Jarus:
Quite true.

It appears to me Nigerian Muslims are generally the most conscious of their deen in West Africa. Interestingly, Muslim-other religions ratio in Nigeria is just 50-50 whereas a country like Senegal has close to 80-20 in favour of Muslims.

But I observe, even with their not-so-strong practice in those countries, they hardly convert from Islam, unlike what is common in Nigeria, especially among some Southern Nigeria Muslims. They may not be practising, but they still believe they are Muslims, even if they have lived all their lives in France or even born in France.

You are right in my school I met 3 nigeriens who told me they used to be muslim it's really rare to see that in Guinnee and in Senegal. I think the reason is that in these countries neither religion is preachy. we usually leave each other alone to practice what we choose in peace.

sino: You should try and inspire young muslims who are still finding it difficult to put on the hijab, may Allah assist you.

thank you that's really my mission now especially to the young girl in my family

snubish:

Good for you! mon pied, ton pied. this pleasant piece of news has me smiling with tears in my eyes just now. May Allah Ar-Rauf make it easy for you.

lol how do you remember that but yeah it's nice to see him proud. and thank you.

maclatunji:

Ooookay, nice! Alhamdulillah, indeed it has to be a personal journey of conviction rather than an imposed act of compulsion. We just need to provide information as at when due to those who want/need it.

You are absolutly right providing knowledge is better than telling anyone what to do. In my case I found it easier when I started reading different books on muslim women. They were really helpful and of course the koran.

Thank you guys I appreciate the well wishes.

deols:

I pray Allah makes it easy for you. I find you an inspiration. You are an inspiration

Ameen you are an inspiration too in this forum. you never shy from your deen and I commend you for the time you take to encourage muslims in this forum. like you I pray Allah makes it easy for her too and many other muslim sisters out there.

I am happy to return to this thread and tell my muslim sisters that I finally took the hijab. I feel so liberated that I get mad at myself for delaying it this long. It's been a journey and I am glad to say that I finally reached my destination. I love the inner pose and peace the hijab has given me. I love the fact that I get greeted by a muslim wheneever I pass one because they can tell. I am taken by surprise when strangers I don't know say assallah mallaikum to me on the streets. I love the fact that my husband is happy but most of all I love the fact that I am finally doing what Allah expect from me as a muslim woman. Thank you for your prayers because if you go back to the first few posts on this thread you will see some of you prayed that Allah makes it easy for me to take the hijab He did and Alhamdulillah. MAy Allah make it easy too for our sisters who are finding putting the hijab on hard.

deols:

Thank you dear. Am havn a good time

I am glad you are having fun eid caught me by surprise this year so I wasn't really prepared.

Happy eid my brothers and sisters in Islam May we witness more eids.

deols: D

hello deols it's been a while hope you had a wonderful eid?

Felix_L:

No, I know. I have seen a documentation made in Austria made by an iranian woman. She definitely is complaining. The dress code is for females only.
Islamic women should decide themselves how to dress. At my place if they wear veils they usually chose a good looking one.
And no, I even dont like it when women are exposing their secundary gender attributes in the open to much.

like I said earlier I know very little about Iran. I myself I am not a fan of black robe and hijab but can't i assume that they are oppressed because of it? no. in my country those who have the hijab wear colorful ones too and their hijab does not take away anything from them.

vedaxcool: My take on this; the Iranian govt. Misfired once again, the idea is repulsive and makes the Iranian govt. Look more or less communist in form, the idea that a govt. Can by fiat compel citizens is quite anti - citizen as it it could have made incentive or create awareness about the employment situation surrounding each field of endeavor than compelling females to jump ship as it were, but I think the Nobel lauret is exergerating the matter by making it men vs women, I think it is more of not accommodating the needs of women and doing it in such a way that is very unintelligent in every respect, they could have consider enforcing quotas on comapnies for female employment etc but rather like the article indicated a clerical offensive against women needs in Iran, to crown it on, Ahmedinejad powers is being eroded by the millionaire clerics of Iran who are only interested in power tussles with elected officials! Funny to see lagosshia waiting for the Iranian regime to explain (after the universities have clarified their reasons) but hardly would u see such wait when it comes from undesirable regimes one wonders when people will live straight?

exactly Iran seems more like a comi regime than an Islamic state, I just wish they'll come out and say it instead of dragging Islam name in the mudd same goes for all those fanatics countries and people. they want to increase male in these field let them put affirmative policies that favor them and leave women who choose these field alone.

MacDaddy01:

You are lying. New York does not segregate women and men in buses. Gerrout

Look here Don't you ever address me again as you can see I've never addressed you with all your annoying and silly points you display daily in this forum . So let it be the first and the last time you say I am lying understood? espece de quoi.... I live in nyc and happen to live around hasidic jews who operate their own gender segregated public buses in brooklyn if you don't know ask respectfully and you'll be educated. I am not here to exchange words with people like you so do me a favor and ignore me. thank very much

Felix_L:

Nothing. It shows. Do you think these girls like how they have to dress? They have no choice .

You see what I mean you don't know that. besides this is a school that probably has its own dress code you don't have to like but you must wear if you're going to attend. Something tells me you think any woman who does not wonder around jeans, short skirts, and her hair fully displayed is being controlled right? if that's the case you're wrong, because most women in hijab do it out of faith.

Felix_L:

Am I outside? I lived with an iranian for about 1 year. Once when we had drink he started to grab and bother girls in tramway. When my daughter showed up from N.Y. he welcomed her in undies. When he got visited by iranian girl I was not even allowed to talk with her. My ex has had an iranian bf, so my older daughter has a half-iranian sister. Always trouble about how to bring children up.
Have been invited to iran several times but refused to go there. Dont like to go anywhere where my women ar regarded as an easy to chase free game and I myself have to look for russian whorelets.

Ok, these are personal experiences, perhaps not guilty in general. For me it is enough.

Yes you are an outsider so am I. your examples are personal like you rightly said. Iran to me is just some place that gets mentioned a lot yet I know very little about it and I am probably not curious to know it. Your friend grabbing other females and not allowing you to talk to his iranian gf does not surprise at all most of these cultures have zero respect for women outside of their own circle. the way of solving this is to protect your own too. But you can not say just because you have had these experiences you know for sur what is going on in their society

Felix_L: In iranian busses the women have to use the backseats , the few men are sitting seperated in the front part.
That is not religion but culture. A culture that reaches from christian South-Italy, over Greece, Turkey to Iran and even further.


I cannot accept the way they treat their women over there.

You find this in many cultures that dislike male and female mixing. Even in NYC you see such buses, women @ the back & male in front. It has nothing to do with the way they treat their women. It's funny it's always those outside the line that criticize. Unless someone from these cultures comes out and complain about their situation, the rest of us should just mind our business

LagosShia:


the iranian government should know best what is good for its interests.they most likely want more male presence and participation in certain fields for reasons know to them best.excluding women from fields like oil engineering or nuclear physics should have good enough reasons to them.possibly employers in those field prefer to employ males than females and females end up not channeling their acquired knowledge in those fields.so females can have more roles in medicine,education and other important fields the country as a whole can benefit from.i think i would wait for clarification from the iranian government to be issued to the press before i go on speculating.

however,it is the habit of the western zionist media to make a big issue out of everything the word "Iran" is present in.they are simply detractors/haters of the Islamic Republic.

You Know, you are being biased here. I could see your point if this was some sorts of affirmative actions to increase males presence in these field but it's not. if this ban is true what they are trying to do is to controle women. after all it's not unislamic to study these subjects. I am so tired of people mixing their culture with Islam. If they want to do that they should do so without involving Islam in it please .

deols: Am shouting out to these nairalanders who mean something or more to me . You can make yours too


bahpulo-- with much love

thanks sis Deols though it came late hope you had a Wonderful Ramadan and Eid.

To the rest of my brother & sisters in Islam Eid Mubarack may we live to see many other eids Amin yaah raabi