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In addition tin' group's bylaws
were found' to lie unionstitu
(tonal Ik-i ause nnh ;>•■<ipt* who
adhered to the Sunni brain h of
Islam wru- given full inemliei
ship
The students who led that
group most of w hom are Saudi
Arabian have i limcu in lake
their otg.inu' it mu oil campus
rathei thancuinplv with A SI ()
lestrii lions The students w ho
filed the complaint have estab
Usher! their own group
I id.i Mohammad one of .The
students W llO fill'll the I,Illl
plaint, was elei ted as director
in ASl () superv ised elections
field last month
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Hie focus of the new group in
to m< hull' Muslims ot .ill set ts
promote • -qua! p.irtir ipatmn l>\
women and ret oglin'e diversity
w ith111 the Muslim < ommunitv
-..lid Mohammad a graduate
student from Pakistan
'.We’re trying to make it
even, we re Irving to make ey
ery Muslim vim e heard on
a ampus We n- Irving to give
them an even, fair sav in the ai
11<ms ot the MSA said Han.in
Ham.dll n-1 entlv elet teii to the
group 1-vei utive S nmmitlee
itut problems remain Iwo
Saudi students hired attorney
(diaries Porter to retain the
names Muslim Student Assm i
at ion i it Kugene and Muslim
Student A ssni i,it ion of the
I ’niveisitv of Oregon Members
ol the Islamii Si a iety i ii lui
gene i loselv affiliated vv itfi
MSA registered the names sev
eral years ago with the Oregon
( corporation Div isum
Mohammad maintains how
ev el that the new I v elei led
leadership lias taken ovet the
organization and now has ai
(ess to the names lie ai ( uses
Porter ol harassment ami intim
idation Porter says that's not
the rase, lie s just doing his
job
l he tug-of war is resulting in
legal action, with Porter plan
ning a lawsuit against Moham
mad and several other students
and possibly against the AS! ()
tor i ontiiiiiing to use a name
that tie says belongs to his ill
ents
However the name game
turns out Mohammad and
about dr) other students are in
I lie pi ol ess ot or g.llll/llig a
group that w ill be unite differ
ent from the MSA tli.it pre\ 1
ouslv 01 i upied an offit i in the
I Ml '
\s ,t female Muslim K.uniihi
Stiii! she was nut uHowed In
fully partu ipaie in the previous
giwup hull! (i leadership pusi
tiuu ur public Iv dismiss pulili
(ill .old sin i.d issues In tiddl
lion she was routinely shuttled
utt lu .1 si* par .ill* small morn tor
women when slit- went to pra\
.it tlie LSI ,i popular gathering
place for Muslims in the l u
gene area
Several of the Saudi Muslim
men were appalled th.it I was
elei ted she said
1 he opposition felt like it
lias gotilg overhoard lor a
woman to be on the I \e< uti\ e
i amimittee by election. she
said They were trying to im
pose a \er\ antiquated tried re
y al yy ill in the name of Islam
Hut Rumahi said her elm lion
is point that the Ishimii reli
gion itself does not suppress
u omen
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li people have misused it
then -that s Ihc i asi' mih !• tinu
immeinoriul.' she saiii !
linn I want people In see Islam
as the agency that abuses wom
en Our opposition is of tin
Saudi persuasion uhuli op
presses women and svhii h is
still oppressing women
Kainahi, a student from Pal
estine. wears a head si art and
s.IVS it affei Is the w as people
pen five hei
1 ill looked at as '()h. sin
lias to he oppressed Whs ■' He
lause somewhere in their nil
derstanding of Islam, tiles
heard that Muslim women -ire
oppressed .' she said
I o provide a religious servii e
that welcomes all Muslims
Mohammad. Kamahi and sever
al others has e est.ihl ished .1
sseeklv servue at the Koinoni.i
( enter svhii ll takes plane ey eis
I i idas afternoon
rlie Islamn religion (.(insists
ol tin- major brain lies Sunni
and Slli'a and several sei Is
ssillun those Isvii The major■'te
nets howes er In1111 true toi all
Muslims Allah is worshiped as
the sole deity and Mohammed
is rer ogni/ed as his prophet
II Is .1 religion, Kamahi and
Mohammad said, that is tcin
hlv misunderstood in the West
ern world
People need to knoss that
there is something ssmiig with
the portrayal, not the group."
Kamahi said "lor example,
our image on TV is heinous,
it's ridic ulous II people i ottlin
lie portraying us that way.
they'll start seeing us that was.
and there's nothing sse i ail do
to change that s iesvpoiiil
Mohammad and Kamahi said
they tiase been to several iltlfer
cut i him lies in the luigetie area
and spoken to mans people
about the Islamn religion
We do our best to show that
sse are not different from the
iesi of humanity Mohammed
said
1 nfiiiluiiatels Muslims al
ways have to prove then hu
moults Kamahi said I lies
have to 111* i-I on their humani
ty thes have to articulate it
And I think there s danger m
lies! has mg to vis that W In
■ an I it he understood t hat
we're (list like any olhei human
being
B u I li \1 (i h it in in <i il .111 <1
Kainalii siiul the Western view
ot Islam .mil Muslims is nut
only iii'U i urate but dangerous
\\ hi'ii ilisi ussing Islam, it
gets i imlust'il and i louded u ith
polite s and that's wlirni it be
i times dangerous. Kamahi
said
"It might be an advantage 1,1
portray a curtain people as
bai kward submissive non
denim ratit In that i ase it be
comes the white man's burden
to democratize and enlighten,
and that i an translate into a lot
ol things It opens a gate lot in
trusion
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