I would be a great Director of Muslim Affairs in the fed gov't. I would give all the Muslims in the US two choices, one of which involves swimming and the other involves rowing.
http://www.aina.org/news/20121029101841.htm**** *Muslim Cleric Condemns Christianity for Teaching Gender Equality* ** ** Posted GMT 10-29-2012 15:18:41 **** ** ** A recent talk show on the Egyptian station Al Hafiz partially explains why it is that Islam's clerics are staunchly against discussing Christian or biblical teachings in Egyptian schoolrooms--even as the teaching of the Quran is mandatory, for both Muslim and Christian students.**** Discussing Christianity's teachings concerning women, one of the guests, a sheikh dressed in traditional cleric garb, said they "truly stab the rulings of Islam." To exemplify, he read from a text that said "the Christian religion does not differentiate between women and men, but it confirms their perfect equality: it gives them an equal share in inheritance, it bans divorce, and it bans polygamy."**** "Now," said the sheikh, "if my son hears such things while he's in school, he'll come home and say to me, 'Father why do you have many wives? You are unjust--unlike Christianity which is full of justice'!"**** He went on to say that such teachings completely contradict "the religion of the prophet," who of course had many wives--more than the Quran's prescribed four--made divorce a simple matter for men, and decreed that females only inherit half of what males inherit.**** The cleric complained that, based on such Christian teachings, Muslim men who try to exercise their Islamic rights--including polygamy, double-inheritance, and easy divorce (recent examples include via text-messaging)--become "criminals, and the religion [Islam] that taught them such things taught them crimes."**** The cleric concluded by saying it is impermissible "to produce texts that contradict the teachings of the Quran, or the practices we've been raising our children on for a million years."**** ** ** -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
