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Politics : The Truth About Islam -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (1231)	9/20/2006 12:15:05 PM
From: Oral Roberts	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20106

Boy truer words were never spoken. I looked at her for a long time before I saw any crescent. Hell I looked at her a long time before I could have told you what color her hair was:)

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (1231)	9/20/2006 2:23:51 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

Does anyone think, even for a second, that she would hold this position if she was in the ME? Putting a Different Face on Islam in America (woman president Islamic Society of North America) NY Times ^ \| September 20, 2006 \| NEIL MacFARQUHAR nytimes.com In an Islamic history class, a saying ascribed to the Prophet Muhammad that translate, “Whenever God wants the destruction of a people, he makes a woman their leader.” The professor, Ingrid Mattson, suggested that the phrase be analyzed in its historical context when Islamic societies consisted largely of tribal raiding parties. A male Saudi student contended that all such sayings were sacred and not to be challenged, the argument growing so heated that he stormed out of the classroom. Professor Mattson stood her ground, as was her style. Now she is challenging convention again. This month, Professor Mattson, a 43-year-old convert, was elected president of the Islamic Society of North America, the largest umbrella organization for Muslim groups in the US and Canada, making her a prominent voice for a faith ever more under assault by critics who paint it as the main font of terrorism. She is both the first woman and, as a Canadian, the first nonimmigrant to hold the post. To her supporters, Professor Mattson’s selection comes as a significant breakthrough, a chance for North American Muslims to show that they are a diverse, enlightened community with roots here — and not alien, sexist extremists bent on the destruction of Western civilization. Some naysayers grumble that women should not head any Muslim organization because the faith bars women from leading men in congregational prayers, but they are a distinct minority. “The more Americans see Muslims who speak English with a North American accent, Muslims who were born and raised here, who understand this culture, the more it will cease to be a foreign phenomenon but something local and indigenous,” - Mahan Mirza, Yale doctoral candidate in Islamic studies recalling the classroom scene from the master’s program at the Hartford Seminary in Connecticut. (Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ....