Posted on 03/10/2011 7:06:13 PM PST by george76
Muslim women have been banned from traveling more than 48 miles from their homes without being chaperoned by a male relative, according to a fatwa issued by one of Islam's leading universities.
The ruling was made by the Darul Uloom Deoband, the leading Islamic university founded in northern India in 1866, which has millions of followers from Bangladesh and Pakistan to Muslim communities in Britain.
Its fatwa was issued after a female follower had asked: "Is a married woman permitted to travel to another country with her female sibling?"
In a reply on the Deoband website, she was told:"She cannot travel without a 'mehram' [male relative]. It's mentioned in the Hadees that a woman should not travel for more than 48 miles except in the company of a 'mehram' relative."
Its response, which was delivered on International Women's Day
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Buy them all a Chevy Volt. They are a hell of a lot easier to find than a 48 mile leash.
These Muslim clerics really have become sooo liberal! It used to be women couldn’t leave the house! What’s next? Letting women drive cars? (/sarc)
So what happens at 48.1? Beheading? Stoning?
They shouldn’t travel more than 2000 miles from home...it’s so very lonely.
LOL! I read the title and you beat me to the punch. The Volt is the perfect car for a Muslim woman from a car company run and named after a Muslim.
We need in a rule in America that says “No Kenyan is allowed within 48 miles of the White House”.
GMTA! That 48 mile thing turned on the light for me. LOL!
“These Muslim clerics really have become sooo liberal! It used to be women couldn’t leave the house! What’s next? Letting women drive cars? (/sarc)”
I was thinking the same. This cleric is going to get his head taken off for letting women stray this far.
In seriousness, I’m thinking this guy is trying to show how liberal he is...relative to how most Muslim women are forced to live...48 miles is a LONG way from home, for a woman alone (in that sick part of the world).
Naaz Raza of the Muslim women’s group Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan, said no muslim woman could follow the fatwa today.
“This is rubbish. The Hadith was said 1,400 years ago and at that time there were hundreds of dangers for a women to travel alone beyond a particular limit but now traveling for women is safe. They should think a thousand times before issuing such fatwas. Islam never forces anything on anyone.
Traveling alone or with or without a companion should be a personal choice,” she said.
Confusing. For example can another cleric issue a counter-fatwa?. If so, who wins? Do they take it to a higher authority to decide which 'fatwa' is the one to obey?
I think I’m third in line on the Volt post thingee!!
To Western women marrying muslim “men:”
Got that, ladies? Remember, you are property now, and you are forbidden to travel so much as a millimeter beyond 48 miles.
So there. Enjoy your life.
They may even look up to heterosexual Christian barrel chested freedom fighters one day...
LOL! I think we’ve come up with a solution to the problem. The Chevy Volt! Like Iraq.
Goll, why don’t they just put a dog collar around their necks and tie them to a tree. Give them a bowl of water and some food in a dish. Oh I forgot they are slaves as well, gotta keep the house clean and completely take care of the kids, until they become walking time bombs. Hmmmmm, what to do, what to do.
WTF??? Muzzies are seriouly f'en insane. Are they measuring distance or time??? I am intreagued because this is one of the crazyest things i have ever heard. What if she is driving a porsche through the desert or a camel on a highway?
If i can go back in time Mohammed would not be around today and all this BS would just go away.
“Muslim women activists who said it was based on conditions in the Arabian peninsula more than 1,400 years ago and no longer relevant in the modern world. “
Idiots. If this doesn’t apply today, what about the rest?
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