Comments on: Yemeni Bride (12) Dies in Childbirth

By: syeda

syeda — Sun, 09 May 2010 01:44:31 +0000

this is wrong all wrong

By: kinziblogs

kinziblogs — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 06:49:06 +0000

And you are a wonderful, amazing, beautiful Muslim. Tread carefully, but do tread, as others who pound away are not as careful nor represent the beauty. I want the world to see women like you, men like other bloggers, that it is your example that frames and leads the reputation of your faith.

By: Layla

Layla — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:20:32 +0000

Hehe! “Sheikha Layla” does have a certain ring to it…

Otherwise, when dealing with subjects such as these I find myself treading carefully because Islam is a wonderful, amazing and beautiful religion.

Such stories are, as you note, usually hijacked to remonstrate against it, which is terrible – the problem lies not with the text, but with the interpreters.

By: kinziblogs

kinziblogs — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:11:12 +0000

Maybe you should become a sheikha and do some of that fatwa issuing.

“Priorities, people – get them straight. Now.”

I saw this story all over blogs that make a habit of posting anything negative about Muslims. The stories themselves are bad enough, and too numerous, and they are framing understanding of faith. The fact that is no huge outcry like yours emanating from major voices just underlines the problem.

When an honor/shame-propelled culture, that believes in hiding to cover the acts, collides with a guilt/innocence culture that believes in exposing the remove the acts, it is no surprise we are on the course we are.