Woman leads US Muslims to prayer

[Michael]

A little while back we used to have this guy called Vienna on here and he was always so paranoid that England was somehow being taken over by Islam(or some such stuff). Anyway, back then I said it will be the Muslims that change their culture – it will certainly not be the English changing to Islamic! In a 1000 years from now, there probably won’t even be an Islam [at least as we would recognize it today (nor a Xianity for that matter)]

That’s assuming there are any significant numbers of religionists around in a 1000 years time to begin with, I for one highly doubt it..

Here’s a first and a also nice start: Woman leads US Muslims to prayer

A professor in the US is thought to have become one of the first Muslim women to lead mixed Friday prayers.

"The issue of gender equality is a very important one in Islam, and Muslims have unfortunately used highly restrictive interpretations of history to move backward," Ms Wadud said before the service started.

I say: Let the interpreting begin!!!

 

[Michael]

Female imams

Spreading the faith is a duty for Muslims, but for the 20 million Muslims in China, it is only allowed within the confines of a mosque.

But Muslims in the province are pushing forward the barriers of faith - with unique results.

Jin Meihua is at the forefront of those changes. Her head covered with a lilac scarf, she teaches passages from the Koran to other women.

The 40-year-old wife and mother is one of a handful of Chinese female imams.

Firstly it is interesting to note that Islam has been in China for how many millennia? And only 20 million adherents on the far Western fringe? Huh? I wonder why so few?

Regardless, this is again, another excellent example of what I am getting at.

Which is going to change: the Chinese with their 9000 year old history and culture or the relatively new religion Islam with it’s inherently Arabic culture? Obviously Islam, as is evident in the BBC piece I quoted from.

Just imagine what the next 1000 years have in store!