Saturday, July 15, 2006

Women's own mosque???

Ever heard of it??? Well neither have I?

In the small town of Pudukottai in Tamil Nadu, 40-year-old Sharifa Daud has started an all-woman Jamaat (Muslim personal law board)

and not surprisingly....

While these women have lost friends, been ostracised and are called names, Maulvis (Muslim preachers) and Imams (prayer leader and elder of mosque) are calling them anti-Islam.

and I am fairly sure, there will a lot of people, raising a fatwa for the head of the women who is asking for this.

Do read the story here