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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a Muslim woman who doesn't wear hijab, I found her article refreshing. I think it's good to hear different persoectives and for outsiders to see that Muslims are not some  monolothic group that think the same. There is a diversity of views in th Islamic world. I have no issue with women who CHOOSE the hijab.  But to me, a hijab is not representative of the Islamic world. In fact, no one in my very large extended family or among my Muslim friends and aquaintances covers. This may no be representative of others but this is my experience. [/quote]

My dear, do you know her qualifications? I do. I also know her. She can not understand Quranic arabic so how is she any authority on its interpretation? Her opinion is as valuable as my housekeeper's on anything to do with interpreting Quranic arabic and islamic principles.   [/quote]

Once again the preoccupation with credentials.

You forget Asra Nomani has a co-author, Hala Arafa, an Egyptian born journalist (in Arabic).  She certainly would have learned Quranic Arabic in school.  And, of course, as journalists they have easy access to any number of Islamic scholars.

Show me an Islamic theologian who thinks the question of whether a woman should wear hijab or not is an important question in Islam and I will show you a blithering idiot.  This is an issue of no consequence to a true theologian.  It has been totally made up by a certain strain of extremist Islamists with little real knowledge of Islam.[/quote]

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