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Egypt cleric 'to ban full veils'
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 3:22 pm
by rabanam
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.
Sheikh Mohamed Tantawi, dean of al-Azhar university, called full-face veiling a custom that has nothing to do with the Islamic faith.
Although most Muslim women in Egypt wear the Islamic headscarf, increasing numbers are adopting the niqab as well.
The practice is widely associated with more conservative trends of Islam.
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.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8290606.stm
Re: Egypt cleric 'to ban full veils'
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 3:29 pm
by rabanam
The niqab is popular in Egypt as more Egyptians adopt it. I'm baffled why a secular institution such as Al-Azhar would ban it. It it because Al-Azhar wants to keep Egyptians secular?
Re: Egypt cleric 'to ban full veils'
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 3:32 pm
by Ganjaweed
rabanam wrote:The niqab is popular in Egypt as more Egyptians adopt it. I'm baffled why a secular institution such as Al-Azhar would ban it. It it because Al-Azhar wants to keep Egyptians secular?
Why do you care, are you from egypt? BTW Al azhar clerics can be jokers sometimes
Re: Egypt cleric 'to ban full veils'
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 3:40 pm
by Shirib
Tantawi is turning into a joke, he needs to pass whatever he's smoking
Re: Egypt cleric 'to ban full veils'
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 3:43 pm
by rabanam
Ganjaweed wrote:Why do you care, are you from egypt? BTW Al azhar clerics can be jokers sometimes
I don't have to be from Egypt to care about banning the niqab. Muslims everywhere are concerned about it. Banning the niqab isn't a nationalism issue; it's an Islamic issue that concerns every Muslim.
Re: Egypt cleric 'to ban full veils'
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 3:45 pm
by moany lisa
Somali's in Egypt and the ME only wear that damn thing to protect their complexions
Re: Egypt cleric 'to ban full veils'
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 4:00 pm
by rabanam
moany lisa wrote:Somali's in Egypt and the ME only wear that damn thing to protect their complexions
Are you really what you said in this topic?
http://somalinet.com/forums/./viewtopic ... start=1275
Re: Egypt cleric 'to ban full veils'
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 4:05 pm
by moany lisa
Re: Egypt cleric 'to ban full veils'
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 4:12 pm
by rabanam
In a related article:
EGYPT: Niqab ban adds to Azhar cleric’s woes
The decision to prohibit the face veil, or niqab, among female students attending Al Azhar’s universities and schools is proving yet another reason for many Egyptians to call for the firing of Al Azhar’s grand sheik, Mohamed Sayed Tantawi.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylon ... -woes.html
I agree with the many Egyptians who have called for the firing of Sheikh Tantawi.
