[Reader-list] [#24509902] Re: Everybody loves a bad fatwa

Fri May 21 20:53:32 IST 2010

Hello all and the list administrators. I am curious about these automatic 
emails, such as the following. I received the same email when I replied to a 
ultra right winger fanatic, tea party apologist, unfortunate follower of 
Glen Beck's barking, who was ranting against Muslims and immigrants recently 
on the list.

I wonder if such emails could be stopped.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Javed" <javedmasoo at gmail.com>
To: "TaraPrakash" <taraprakash at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 1:41 PM
Subject: [#24509902] Re: [Reader-list] Everybody loves a bad fatwa

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> Ticket body: Thanks for bringing this to our notice that media suddenly 
> has become such
> as described in this mail. They were always hungry for news and added
> sounbites, as many as possible. I wonder if anyone has sympathy for the
> mortified self of the writer.
>
>
> The author clarifies the language of the fatva, which makes the fatva more
> deplorable.
> "It is
> unlawful for Muslim women to do job in government or private
> institutions where men and women work together and women have to talk
> with [to] men frankly and without veil." Now which law are they talking
> about? Shouldn't they specify? The language suggested to me that law of 
> the
> land prohibits Muslim women from going to the government or private 
> offices
> without veil. Looks like if because of a disability a muslim woman 
> couldn't
> speak (frankly or otherwise) it is lawful to work in those offices as long
> as you covered yourself.
>
> And what happens to the question of salary, which the fatva ignored? You 
> can
> earn salary even without going to the office. There are internet based 
> jobs
> that you can perform from home to remain in the despicable shackles of a
> medieval "law." Does the fatva ignore the question because the answer goes
> without saying? If it is haram she should not be able to keep it and the
> male member of the family is justified to gobble it up. If it is halal, 
> then
> it should be gobbled up by the family. The woman has no individual
> existence.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Javed" <javedmasoo at gmail.com>
> To: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 11:01 AM
> Subject: [Reader-list] Everybody loves a bad fatwa
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>
>> Everybody loves a bad fatwa
>>
>> Within 24 hours of this news being flashed on NDTV this week, all
>> major media of India have reported this over a month old fatwa. And
>> every new report had added information that was not even there, says
>> KASHIF-UL-HUDA. Pix: the Deoband seminary.
>>
>> Posted Thursday, May 13 23:11:03, 2010
>>
>> Everybody loves a bad fatwa. And why not? Newspapers, for it fills the
>> front page for its readers; Television channels, for it brings in the
>> audience; communalists, for it plays into the image of Muslims as
>> backwards; and activists, because it gives them a chance to reinforce
>> their secular credentials. Never mind that this fatwa will not change
>> the lives of millions of Muslims and may be text of the fatwa is not
>> what it has been reported or may be the said fatwa doesn't even exist.
>>
>> A fatwa is nothing but a religious opinion from a religious scholar to
>> a question asked by a Muslim on a particular situation that he or she
>> may be facing or might face in future, and does not know what should
>> be appropriate way to act in light of Islamic teachings. A mufti then
>> issues a fatwa or opinion based on his understanding of the question
>> and Islam. Just as different medical doctors will have difference of
>> opinion regarding diagnosis and a treatment plan, it is common for
>> different muftis to give different opinions on the same question.
>>
>> Media circus
>>
>> At least once every year, on a slow news day, some enterprising
>> journalist finds a fatwa that will fit the stereotype about Muslims
>> being backward or Muslim scholars being ignorant or out of touch with
>> the real world or both, and publish a news story based upon this
>> 'prized' fatwa. Let's take the example of the fatwa issued by Darul
>> Uloom Deoband that is making the round in news cycles this week.
>>
>> The fatwa in question was issued more than a month ago and one can
>> ask, why the sudden interest by media in this particular fatwa? A
>> fatwa that is only a sentence long has had numerous newspaper columns
>> space and hours of airtime devoted to it. The media bosses have
>> decided that it is an important fatwa because it has all the right
>> keywords to keep the readers, audience, and therefore revenue coming
>> in.
>>
>> One has to question the motive of the major media regarding this
>> fatwa. There is more to this than meets the eye when the Indian media
>> which is obsessed with breaking news and exclusives these days picks
>> up a fatwa that was issued more than a month ago. Within 24 hours of
>> this news being flashed on NDTV on Tuesday (May 11th, 2010) this week,
>> all major media of India have reported it. And every new report had
>> added information that was not even there.
>>
>> Let's look at the fatwa first.
>>
>>
>> Question number 21031
>> (http://darulifta-deoband.org/viewfatwa.jsp?ID=21031) to Darul Ifta
>> (house of fatwas) of Darul Uloom Deoband asked by someone in India
>> states: “Asalamu-Alikum: Can muslim women in India do Govt. or Pvt.
>> Jobs? Shall their salary be Halal or Haram or Prohibited?” Answer
>> published on April 4th, 2010 simply answers it as follow: “It is
>> unlawful for Muslim women to do job in government or private
>> institutions where men and women work together and women have to talk
>> with [to] men frankly and without veil.”
>>
>>
>> Headlines
>>
>> Now let's look at some of the headlines of news reports about this fatwa:
>>
>> Fatwa against working Muslim women: NDTV
>>
>> Fatwa to working Muslim women: Don't talk to male colleagues: NDTV
>>
>> Women's earnings haram, says Deoband: Times of India [Print edition]
>>
>> Deoband fatwa: It's illegal for women to work, support family: Times
>> of India [Online]
>>
>> Don't talk to male colleagues: Darul Uloom's fatwa to all working women:
>> DNA
>>
>> Muslim women can't work: Deoband: Samay Live
>>
>> Darul Uloom says Muslim women can't work in public: India Today
>>
>> Now, fatwa against working women: Indian Express
>>
>> Women Working with Men Un-Islamic: Deoband: Outlook
>>
>> Fatwa against men-women proximity at workplace: Zee News
>>
>> In case you ever wondered why there is no successful supermarket
>> tabloid in India, this is your answer. There is no need for one
>> because major media in India does that job very well.
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