A Muslim cleric has been arrested on charges of blasphemy and hate speech in Indonesia after his decision to allow women to preach and pray beside men sparked a backlash in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation.
That cleric seems like a pretty cool Muslim dude. I hope the damn Islamists won´t murder the poor guy.
I will take blasphemy, it’s terrible but at least I can see it…
…allowing women to preach is hate speech though? Not the other way around??
‘Hate speech’ is entirely defined by the government’s opinion on issues.
Muhammad forbid that women gain equal standing with men in the Muslim world…Christ forbid that women gain equal standing in the Christian world…Yeshua forbid that women gain equal standing in the Jewish world…
I’m sensing a pattern here…
My knowledge on the bible is not too detailed, but could I ask, where Christ forbade the equal standing of women? If I remember right he said to the women they are not less than men, and even let them travel with him. I could be wrong tho.
That was less Jesus, and more Paul. Parl had some serious issues with women that he baked into Christianity. Jesus seemed pretty cool with women.
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Ah yes, the famous, not here to preach the love and care for each other god taught us but the rules of humans
Islam is evil.
This is a comment about the philosophy. This is not about the human followers, hence neither hate speech nor bigotry.
Curious whether this survives.
Almost all religion is evil. Some are worse than others.
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Indonesia committed one of the largest ever genocides of communists in 1965. It is a fucked up country.
Seems many people are misunderstanding the issue and bashing the religion. Islam allows women to be imams (leaders of congregations and prayers) but like conservative Judaism they can only lead groups of women in prayer. Mixed prayers of men and women are led by men.
Yeah okay, I read that as segregation based on gender.
FYI women are the ones asking for a woman-only imam.
Seems strange (understatement) to block them entirely from leading mixed gender groups. Why not give them the option to lead mixed groups if they want, or if they want a women-only group they can lead that as well?
To be clear, i’m against the sexism in the bible and any other religion as well
You may want to ask the islam sublemmy for a longer explanation, but the idea is that people should focus on their prayer and not get distracted staring at the opposite gender. That’s why Muslim men and women form two groups when they pray; women don’t want men ogling as they bend over etc. You see the same in conservative and orthodox synagogues; men and women sit on different sides. It’s a practical consideration.
Where do I find the religious side of lemmy? I always find people talking about religious culture super interesting, even though I’m far from religious.
A lot of subreddits are still copying over to Lemmy although they’re not as big as the originals yet. For example /r/islam has 100k members but [email protected] is very small so far.
But men can lead mixed sessions?
Someone has to be responsible, but he is standing in front leading the prayer with his back to the congregation.
And a woman couldn’t stand in front and face away?
If you can’t handle being around the opposite gender, that’s a you problem.
Nobody is claiming that but thanks for the strawman.
That is deceptive because the origin of the ruling is written by male jurists (living with the ideas of gender from their time, a millenia ago).
It is opposed even when muslim men and women choose to have women lead, so the choice only matters when it conforms to the already held view.
