{"id":813,"date":"2005-07-10T18:56:19","date_gmt":"2005-07-10T18:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/akramsrazor\/2005\/07\/10\/giving_credit_w\/"},"modified":"2013-05-07T18:41:01","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T23:41:01","slug":"giving_credit_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/akramsrazor\/2005\/07\/giving_credit_w\/","title":{"rendered":"Women & mosques: Giving credit where it’s due"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

UmmZaid<\/a>\u00a0 made the following observation about my entry on \"Muslim organizations waking up to discrimination in mosques\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Salaam \u2018Alaikum<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"I\u2019d wonder if this wasn\u2019t a cynical PR move by hardliners in the establishment who\u2019ve been embarassed by the Asra Nomani crusade\u2026\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I just have to point out, b\/c this point seems to be missed time and again, that although CAIR released the document, it was written by Shahina Siddiqui and done in conjunction with Women in Islam, led by the very venerable Aisha al Adawiya.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Many people are unaware that until Asra Nomani got a book deal, myself and Ms. Siddiqui were the only women (that I know of) who had written and been published on the issue of masjid access (myself in 1999 and 2001 and Ms. Siddiqui in 2001).\u00a0 There can be no doubt that Ms. Adawiya was also raising this issue and discussing it for a long time as well.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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In other words, one needs to look beyond CAIR\u2019s involvement and thinking about their motivations, and recognize that the women who wrote it and who were instrumental in its production were working on this issue long before Asra Nomani jumped on the bandwagon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Thanks for the great and helpful comment, UmmZaid.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiments expressed and certainly did not intend to deny the credit that is due to the author of and various contributors to this pioneering work.<\/p>\n

We all owe you and the others working on this a debt of gratitude, not only for this document, but\u00a0 for laying the seeds long ago and keeping at it long before the topic became trendy.<\/p>\n

My observation about CAIR was only meant to highlight the radical discursive shift that is occuring within the community leadership on this topic. Insha\u2019Allah, it\u2019ll translate into changed practices soon, as well.<\/p>\n

As Nomani\u2019s role here, I find that rather ambiguous.\u00a0 She certainly contributed to raising the profile of the issue and turning up the heat under community leaders who otherwise might not have taken this issue as seriously as they should\u2019ve, but at the same time I think\u00a0 she also did so in a sensationalistic way that reinforced prejudices that all Muslims (regardless of gender) must contend with.\u00a0 So while I\u2019m sure many in the PMU camp will attribute this breakthrough to Asra Nomani, her legacy is a bit more mixed, in my view<\/p>\n

I\u2019m reminded of how the American Right proudly claims that Reagan masterminded the glorious defeat of the USSR.\u00a0 He may have inadvertantly set in motion some forces that contributed to its fall, but the assumption that this development was a direct result of his leadership is, as Michael Kinsley shows, highly debatable<\/a>.\u00a0 One could argue that, for all his good intentions,\u00a0 Reagan\u2019s ideological rigidity and military brinksmanship were counterproductive to the cause of peace, and were by any reasonable standard as likely to lead to a nuclear holocaust as the demise of the Evil Empire .\u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UmmZaid\u00a0 made the following observation about my entry on “Muslim organizations waking up to discrimination in mosques” Salaam \u2018Alaikum “I\u2019d wonder if this wasn\u2019t a cynical PR move by hardliners in the establishment who\u2019ve been embarassed by the Asra Nomani crusade\u2026” I just have to point out, b\/c this point seems to be missed time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-women-in-islam"],"yoast_head":"\nWomen & mosques: Giving credit where it's due - Akram's Razor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UmmZaid  made the following observation about my entry on "Muslim organizations waking up to discrimination in mosques"Salaam\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/akramsrazor\/2005\/07\/giving_credit_w\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Women & mosques: Giving credit where it's due - 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