Mosque is Cold Place For Women in America

It is unfortunate but it is true that many women feel cut off and obscure when they go for mosques prayers. It depends on a mosque to mosque of course, however, the complete separation of sexes even within one family is uninviting and to some degree takes the joy out of going to mosques. This explains that the percentage of females in mosque is very low. In some mosques women stopped going there at all. The wisdom of strict separation of women and women in mosques is the fear and suspicion of this turn the mosque into a dating club and what follows sexual liaison. In prayer halls women near men is afraid that men will be more thinking about women and fantasizing than deeply devoting their minds and prayers to god. In real life man and woman are intermingled in all aspects of life then why artificially build this wall of separation between men and women in mosques. In dining rooms in some mosques for examples women and men dine in separate rooms. Some of these actions are based on the ethnic country background of the dominant group in the mosque. Some argues that there is no obligation for women to go for Friday prayer for example, while this is true but times have changed and women go every where in walks of life and assumes all kind of jobs very close to men. So mosques should keep an open eye to that and show more open love and hospitalities for Moslem women when they go to mosque.