Posted on 02/24/2010 3:28:25 PM PST by combat_boots
Just as with Rifqa Bary, Islamic supremacists are perverting our rule of law to serve sharia.
Washington DC Police Enforcing Sharia Law: Remove Women Trying to Pray in Mosque's Main Prayer Room... The Islamic Center of Washington has the DC cops doubling as the Mutaween (Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice)... (WAMU)- Some women who protested at the Islamic Center of Washington, wanting to be able to worship in the main prayer hall with their male counterparts, were asked to leave by the police. But they say their struggle will continue. Carpets with intricate designs cover the floors of the main prayer hall and turquoise tiles line the walls. But the source of contention is a small room created with seven foot high wooden walls. Jannah Bint Hannah describes how she feels in there where she cannot see the imam, or leader of the mosque, speak. Boxed in, stifling, suffocating and totally a second class citizen, says Hannah. Over the weekend, Hannah and approximately 20 other women prayed in the main hall, but D.C. police were called. They asked them to leave or be arrested. Syed Burmi, the imam of Islamic Society of Western Maryland, says the physical separation helps maintain womens privacy and modesty as well as keeps the focus on prayer. If I stand next to a lady or a woman stands next to me, maybe the focus will change and no longer be on God the Almighty. So thats why we put the partition, says Burmi.
In two out of every three American mosques, women of separate prayer spaces around the country.
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Would you please add in the link? Forgot it. Must step back from the keyboard....
sounds like water fountains, buses and lunch counters of the past.
The “best” part is that the Washington Post reported the women’s protest without including the part about the DC police.
Exactly! And private businesses were told they HAD to let people sit where they want, etc... (which I agree with) but a church can enforce the same bigotted laws?
Islam is the mark of the beast. Everyday I am convinced of that more. Sharia Law/Financing is the ‘buy/sell’ aspect. If you don’t comply, you don’t get to function.
Done, thanks.
It's their business. This is America and this is religious liberty. If the women don't care to submit to Islam's laws they can go elsewhere.
I'd be upset if the DC police went and shot a woman to death because she switched to a better religion, but not when all this involves is the seating chart in the mosque.
It’s private property. She was trespassing.
Seperate prayer areas are common in many religions (mine, for example).
In Orthodox Judaism, men and women are seperated to prevent distraction from the business at hand (worship).
Great post, now our own police are enforcing Sharia. Our system is an absolute joke to Muslims.
Jews are now looking to impose religious laws on the country, try and stick to the threat.
Our word "Mezzanine" is derived from the Arabic word "Mezzanine" which refers to the elevated platform where women sit above the men in the mosque.
Our word "Mezzanine" enables us to delete the 13th floor button on elevators and still end up with the actual floor count at the top!
What this is another example of how Muslims use our freedoms to advance their agenda.
“Jews are now looking to impose religious laws on the country”
Since when? I’ve never seen a Jewish person outside of Edah HaChareidis in Israel seek to impose religious laws on anyone.
Look, part of religious liberty is that the adherents make their own rules.
From reading the article it seems these “devout” Muslims actually invited infidel cops to enter their Mosque - even their main prayer hall - to tell the women to leave! Devout Muslim women are held to be even lower than the infidel? I’ll bet the cops even wore their shoes!
Actually you are wrong. The section Group Prayers and the Imam of the “Reliance of the Traveller” speaks about separating the men and women. This book has the stamp of approval from Al Azhar, the highest learning Islamic school in the world. When you know more about Islam than them, please let me know. I really do not care where that word comes from. Islam is the anti-thesis of America, and it shoud of never been allowed to be practiced here in the first place. I also do not care about other religions, as other religions are not on a worldwide jihad.
Sorry for the typo, it should be “not”.
It was a typo, and you might want to educate yourself that Islam useds the freedoms of the West to destroy it from within.
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