Muslims, what is your opinion on this? Do you agree?

Question

Iran: Top cleric says women without veils must die

adnkronos.com December 19, 2007



Tehran, 19 Dec. (AKI) - A top Muslim cleric in Iran, Hojatolislam Gholam Reza Hassani said on Wednesday that women in Iran who do not wear the hijab or Muslim headscarf, should die.

"Women who do not respect the hijab and their husbands deserve to die," said Hassani, who leads Friday prayers in the city of Urumieh, in Iranian Azerbaijan.

"I do not understand how these women who do not respect the hijab, 28 years after the birth of the Islamic Republic, are still alive," he said.

"These women and their husbands and their fathers must die," said Hassani, who is the representative of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in eastern Azerbaijan.

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Religion/?id=1.0.1687095144

Answer 1

They are full of it!!!!!

First I would like to say that I am Muslim and have 2 BA's in psychology and History. I am working on my PhD in history and study at a public university in the United States.

Muslim women have the same rights as Muslim men through the Quran. It is when you start talking about culture women start to lose the rights God gave her.


NO woman can be force to wear anything that she does not want to, including a hijab.

Islam is a religion of peace and it idiots like this that spread the wrong massage.

Answer 2

FROM A MUSLIM:

1. I do not agree with this statement and I see no basis in Islam for it.

2. There is and has been a longstanding debate WITHIN Islam as to whether the hijab is recommended or required.

3. I am not sure why there are always questions about Islam peraining to terrorism and headscarves as if muslims have a monopoly on these things or even invented them but I will take this question in the spirit I think it was written.

It is a shame that there is such a focus on these types of issues by muslims themselves when we have a lot of issues which need far more attention. His priorities are off and his opinion is wrong.

Islamic laws are supposed to ONLY come from God and Prophets not preachers,imams, Ayatollahs, marja-i-taqlids etc.

I hope this answers your question.

PEACE

Answer 3

Is he the same guy who said that you must keep your clothes on when having sex? This guy, and the whole of Iranian religious leaders, are crazy. They should be put away in a mental institution, at the least. This is what is wrong with the Islam religion at the hands of nut cases.

Answer 4

I understand it's an Islamic republic and the people are supposed to abide by the laws of the land but this guy sounds completely psychotic to me. He needs to do some soul searching, get back to reading his Quran and realize that he is not God!

Answer 5

the people that think that women should die if they dont wear a scarf are insane. thats not part of the religion at all

Answer 6

There is no debate in Islam about the requirement for a woman to cover her head. The requirement is stated in the Qur'an 24:31, where women are told to use their khimars to cover their chests. The khimar is the same item of clothing about which women are informed that their prayers will be invalid, according to a statement by Prophet Muhammad. Several other stateents exist by Prophet Muhammad and those who followed him that nothing of a woman's body should show except the circle of her face, or that she should cover all of her body except this and this, while pointing to the face and hands. There is no doubt, then, that Muslim women are required by their religion to cover their heads.

As far as I know to date, Islamic Shariah does not call for capital punishment in response to violations of Islamic modesty. My apologies for not knowing more - I am rather dull on matters of the application of Islamic law by an Islamic government.

Maraja` (qualified Islamic scholars, as termed by Shia Islam) technically achieve their positions after decades of study under other qualified scholars. I have discussed the topics that they study in order to become qualified as marj`as in other posts. After attaining the level of marj`a and publishing a risala containing their fatwas on matters from everyday worship to contractual duties to family life to crime and punishment, they are usually titled Ayatullah. I used the word "technically" because there is an unfortunate tendency for some people to take the title Ayatullah or claim some level of Islamic scholarship either without having studied properly or after having obtained titular qualification through corrupt means. Obviously, people such as Ayatullah Sistani, Ayatullah Lankarani, etc are not in this category, since they actually did study and were actually certified to issue fatawa.

ISLAMIC SOURCE-TEXTS
There is only one Qur'an. Sunni Islam and Shia Islam each have unique interpretations of parts of it, though. The science of Qur'an' interpretation is a scholarly science: one is not considered capable of delivering an interpretation of the Qur'an until he or she has been trained by a qualified scholar and has been approved to issue interpretations of the Qur'an.

As far as Prophetic Narrations, many of them are common between us. Those that are not define us into two different sects. There are also those that are common to us that have been interpreted differently or have been valued differently between us. As with the Qur'an, narrating and interpreting Prophetic Narrations is an Islamic science that is passed on through qualified intructors and certified through their approval.

Islamic scholarship, in terms of the practise of the laity, is determined by training in the Islamic sciences by a reliable instructor whose chain of training and knowledge is unbroken until the very early days of Islam. One is considered to be a reliable scholar after one has been approved by a reliable instructor or scholarly committee. Scholarly consensus is determined by an examination of the rulings that have been issued by qualified Islamic scholars. Since the sources of Islamic scholarship are different between Shia and Sunni Islam, various rulings will also differ.

There has been a movement of Muslims in recent centuries, but especially within the past few decades, that consider the Islamic sciences to be a resource accessible by the laity for their own use in determining their own beliefs and practises. These are usually considered to be deviants. There is a movement of these away from Sunni Islam and another away from Shia Islam.

Analytical Reasoning or Logic is a thing studied by those in the process of scholarly training and is resorted to when there is no apparent source-text or scholarly precident for an issue. I have no idea whether instructional techniques are different between Shia and Sunni Islam, but I do know that there is a claim of differences in the methods of using this Islamic science.

Answer 7

Ima muslim and i think that WROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNGGGG
maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnn
*phew* Thank Allah (ha ha get it?)
everybody else gets opunished?
wrooooong wrong wrong wrong
nobody deserves to die.
everybody deseves to get laid.
and my friend just smacked me on the head and told im psycho.
oohhh daahhhhling what a pleasant surprise.
and she says 'people are gonna think im mental and that you only wanted to know if agreed or not. then she said noone wants to know what ur friedn thinks. then shes like stop repeating wth. then slapped me,

dance

Answer 8

Good example of an extremist.

Definitely DON'T support him.

Answer 9

obviously not. that guy has problems.

Answer 10

if you think that's bad then watch the following link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojIzkNa5tMM