Assalam aleikum !!.!
She used to be a Southern Baptist,
a radical feminist and a broadcast
journalist. Now Aminah Assilmi is
an ambassador of Islam.
The director of the International
Union of Muslim Women, Assilmi
calls Fairfield, Ohio, home. She
travels the country speaking on
college campuses, increasing
public awareness and
understanding of the faith.
She wears the traditional Islamic
hijab, which includes a head scarf,
covering her hair and neck and
modest clothing with long sleeves.
Last week at the University of
Tennessee, Assilmi spoke to a
near-full audience on the status of
women in Islam in her lecture, "A
Muslim woman speaks from
behind the veil."
Assilmi cautions critics who say
that women are oppressed in
some predominately Muslim
countries. She says their practices
are cultural, not Islamic.
"People who are held down, are
held down by ignorance," she
said."They follow cultural practices.
Do not judge Islam by these
individuals who have only
practiced like the people in their
family."
But, Assilmi told audiences, she
hasn't always been a Muslim and a
proponent of Islam.
Meeting her first "real life Muslims"
when she took a college theater
class some years ago, Assilmi said
she almost dropped the class
when she walked into the room
and saw some Arab students in
traditional hijab.
In the handbook she authored,
"Choosing Islam," Assilmi writes,
"There was no way I was going to
sit in a room with dirty heathens. ..
I shut thedoor and went home."
After her husband encouraged her
to go back to the theater class,
Assilmi said she felt it her duty to
"convert the poor, ignorant
Muslims."
Hoping to convert the students to
Christianity, Assilmi began to study
the Koran, the holy book of Islam,
in a quest to prove that
Mohammed was a false prophet
and that Islam was not a valid
religion.
But the more she read, the more
she became interested in Islam.
She was particularly interested in
what the Koran had to say about
men andwomen.
Islamic women, she thought,
"were freely beaten by their
husbands andtossed aside."
Assilmi says she had based her
opinion on stereotypes; and soon
found out those ideas were not in
keeping with the Koran.
Through intense study, she said
she learned that Islamic women
are equal to men and are paid
according to the job they do
regardless of their gender. Both
men and women have equal rights
to education. Islamic women have
had the right to own property for
more than 1,400 years. And when
a woman marries, she does not
change her last name, but keeps
her father's last name.
Thus, Assilmi told her college
audience, "We remain our own
distinct individual."
"For two years I studied in order to
convert Muslims to Christianity,"
shesaid.
But during that time Assilmi said
she started to change. Her
husband began to notice that she
no longer had an interest in going
to bars or parties. She was content
to stay home and study the Koran.
"I was quiet and more distant,"
Assilmi writes in her handbook.
Her husband attributed the
changes in her to another man
and the couple separated.
After she moved out with their
three children, Assilmi was visited
by a Muslim holy leader who
answered her questions about the
faith. He asked her if she believed
in only one God and Assilmi said
yes. He asked her if she believed
Mohammed was His messenger.
Again she said yes.
"He told me I was already a Muslim.
I argued that I was a Christian, I
wasjust trying to understand
Islam. I couldn't be a Muslim! I was
an American and white!
"We continued talking. Later he
explained that attaining
knowledge and understanding of
spirituality was a little like climbing
a ladder."
The first rung on the ladder was
the Shahadah, a statement of belief
that there is no God but the one
God and Mohammed was his
messenger. The Shahadah, done
before witnesses, is in the Islamic
faith,the Christian equivalent of a
statement of belief in Jesus Christ
as Lord and Savior.
For Assilmi, taking Shahadah in
1977 was the first step toward a a
deeper understanding of Islam.
But she still had a few hang-ups --
like hijab. Hijab is the modest dress
worn by both Muslim men and
women; however its most
recognizable feature is the head
scarf worn by women.
"I agreed with modesty, but I was
vain about my hair," Assilmi
said."The Koran tells us to cover
ourselves to be identified as
Muslims. I am a Muslim and I know
what my God-given rights are.
Hijab is not a requirement or
restriction, but a right and a
privilege. I would fight to the death
to wear it."
"I gave up being a women's
liberationist -- it wasn't fulfilling -- I
becamea Muslim ... Liberation, yeah,
that's Islam," said Assilmi who
adopted her name during the
Iranian hostage crisis in 1980.
She adopted the new name "to
protect my family from ignorance."
She no longer uses her given
name.
Assilmi said Islamic women are not
limited in professional fields by
theirreligion. However, "The most
powerful profession is being a
mother. Because we form the mind
of the next generation."
Muslim women, she said, are often
discriminated against because of
thehijab.
"In this country it's extremely
difficult for Muslim women."
That is why some Muslim women
wear varying degrees of hijab. For
example, some women might wear
loose-fitting modest clothing,
others may wear the head scarf,
covering the hair and neck, and
still others may have the courage
to wear the face veil where only
the eyes are visible.
An award-winning broadcaster in
the Denver market, Assilmi lost her
job when she began wearing
Islamic dress.
She says the persecution is intense.
"I've been forced off the road
before -- beaten up -- and I've
never lifted a hand against
anyone," Assilmi said.
She even tried to wear the face veil,
but said, "I could not handle the
experience."
The defining moment came when
she tried to cash a check at her
bank wearing the face veil. A bank
security guard drew his gun
preparing to shoot if she made any
questionable moves.
For Assilmi, her job as a
broadcaster was not the only thing
she lost when she first chose
Islam.
Her marriage over, she also lost
custody of her children because
the court decided that the
"unorthodox religion" would be
detrimental to them.
But since then, Assilmi says her
children have converted to Islam
and so have her parents and her
ex-husband.
"Relatives of mine are still
becoming Muslim right and left,"
she said.
Now at "well over half a century"
and having survived bone cancer,
Assilmi has made two pilgrimages
to Mecca, a holy trip that Muslims
areinstructed to take in their
lifetime. The cancer weakened her
bones and now she uses a
wheelchair as a "mobility
enhancement."
"God decided that I would
continue to live," she said.
And, "I ceased to be afraid of
anything. It became very important
that I would speak the truth
everywhere. I would have to
answer to God for everything I do
and say.
"I love sharing Islam."

"The best is hit with a stick" open research imam of the mosque in Terrassa by giving advice on how to hit women "deviant" reopen the debate on the limits of radical Islam
http://www.larazon.es/noticia/9051-lo-mejor-es-golpear-con-un-baston





10 March 12 - Barcelona - Maria Molins Warn those who fear to rebel, abandonadlas in bed, beat them! ". Thus read some passages from the Koran that led to the imam of the mosque in Terrassa (Barcelona), Abdeslam Laarusi, to be now in the sights of Spanish society.

His speeches, which may have urged the faithful to be corrected with physical violence and psychological behavior "deviant" women, have led to the prosecution and the Catalan police to open an investigation and accuse him of inciting male violence.

For more than two months Catalan regional police has infiltrated the mosque of Doctor Pearson Street in the city to record, translate and analyze some of the speeches that the Imam recites the Friday before Abdeslam over 1,500 worshipers. According to research, the religious leader put concrete examples of how to hit a woman.

"It's not breaking their bones and make them bleed, it's best to hit them with a stick, with fists or hands in different parts of the body" might advise and isolate in their home and refuse sex.

Ptolomeus: "The best is hit with a stick" open research imam of the mosque in Terrassa by giving advice on how to hit women "deviant" reopen the debate on the limits of radical Islam
http://www.larazon.es/noticia/9051-lo-mejor-es-golpear-con-un-baston





10 March 12 - Barcelona - Maria Molins Warn those who fear to rebel, abandonadlas in bed, beat them! ". Thus read some passages from the Koran that led to the imam of the mosque in Terrassa (Barcelona), Abdeslam Laarusi, to be now in the sights of Spanish society.

His speeches, which may have urged the faithful to be corrected with physical violence and psychological behavior "deviant" women, have led to the prosecution and the Catalan police to open an investigation and accuse him of inciting male violence.

For more than two months Catalan regional police has infiltrated the mosque of Doctor Pearson Street in the city to record, translate and analyze some of the speeches that the Imam recites the Friday before Abdeslam over 1,500 worshipers. According to research, the religious leader put concrete examples of how to hit a woman.

"It's not breaking their bones and make them bleed, it's best to hit them with a stick, with fists or hands in different parts of the body" might advise and isolate in their home and refuse sex.

Haha...these two Abrahamic Religions no go kill me with their rubbish

@OP Can you quote your source for your fairytale conversion

http://es.knowquran.org/coran/mujeres/
2:223 Your wives are a tilth for you. Come, then, to your field as you like, by quoting something for yourself! Fear Allah and know that you will find! And glad tidings to believers!
2:228 Divorced women shall wait three menstruations. Not afford to hide what Allah Hath created in their wombs if they believe in Allah and the Last Day During this wait, their husbands are fully entitled to take them back if they wish for reconciliation. They have rights equivalent to their obligations, according to usage, but men are a degree above them. Allah is Mighty, Wise.
4:34 Men have authority over women because of the preference that Allah has given some more than others and property spending. Therefore the righteous women are devoutly obedient and guard in absence of their husbands, what Allah has guarded. Warn those from whom you fear disobedience, leave them alone in bed, beat them! If they obey you, do not ye may thrust more with them. Allah is high, great.
4:15 Calls of you four witnesses against those of your women who commit dishonesty. If they testify, confine them at home until they die or until Allah will seek a way out.
33:30 of the Prophet! To which of you is guilty of lewdness, the punishment will be doubled. It is easy for Allah
65:1 Prophet! When you divorce women, do it at the end of your waiting period! Count well the periods: and fear Allah your Lord! Not out of their houses nor let them go forth unless they are guilty of lewdness Those are the laws of Allah, and who violates the laws of Allah is unjust to himself. You do not know ... Maybe Allah will bring about thereafter some new situation ...
66:10 Allah sets forth an example to unbelievers the wife of Noah and Lot's wife. Both were under two of Our righteous servants but betrayed them, but their treachery availed them naught against Allah and said: "Come both in the Fire along with others who enter!"

@Ptolomeus: I just think that you should not have free range in discussing Quran without a muslim correcting you and those who take your position.
[Quote]2:223 Your wives are a tilth for you. Come, then, to your field as you like, by quoting something for yourself! Fear Allah and know that you will find! And glad tidings to believers![/Quote]Compare the above to the below, taking into consideration that children are the seesd of their father, even the Bible says that.
[Quote]Your wives are a place of sowing of seed for you, so come to your place of cultivation however you wish and put forth [righteousness] for yourselves. And fear Allah and know that you will meet Him. And give good tidings to the believers[/Quote]


[Quote]2:228 Divorced women shall wait three menstruations. Not afford to hide what Allah Hath created in their wombs if they believe in Allah and the Last Day During this wait, their husbands are fully entitled to take them back if they wish for reconciliation. They have rights equivalent to their obligations, according to usage, but men are a degree above them. Allah is Mighty, Wise.[/Quote]Most men are physically stronger than their women; Islam recommends that husband should provide and protect their women folks, and wife is from the woman folks.
[Quote]Divorced women remain in waiting for three periods, and it is not lawful for them to conceal what Allah has created in their wombs if they believe in Allah and the Last Day. And their husbands have more right to take them back in this [period] if they want reconciliation. And due to the wives is similar to what is expected of them, according to what is reasonable. But the men have a degree over them [in responsibility and authority]. And Allah is Exalted in Might and Wise.[/Quote]


[Quote]4:34 Men have authority over women because of the preference that Allah has given some more than others and property spending. Therefore the righteous women are devoutly obedient and guard in absence of their husbands, what Allah has guarded. Warn those from whom you fear disobedience, leave them alone in bed, beat them! If they obey you, do not ye may thrust more with them. Allah is high, great.[/Quote]is it the beat them you dislike? I understand it to mean touch/strike her with something as light weight as her night wear or her scarf and not belt or blala/koboko or your fist as I have read from New York Times. Most of them are non muslims; lets talk to Ester Nossbaum.


[Quote]4:15 Calls of you four witnesses against those of your women who commit dishonesty. If they testify, confine them at home until they die or until Allah will seek a way out.[/Quote]Let compare it to the below
[Quote]Those who commit unlawful sexual intercourse of your women - bring against them four [witnesses] from among you. And if they testify, confine the guilty women to houses until death takes them or Allah ordains for them [another] way.[/Quote]Death shall overtake each. And allowing the wife to die naturally if she is not divorced since Allah in His Power and Right and Authority says He ordains another way, is completely better than the husband, sorry boyfriend killing her for mere going to the swimming pool or talking to another man which has happened recently in Lekki or Ikoyi [refer to a thread on NL].


[Quote]33:30 of the Prophet! To which of you is guilty of lewdness, the punishment will be doubled. It is easy for Allah[/Quote]This is senseless, whereas the truth is as follows;
[Quote]O wives of the Prophet, whoever of you should commit a clear immorality - for her the punishment would be doubled two fold, and ever is that, for Allah , easy[/Quote]This warning is similar to what could have happened in the hands of the Jews to Mary, the Mother of Jesus, had she had committed adultery, i know fornication because she would have been stoned to death.


[Quote]65:1 Prophet! When you divorce women, do it at the end of your waiting period! Count well the periods: and fear Allah your Lord! Not out of their houses nor let them go forth unless they are guilty of lewdness Those are the laws of Allah, and who violates the laws of Allah is unjust to himself. You do not know ... Maybe Allah will bring about thereafter some new situation ...[/Quote]Below is what the verse says
[Quote]O Prophet, when you [Muslims] divorce women, divorce them for [the commencement of] their waiting period and keep count of the waiting period, and fear Allah , your Lord. Do not turn them out of their [husbands'] houses, nor should they [themselves] leave [during that period] unless they are committing a clear immorality. And those are the limits [set by] Allah . And whoever transgresses the limits of Allah has certainly wronged himself. You know not; perhaps Allah will bring about after that a [different] matter[/Quote]Allah has judged correctly, protecting the rights of both husband and wife and restricts the husband from any harshness. Give me something better from the Bible under the same circumstances.


[Quote]66:10 Allah sets forth an example to unbelievers the wife of Noah and Lot's wife. Both were under two of Our righteous servants but betrayed them, but their treachery availed them naught against Allah and said: "Come both in the Fire along with others who enter!"[/Quote]I hope that you will hope that satan, pharaoh who perished in the sea in exodus, hitler and others will enter hell? each of these people was a male. Maybe other males, too? Have you considered that, ptolomeus and his bosses for spain?

She is probably after the 72 virgins!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXAyoD1Xjo4

@Sweetnecta:

Just say you if the item I presented on Abdeslam Laarusi is false or true.
In his sermon, he advises women to hit yes or no?