Re: slavery, polygamy

itrath <[email protected]> Fri, 12 Mar 2004 08:03:29 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.culture.religion.muslim.progressive
Message-ID <BC771F50.28D6E%[email protected]>
salaam,

the jamat i islami, is actually founded in south asia where it continues to
thrive.  and wahabism is not more popular in any section of the world than
it is where it began, saudi arabia.

masalaama,

itrath

on 3/11/04 7:50 PM, Afdhere Jama at [email protected] wrote:

> 
> salam, sofia, aisha and others,
> 
> sofia, ditto. i'm from somalia where men sometimes marry up to four wives and
> certianly do not treat them equally. my own father was once married to two
> women and he certainly did not treat them equal. although he treated my mother
> better, i remember him spending much more time with us than he did with her.
> granted she had no children but he would spend months away from her (we lived
> separate cities.) i found that marriage to be quite abusive (by him.)
> 
> aisha, it is not just u.s. but throughout the world. masjids are hijacked by
> the wahabbis. but it is not just wahabbism but other political islam as
> aqwan-el-muslimiin (the muslim brotherhood,) gama'at-el-islamiyah (the islamic
> union,) al-islaah, etc. these are all popular groups founded by arabs. and it
> is funny how they are mostly popular in non-arab lands. for example, wahhabism
> is not as popular in the arab world as it is outside. interesting, no?
> 
> 
> afdhere 
>