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    Posted: 05 June 2005 at 10:36am
The Progress of Women
 

The Western media, together with the secularist minded citizens of our country tried to introduce MMA as an opposition force against women, however the positive path of wisdom adopted by the government on the policy of women�s progress and education forced this opposition to stop. This also proves that we cannot find a comparison of the respect and position given to women by Islam anywhere else.

The rights and the respect given by Islam to women are not hidden from any person of knowledge. The government of MMA believes that progress without the involvement of women is impossible. However, the foundation of this progress lies in making education common for everyone. By providing education to one female child you are actually educating a whole family. There is a very close relationship between education, values and traditions. This is why a majority of our women remain deprived of higher education at the university level because of the existing co-education system. Keeping this fact in view the government has decided to give more and more attention to women, so that they are capable of contributing towards the success of our province in a better way.

  • Keeping in view our particular society and traditions, our province cannot tolerate the existing co-educational system in our professional educational institutions. Due to this fact a separate university for women has already been established in Peshawar. All people working in this institute are women, from the vice chancellor to other team members e.g. teachers, helping staff etc. At the moment the university has been established in Government Frontier college, it will however be transferred to its own campus in the near future.

  • On the request of the people of NWFP, particularly women, a separate Medical college has also been established.

  • In order to promote the participation of women in sports a separate sports directorate has also been established.

  • It has also been decided that 25% of the loans given under the scheme of Micro finance by the Bank of Khyber will be set aside for women only.

  • In October 2003 the international Islamic conference for women was held in Peshawar. In this conference various topics were discussed including Islamic values, rights of women, global Islamic issues, family values etc.

  • Centers for sewing and embroidery have been established in several places in the province. Apart from these several Dar-ul-Aman have been established for women in Peshawar, Mardan, Swat, Abbotabad and Dera Ismail Khan. These institutions give protection to unfortunate women.

  • Work has already started on providing women with free education and legal help in various jails of Kohat and Peshawar. Apart from this, work is in progress on the marketing of crafts made by skillful women and on providing them training of the latest techniques.

  • Dar-ul-Aman which is operated under the management of APW, Peshawar, has been given special monetary aid for the renovation of its building.

  • Sewing machines have been distributed among poor widowed women.

  • Dar-ul-Amans have been established in D.I. Khan, Mardan and Swat for oppressed and homeless women.

  • Skillful and talented women have received materials worth over Rs. 100,000 for the making of shirts, shawls, bed sheets etc. Work is also under way for the marketing and distribution of crafts made by these women. The profit made from the sale of these items is equally distributed amongst the women working in government and other such institutions.

 


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http://cyber_bangla0.tripod.com/aa/Chapter_Nine.html

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Does it not stand to reason that, if being a son, a brother, a husband, a father, a male member of the ummah, and a male citizen ought not to restrain, constrain, and/or disqualify a Muslim man from this, that or something else, why should being a daughter, a sister, a wife, a mother, a female member of the ummah, and a female citizen restrain, constrain, and/or disqualify a Muslim woman from this, that or something else?  Is it not strange that, for example, in America, whereas the American society grants the American Muslim woman full and complete and equal freedom, dignity, and opportunity for personal development, growth, advancement, contribution, and achievement, in a word, self-actualization, and/or fulfillment, it is the Muslim community in the United States that denies her those very amenities in life?  I think it is not only strange, but also an outrage.  I am certain that if the larger American society were to treat American Muslim women unequally in those very respects�for instance deny Muslim young women admission to a business school or not give a job to a Muslim woman in the accounting, finance, or insurance fields, because, according to the Sayings of Prophet Muhammad, women cannot master and remember details of complex business and financial transactions, which is why the Shariah, i.e., Islamic law, does not value and accept their testimony, witness, or evidence in these matters and, consequently, accords only half the weight to their testimony, witness, or evidence that it accords to that of a man�we should legitimately consider it discrimination.  The same would be true if the larger American society and its institutions were to segregate Muslim women, which is something Muslim communities and institutions do only too routinely in the United States, not to speak of Muslim countries.  Consider for a moment if the sort of restrictions that are imposed upon Muslim women in countries like Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, etc. were to be imposed upon them in the United States in recognition and respect of the strictures of the Shariah.  Immigrant Muslims in America resent and complain that the American law forbids polygamy and thereby keeps them from practicing polygamy in the United States, an institution which is sanctioned by their religion, but even so they would not stand for the

Islamic-traditional restrictions upon their behavior in other respects, because that will take away all the fun and fortune that living in America makes possible for both our men and women.  What Muslim woman in America wants to be robbed, even in the name of Islam, of the opportunities of acquiring an education and working outside the home, or of the freedom to move about and not to veil her face.



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Excerp from New York Times editorial Thursday 21 July 2005

Quote Most chilling of all are the prospects for Iraqi women. As things now stand, their rights are about to be set back by nearly 50 years because of new family law provisions inserted into a draft of the constitution at the behest of the ruling Shiite religious parties. These would make Koranic law, called Shariah, the supreme authority on marriage, divorce and inheritance issues. Even secular women from Shiite families would be stripped of their right to choose their own husbands, inherit property on the same basis as men and seek court protection if their husbands tire of them and decide to declare them divorced.

Less severe laws would be imposed on Sunni women, but only because the draft constitution also embraces the divisive idea of having separate systems of family law in the same country. That is not only offensive, but also impractical in a country where Sunnis and Shiites have been marrying each other for generations.

Unless these draft provisions are radically revised, crucial personal freedoms that survived Saddam Hussein's tyranny are about to be lost under a democratic government sponsored and protected by the United States. Is this the kind of freedom President Bush claims is on the march in the Middle East? Is this the example America hopes Iraq will set for other states in the region? Is this the result that American soldiers, men and women, are sacrificing their lives for?



 http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/072105F.shtml

Sad, but maybe they must make their own mistakes.

I wonder how 'free' the referendum on the constitution will be ?
I would not surprise me at all if there will be intimidation from religious groups on women for example.
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Jazz I think your views are a little off. In educated familys the girls are very highly educated. My family in Pakistan is Full of engineers, doctors ect. and they are all women. I understand what you are saying about instituting Islamic sharia law. I am totally against this because it is not just based on the Quran but on the Hadiths(which are not protected by Allah) and is open to interpretation by corrupt people who want to set back human rights. Many Muslims do not want Islamic Sharia instituted because the leaders will just use it to abuse the people and Some extreme men will use it to keep womens role in society more culturally traditional. By the way the Quran lets a woman choose her own husband. What people do is different.
You cant be a good muslim if you are not decent and have a cold heart. Be a decent and kind person and care for women and children and the elderly.
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Living in Saudi, I tell you these women are spoiled; who cares about not driving.
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The country of Suadi is going bankrupt to pay for all those drivers. Also I would rather drive myself than have a strange man drive me around!!!
You cant be a good muslim if you are not decent and have a cold heart. Be a decent and kind person and care for women and children and the elderly.
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Originally posted by ummsaleh ummsaleh wrote:

Living in Saudi, I tell you these women are spoiled; who cares about not driving.

I think, culture has a dominant influence on Islam as many now percieve it. In such an environment, not respecting the culture may result in chaos. However, it is equally important to seperate Islam from the cultural influence simply because its Islam that is ubiquitous and not the culture. 
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