OFFICIAL guidelines that women should have more influence in running mosques have been criticised by a Lancashire mosque leader.
The Mosque and Imams Advisory Board, MINAB, wants to reform and regulate Islamic places of worship and has also asked for sermons to be held in English.
Salim Mulla, the chair of the Lancashire Council of Mosques, said the advice was ‘unhelpful, impractical and an interference’.
.... Coun Mulla said of more than 100 mosques LCM represents there was not a single woman on management committees — and that was ‘unlikely to change’.
And he said calls to complete prayers in English would not be adhered to. [The Lancashire Telegraph] Read more [via The Iconoclast]
