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Me and the Mosque (Women in Islam)
Please watch this eye-opening documentary.
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"The mosque was the most important part of my life, and now I didn't feel welcome," she says. "I felt a strong sense of spiritual loneliness."
In her National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentary Me and the Mosque, Nawaz asks why so many Muslim places of worship in 21st century Canada enforce the strict separation of men and women. The search for answers takes her to mosques all over North America, and deep into the history and traditions of Islam.
As Islamic scholars reveal to Nawaz, early Muslim society was egalitarian: both sexes prayed together, and women played prominent roles in the community. However, over the last two centuries in particular, women have been increasingly segregated.
Today, more than 90 percent of Muslims in Canada come from Muslim countries where men and women never pray together, and mosques here naturally cater to these expectations. Of the approximately 140 mosques in this country, an estimated two-thirds require women to pray behind barriers, partitions or curtains. Frustrated by their exclusion, many young women of Nawaz's generation have turned away from organized worship altogether.
In the course of her odyssey, Nawaz speaks to men with traditional views on the separation of the sexes, and women yearning to play an equal part in worship. She meets the architect of a new mosque in Surrey, B.C., interviews an American writer who fought publicly for the right to pray alongside men at her mosque in West Virginia, and hosts an eye-opening panel discussion on this issue at a gathering in Gimli, Man.
As one female activist tells her: "Every woman who has the courage of her convictions has to get up and say no. You can ignore me as long as you want, but here I am to stay."
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Description:
"The mosque was the most important part of my life, and now I didn't feel welcome," she says. "I felt a strong sense of spiritual loneliness."
In her National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentary Me and the Mosque, Nawaz asks why so many Muslim places of worship in 21st century Canada enforce the strict separation of men and women. The search for answers takes her to mosques all over North America, and deep into the history and traditions of Islam.
As Islamic scholars reveal to Nawaz, early Muslim society was egalitarian: both sexes prayed together, and women played prominent roles in the community. However, over the last two centuries in particular, women have been increasingly segregated.
Today, more than 90 percent of Muslims in Canada come from Muslim countries where men and women never pray together, and mosques here naturally cater to these expectations. Of the approximately 140 mosques in this country, an estimated two-thirds require women to pray behind barriers, partitions or curtains. Frustrated by their exclusion, many young women of Nawaz's generation have turned away from organized worship altogether.
In the course of her odyssey, Nawaz speaks to men with traditional views on the separation of the sexes, and women yearning to play an equal part in worship. She meets the architect of a new mosque in Surrey, B.C., interviews an American writer who fought publicly for the right to pray alongside men at her mosque in West Virginia, and hosts an eye-opening panel discussion on this issue at a gathering in Gimli, Man.
As one female activist tells her: "Every woman who has the courage of her convictions has to get up and say no. You can ignore me as long as you want, but here I am to stay."
Muslim women speak & fight against religious establishment!
PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO!
A Muslim Arab woman from Bahrain, appears on Bahraini TV, arguing against the religious establishment that oppresses women. She makes a terrific case and unapologetically challenges the authority of the religious establishment!!!
A Muslim Arab woman from Bahrain, appears on Bahraini TV, arguing against the religious establishment that oppresses women. She makes a terrific case and unapologetically challenges the authority of the religious establishment!!!