Re: MEN and not GODs invent hatred for women


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Turkey orders scholars to purge key Islamic text of 'misogyny'
AFP

June 21, 2006

On my birthday, yet. How auspicious!

ANKARA -- Turkish theologians are studying the hadith, a collection of
sayings by the Prophet Mohammed, to weed out passages seen as
advocating violence or hatred against women, a senior official said on
Tuesday.

Mehmet Gormez, deputy head of the religious affairs directorate, said
that many words attributed to the Prophet, including those
discriminating against women, had been fabricated over the centuries.

Well, duh. They could so they did, much like clergies of other religions
elsewhere in the world have done. And are still doing.

"No saying that humiliates women, that recommends or justifies the use
of violence against women can be attributed to the Prophet of Islam,
not even by allusion," Gormez said in an interview with NTV television.

Good!

"That women are defective by birth, that they are intellectually or
religiously incomplete and evil - such hearsay has nothing to do with
the Koran or Islam."

Perhaps Christians will be getting rid of their "original sin" idea too?
One can only hope.

The directorate of religious affairs has tasked 35 experts with
preparing a new standard version of the hadith - a collection of the
sayings and traditions of Mohammed and his companions.

The work, which will be seen as a benchmark of religious scholarship in
Turkey, will be published in five volumes by the end of 2007, Gormez
said.

I'll be looking to buy a copy when it becomes available.

Hadith collections vary and the extent to which they are authentic has
always been debated because the stories about what Mohammed said or did
were passed by word of mouth over the centuries.

The religious affairs directorate is a government body that runs
religious affairs in mainly Muslim but strictly secular Turkey. Its
personnel of preachers and other mosque staff have the status of public
servants.

Turkey, a candidate for European Union membership, is under pressure to
ensure gender equality in all fields of life.

Indeed. Smart move on their part.

Turkish women were encouraged to join public life by the founding
father of the republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who granted them
suffrage rights in 1934, years before women in many European countries
were allowed to vote.

Indeed. Movers and shakers in the Middle East. Kudoes to them.

Marg

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