25 09:55) (Agencies)
Jin Meihua, a female imam, preaches in a very small courtyard in the Wunan Mosque in the city of Wuzhong in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
The 40-year-old Jin is among the first female imams in the region.
"My wish is to deliver virtue," said Jin.
Born into a religious family, she studied the Koran, the sacred text of Islam, under her father when she was very young. But, as a female, she could not go to mosques like her father. To help more women like herself to have the opportunity to learn the Koran and to pray in mosques, Jin decided to become an imam.
Last year, she passed the exam held by the Ningxia Islamic Association, and became one of eight female imams in Wuzhong. In Ningxia, where one-third of China's Hui minority lives, the number of registered imams is 5,000, but only 30 female ones.
The status of female imams is unique to China. "Religion should develop with the times, " said Hei Fuli, secretary of the Ningxia Islamic Association. "The emergence of female imams and mosques serving only women also goes along with the trend of the times."
http://hu-islam.blogspot.com/2004/12/female-imams-in-china.html
Female imams in China
A BBC article from September that I recently posted on my own blog. Thank you to my friend Sabeen, who pointed this out to me.
But Muslims in the (Ningxia, China) province are pushing forward the barriers of faith - with unique results. Jin Meihua is at the forefront of those changes. Her head covered with a lilac scarf, she teaches passages from the Koran to other women. The 40-year-old wife and mother is one of a handful of Chinese female imams.
"I felt I couldn't be a true Muslim if I didn't understand Islam. I craved knowledge, so I went to the imam and asked his permission to study in the mosque," she said.
"There were only men there, and no mosque for the women. He said it would be hard but after about a year of study, I got support from the other imams and the community."
Jin Meihua runs a mosque exclusively for women. While hers is attached to a male mosque, some female Muslims have set up their own completely independent mosques.
Note:
Women do not stay at home any more. they go to work, schools, universities, recreation places. No they need to go mosques and meet the community and not to stay home like prisoner.
All female mosque important to have opportunity like to be leaders.
Run Date: 12/20/03
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1649/context/outrage
(WOMENSENEWS)--
Cheers
A group of women in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu have decided to build the first all-female mosque in the country to counteract what they say are male-dominated rulings by "jamaats," congregations that meet in mosques and settle disputes.
Chaaya, an organization of village women, obtained the land and the permission to build the mosque, which will house its own jamaat, reported the Hindustan Times. Under Islamic law, women are normally banned from entering a mosque.
The group of women took action after finding that the male-dominated jamaats often handed down verdicts favoring men in family disputes, particularly in divorce cases
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-08/25/content_257969.htm
Female imam a first for Ningxia
( 2003-08-25 09:55) (Agencies)
Jin Meihua, a female imam, preaches in a very small courtyard in the Wunan Mosque in the city of Wuzhong in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
The 40-year-old Jin is among the first female imams in the region.
"My wish is to deliver virtue," said Jin.
Born into a religious family, she studied the Koran, the sacred text of Islam, under her father when she was very young. But, as a female, she could not go to mosques like her father. To help more women like herself to have the opportunity to learn the Koran and to pray in mosques, Jin decided to become an imam.
Last year, she passed the exam held by the Ningxia Islamic Association, and became one of eight female imams in Wuzhong. In Ningxia, where one-third of China's Hui minority lives, the number of registered imams is 5,000, but only 30 female ones.
The status of female imams is unique to China. "Religion should develop with the times, " said Hei Fuli, secretary of the Ningxia Islamic Association. "The emergence of female imams and mosques serving only women also goes along with the trend of the times."
http://hu-islam.blogspot.com/2004/12/female-imams-in-china.html
Female imams in China
A BBC article from September that I recently posted on my own blog. Thank you to my friend Sabeen, who pointed this out to me.
But Muslims in the (Ningxia, China) province are pushing forward the barriers of faith - with unique results. Jin Meihua is at the forefront of those changes. Her head covered with a lilac scarf, she teaches passages from the Koran to other women. The 40-year-old wife and mother is one of a handful of Chinese female imams.
"I felt I couldn't be a true Muslim if I didn't understand Islam. I craved knowledge, so I went to the imam and asked his permission to study in the mosque," she said.
"There were only men there, and no mosque for the women. He said it would be hard but after about a year of study, I got support from the other imams and the community."
Jin Meihua runs a mosque exclusively for women. While hers is attached to a male mosque, some female Muslims have set up their own completely independent mosques.
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