Samenwerken met moslims: Muslim Reform Movement - Raheel Raza
Raheel Raza- Muslim and Canadian activist, founded the
Muslim Reform Movement
• Peace: We reject interpretations of Islam that call for any violence, social injustice and politicized Islam. We invite our fellow Muslims and neighbors to join us.
• Human Rights: We reject bigotry, oppression and violence against all people based on any prejudice, including ethnicity, gender, language, belief, religion, sexual orientation and gender expression.
• Secular Governance: We are for secular governance, democracy and liberty. Every individual has the right to publicly express criticism of Islam. Ideas do not have rights. Human beings have rights.
• We stand for peace, human rights and secular governance. Please stand with us!
Citaat:
On Islamic extremism
She has unequivocally condemned 9/11, terrorism and all violence in the name of religion, and in the name of Islam in particular.[4][9] She believes radical Muslims have their own interpretation of Islam, and that the Koran does not justify suicide bombings.[13]
She notes that hatred has been preached in places of worship and elsewhere, and urges parents to be on the alert for this so that extremism does not get imported into Canada.[14] Raza identifies herself as a libertarian.[15]
Female-led mixed gender prayers
Raza has been a human rights activist, and has advocated what she believes is gender equality, especially for Muslim women.[9][16] She became the first woman to lead mixed-gender Muslim prayers in Canada, in 2005.[11][17][18][19][20] Raza termed it a "silent revolution" and said she hopes to become an imam someday. She also dreams of having a mosque "for women by women".[17] She received death threats following the 2005 prayer event.[10][21]
Imam Amina Wadud, another Muslim woman, had previously led mixed-gender prayers in New York, which had led to fatwas and death threats against her.[11][22] After Wadud led mixed-gender prayers in Oxford in 2008, Raza was invited by Dr. Taj Hargey to go to Oxford and become the first Muslim-born woman to lead a mixed-gender British congregation in Friday prayers.[1] According to Muslim reformist Tahir Aslam Gora, such prayers did not become regular.[18] The Canadian Islamic Congress said Raza's concerns were a "non-issue for Canadian Muslims".[19]
Opposition to prayers in schools
Raza opposed congregational Muslim Friday prayers in public schools, saying that in 1988 the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that the use of the Lord’s Prayer in public schools was not appropriate. She said such prayers are contrary to the notion of separation of church and state. She called the prayers "discrimination and harassment" for requiring girls to pray at the back of the room and for disclosing their "private personal female condition".[23]
Banning veils
She has argued for a public ban in Canada on religious face coverings.[24]
Opposition to Park51 Muslim community center
See also: Park51
In August 2010 Raza, along with Tarek Fatah, both from the Muslim Canadian Congress, opposed the Muslim community center, Park51, located near the World Trade Center site (or Ground zero). She describes the project as a Fitna, meaning that it was done intentionally to provoke a reaction and make trouble.[25]
On Immigration
Raza has called the Canadian government to suspend all immigration from "terror-producing" countries, like Iran in 2012.[27] Ironically, Raza herself is from the "terror-producing" country of Pakistan.
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Dat is het soort moslims dat we nodig hebben. Duidelijk een zeer progressieve kracht die binnen het geloof blijft en een invloed uitoefent van binnenuit. I wish her well.
Ze was op BBC Hardtalk vandaag. |
