Monday, October 5, 2009

Tantawi to ban niqab

Egypt's highest Muslim authority has said he will issue a religious edict against the growing trend for full women's veils, known as the niqab.
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  1. VAAOctober 5, 2009 at 2:44 PM

    I guess those lunatics in Saudi Arabia will be pissed off.

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  2. thankgodimatheistOctober 5, 2009 at 4:40 PM

    A surprise though..From what I could gather interacting with Egyptians online, the Wahhabisation of the Egyptian society was unstoppable..

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  3. thankgodimatheistOctober 5, 2009 at 4:50 PM

    Those little imams polluting the airwaves issuing fatwas by the thousands about how you should urinate or defecate, are going to be furious...A female student asked one of them if it was ok to catch a bus to the University and one "imam" issued that it's forbidden! That's "mixing"..How about a taxi, she asked. Forbidden he blared! That's "Khulwa"(being alone with a man)..It's a real story...

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  4. thankgodimatheistOctober 5, 2009 at 4:53 PM

    What I could gather as well is that MANY are just angry at this whole bullshit. They're mostly educated and I doubt that Eguptian society will ever settle in a Saudi like model. A storm is brewing..

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  5. thankgodimatheistOctober 5, 2009 at 4:55 PM

    "The niqab question reportedly arose when Sheikh Tantawi was visiting a girls' school in Cairo at the weekend and asked one of the students to remove her niqab.
    The Egyptian newspaper al-Masri al-Yom quoted him expressing surprise at the girl's attire and telling her it was merely a tradition, with no connection to religion or the Koran."

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  6. thankgodimatheistOctober 5, 2009 at 5:39 PM

    More details here: This "honorable person" is quite the prick if you ask me! The way he talks to this child is ungentlemanly to say the least!!

    كتب أحمد البحيرى ٥/ ١٠/ ٢٠٠٩

    أجبر الدكتور محمد سيد طنطاوى، شيخ الأزهر، إحدى الطالبات المنتقبات على خلع نقابها، أثناء جولته التفقدية لمعاهد الأزهر للوقوف على مدى استعدادها لمواجهة انتشار فيروس «H١N١» المعروف باسم «أنفلونزا الخنازير»، معلناً عزمه إصدار قرار رسمى بمنع دخول المنتقبات معاهد الأزهر.

    فوجئ طنطاوى أثناء جولته التفقدية فى معهد فتيات أحمد الليبى بمدينة نصر، أمس الأول، بإحدى الطالبات فى الصف الثانى الإعدادى ترتدى النقاب داخل الفصل، فانفعل بشدة وطالبها بضرورة خلع نقابها قائلاً: «النقاب مجرد عادة لا علاقة له بالدين الإسلامى من قريب أو بعيد، وبعدين إنت قاعدة مع زميلاتك البنات فى الفصل لابسة النقاب ليه؟».

    ولم تجد الطالبة أمامها وسيلة أخرى فى مواجهة إصرار شيخ الأزهر على خلع النقاب سوى تنفيذ الأمر بخلعه وكشف وجهها، فرد طنطاوى قائلاً: «لما إنت كده أمال لو كنت جميلة شوية كنت عملتى إيه؟».

    وردت إحدى المدرسات بالمعهد قائلة: «إن الطالبة تقوم بخلع نقابها داخل المعهد لأن كل المتواجدات فيه فتيات، ولم تقم بارتدائه إلا حينما وجدت فضيلتك والوفد المرافق تدخلون الفصل».

    وطلب شيخ الأزهر من الطالبة عدم ارتداء النقاب مرة أخرى طوال حياتها، فقالت إنها تقوم بارتدائه حتى لا يراها أحد، فرد طنطاوى منفعلاً: «قلت لك إن النقاب لا علاقة له بالإسلام وهو مجرد عادة، وأنا أفهم فى الدين أكتر منك ومن اللى خلفوكى».

    وأعلن طنطاوى على الفور عزمه إصدار قرار رسمى بمنع ارتداء النقاب داخل المعاهد الأزهرية، ومنع دخول أى طالبة أو مدرسة المعهد مرتدية «النقاب».

    وشملت جولة طنطاوى التفقدية أيضاً مجمع معاهد مدينة نصر، وفتيات المنطقة السادسة. وشدد خلال جولته على ضرورة لصق الإرشادات الخاصة بمواجهة فيروس «أنفلونزا الخنازير» فى الأماكن الظاهرة بالمعاهد الأزهرية، والاهتمام بغرف الرعاية الصحية والنظافة الدائمة فى الفصول الدراسية ودورات المياه وتطهيرها بصفة مستمرة

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  7. thankgodimatheistOctober 5, 2009 at 5:40 PM

    If true of course!!

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  8. vOctober 6, 2009 at 3:51 AM

    What do you attribute this trend to?

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  9. VAAOctober 6, 2009 at 6:08 AM

    I have a lot to say about this v.
    But i'll sum it up so not to bore you. First we in the Arab world had the brutal Ottomans to deal with, than they were followed by the lovely British and the french to become subjects of HM. followed by the Zionists and Americans . all the while time is standing still for us. inch by inch Arabs embracing religion  as a relief valve , misguided by the so called moderate leaders's instruments of  oppressions .
    This is what a non stop colonialism and a rope of lies as long as the wall of china does.

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  10. VAAOctober 6, 2009 at 6:21 AM

    TGIA
    As discussing as this Arse whole is , he did say something of truth. that is the attire is a tradition and has nothing to do with religion or the Quran , not that it matters anyway. As for the rest and his rudeness ..well this is what someone alleges the Sheik said. 

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  11. VAAOctober 6, 2009 at 4:19 PM

    <span style="">discussing=Disgusting above</span>

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  12. thankgodimatheistOctober 6, 2009 at 5:12 PM

    Latest development ladies and gentlemen:

    A TV program invited the journalist and confronted him in regards to the reported and offensive sentences that the sheikh uttered towards the child and as it seems the guy is PRO NIQAB and made the words up in an effort to discredit the sheikh's reputation..
    It's a wild world out there!!

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  13. thankgodimatheistOctober 6, 2009 at 5:12 PM

    Well as it seems today,  it's not true.

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  14. ananOctober 6, 2009 at 7:07 PM

    Arabs have been independent since the late 1940s. The biggest challenge for Arabs is their horrendous dictators.

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