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Women's rights mostly ignored
in Muslim nations, speaker says
By B.J. Thomsen
Of th* fjwriM
Women are oppressed in
Muslim countries not by Islamic
l.aw but by their own will
ingness to have the law inter
preted for them, said Aminah
Assilmi, an American Muslim
known internationally as a key
lecturer on Islam and how it
relates to women's issues.
There is no such thing as a
true Muslim nation in the world
at this time, Assilmi said,
because the rights given to
women by the Koran, the sacred
book of the Muslims and the
equivalent of the Bible, have
been lost.
Assilmi. until recently a
spokesperson for the National
Islamic Center in Washington
DC., spoke Thursday night
before about 100 people in a lec
ture sponsored in part by the
Muslim Students Association.
She believes that not enough
Muslims take time to study the
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discover how many rights it
bestowed on women when the
book was written more than
1400 years ago.
When she began to study the
Koran in 1976 while attending
Metropolitan College in Denver,
she was impressed with its
guidelines on human rights and
relations. She said the Koran
gives "women rights they still
have not attained in much of the
world, such as equal pay for
equal work."
Assilmi. who now wears the
traditional long, flowing black
and white "Hijab" reminiscent
of a nun's habit, was born in
Oklahoma as a Southern Bap
tist. and turned to Islam 10
years ago when she set out to
convert some Arab students she
had in a class in college.
She began to study the Koran
and “came to realize that it
could not have come from the
mind of any man but only from
God.”
The women's movement has
done a lot to help women
escape from second-class
citizenship, she said, but they
still have a long way to go.
“The income of a working
woman relative to a man has
hardly changed in 50 years."
Assilmi said. In 1939, a woman
earned 63 cents to a man's
dollar for the same job done. In
1985, that has improved to 64
cents to the man's dollar for the
same job done, she said.
“Islam docs not tolerate pre
judice or discrimination under
any grounds whether it be race,
religion, color or creed or sex,”
Assilmi said
More than 1400 years ago, the
Koran outlined laws guarantee
ing certain rights for women in
cluding the right to pursue
education and knowledge, the
right to freedom of expression,
the right to own property, the
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right to make contracts and con
duct business, and the right to
equal pay for equal work,
"something we're still struggl
ing for," she said.
The Koran also guarantees
women the right to choose their
own husbands and to divorce
them, and protection for the
woman and her children during
and after the divorce.
The Equal Rights Ammend
ment has freed some women,
she said, but has marked others,
many of them Muslim, who
choose to remain in the role of
mother and housewife.
Assilmi defends these
women, saying that child
rearing is the most important
job in the world. When mothers
stay home with their children
they are "shaping the future of
the world." she said.
The equal rights movement
has not gone far enough, she
said, and in some areas it has
gone too far. The women s
liberation movement needs a
guidebook, and "that book
should and can still be the
Koran," she said.
The most important thing that
women must recognize is that
"men and women are created as
equal partners to each other. If
you're going to have men and
women fighting each other,
there's no hope for the earth but
destruction," Assilmi said.
“We were not created to be
adversaries."
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