12 May 2010

Muslim clerics in India issue a fatwa forbidding women to work for their living

A NUTTY Muslim organisation in India – Darul Uloom Deoband – has issued a fatwa forbidding female members the Religion of Peace to work for a living. The fatwa, issued this week by a trio of Sunni clerics, declared:

It is unlawful [under the sharia law] for Muslim women to work in the government or private sector where men and women work together and women have to talk with men frankly and without a veil.

According to this report, even the most conservative Islamic countries, which restrict activities of women, including preventing them from driving, do not bar women from working. [The Freethinker] Read more