She is a true symbol of Turkish women and we are all proud of her. She is a bright example of a Turkish scholar. And although it’s nobody else’s concern, let me also add that she herself states at every chance that she is a believer. She knows how to evaluate faith and science within their own terms.

To the author: Now take your narrow mind and hatred with you and leave this planet.

Where were you to defend your Allah’s and Mr Mohammed’s mercifulness toward these Indonesian school girls?

Still, peace and love of God Almighty be with you and your family.

What a wonderful implementation of the teachings of Al Quran and of the respected example of The Prophet.

But some commentors ranted about Muhammed (SAV). First Muhammed is not an Arab Leader born without a known father and his mother is not a holy sexual toy.
He was known as Al-Amin before his duty of holy message according to his trustfulness. Also nearly all Rabbani religions consider he is a descendant of Abraham from his second wife, Hagar. Please be respectful to holy creatures. Of course God knows everything and he is the most merciful.

It seems like the muslim male, created a tool to control, induce a power of the fear of god, to dominate the female to harem them for their own sexual games.

It is nothing new, or exclusive to muslim males to use whatever tool they can create and use, to attract for a sexual purpose a female, and to hold control over the females.

This is just a strange, old and primitive foreplay before the actual sexual act.

Maybe I am wrong, and again, maybe I am not.

If the woman fall for it, that is all up to her. But if she is forced, brutalize, and abused, then that shows, that the (muslim) system failed in this respect. In Arab countries, to the beduins and other Arab tribes a donkey and camel always had more value than a woman or a child. Due to the fact, that donkey and camel could carry a load, and women were to weak to do so.

This goes to the totemic times of the religious evolutions in the Arab peninsula, and some North African regions. That is why, you will see in the muslim countries the symbols of crescent moon symbolizing the “god” or in Arabic “allah”, for it was the light source in the night for traveling beduins and nomads, as a sun was the light source in the daytime travels. Arabs, nomads and beduins called “allah” all things which could be translated in today’s terms as a supernatural phenomena such as existence of sun, stars, some other supernatural things. So, nomads, beduins and Arabs used “allah” name rather freely and not particularly to any single event or deity.

People who used Mr. Mohammed person to own gains, took it one step further, to follow the old Persian Zoroastrism religious believes in one-single God, Ahura Mazda. Single God believes predate islamic times by couple of thousands of years. So, MUSLIMS are misled by own religious leaders by telling MUSLIMS that “allah” is the only single god there is and was, etc..

But these things keep people busy. Sunnis are blowing them selves up, to get few Shi’ia and vs. It all turned to a chaos, hate, racism, and all that stuff associated with the mix of political communism and nazism.

In case to be on safe side, I better cut your head off before.

Whatever.

Islam has it that women cover their hair during prayer. Period.
What do we know next? The headscarf has become a money spinning business and women are adorning their heads with sequinned headscarfs.

Obviously for all intents and purpose, the women inhabitants of the vast desert land were forced by desert sand storms to literally cover their entire bodies from head to toe except for a small aperture at their eyes or they might be bumping into men with disastrous results.
Guess what? We have Ninja Muslim women in various parts of the world where there is absolutely no sand storm.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_iftekhar_070405_of_skirts_and_scarve.htm “Ž

Parts of the Muslim world reacted to western domination by focussing on superficial “Žthings like skirts and headscarves: other areas made more intelligent decisions. “Ž

And as for the 92-year-old child of the Kamalist revolution, Muazzez Ä°lmiye Çığ of “ŽTurkey, we have to observe that, while she may have a firm grasp on Sumerian sexual “Žrituals, she needs to bone up on contemporary economic history.

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A 93-yar-old Turkish expert on Sumer, Muazzez Illmiye Cig, observed that head-scraves were not Islamic because they had been worn even by women in Sumer. She advised the wife of the Turkish president not to wear a head-scarf in public. The episode has created a storm.

First I don’t see in the article any suggestion that she finds head scarves un-Islamic because they predate Islam, she has only stated that they do and that they were possibly used in pagan rituals.

As far as I am aware she has never stated that as a reason for rejecting headscarves. Quite likely the reason that she rejects headscarves as Un Islamic is because nowhere in Al Quran is there a demand for women to wear them!

Peace

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is important.

Muhammad started this movement against legal system in Mekka, who/which ban him for his antagonistic attitude toward its citizens and the political system. He must have been put through some legal court system there and then, and was convicted of crimes against the current laws of Mekka, that the court order to ban him to return to Mekka.

From here, the roads can lead many different ways. Also I have two questions here if I may:

1. How much of Mohamed what we know is a legend? and
2. How much of Mohammed we know is true?

Compare Mohammed theme with the late el-Bab a prominent Muslim who was slaughtered (executed) on Ayatollahs and mullahs orders, by theTurks not that long ago.

Peace to all of us here on this small blue dot of ours.

Hello Iftekhar Sayeed!
Good point of view, and very well stated.
As far as Isis and lets add Osiris her son, to it, that is wonderful story of human development. As such, may be the story of Ishtar, which is much closer to the Arab center. Both were goddesses, and both thrived in that area many centuries before beduins and nomads got some ideology of some supreme god-like being.

Ms Cig, and I do voice my respect to her for her scientific studies and the time she spent on the issues. She is just a scholar, and I do not see any reasons why Muslim are raising dust about her work. Does Allah need some Muslim support?

Islam is a collective of many beduin and nomadic beliefs all put together into one pot. Most religions are same way, one way or another.

However, Islam is the only religion movement which started with violence and it is still in internal havoc and bloodshed.

Take a look at Christianity. The Master Jesus walked and was teaching peace and respect of others. If you look at Buddha, you will find wonderful philosophical principals which worked during his times, and are as valid today, as they were then. Look at Dalai Lama! Do not forget great Mahatma Gandhi. There are many, many others, which the names we will never know, but we have some inner peace because of them.

It is poor approach by Muslims, and I do not mean to be negative toward their religion, not at all, that they create the hole in the whole thing just to get some attention, or the things will have to turn their way, or it will end up like in Iraq today.

The problem came in, after Saddam’s downfall. Suni goes on Shi’ia, Shi’ia turn on Shi’ia, Suni turns on Sunis. No one knows why, but want to be on safe side with Allah, so the killings have to continue, in case, no one noticed how important Islam is.

Iftekhar Sayeed, it was good to hear from you! Thank you and peace be to you, your family and your country!

In these circumstances, as I have observed before, the worse the logic, the more interesting the situation. What is Ms. Cig reasoning from? It is not enough to say “the head-scarf was worn in pre-Islamic times, so it’s not Islamic”. The major premise must be: “Whatever is pre-Islamic is not Islamic”. Take circumcision, which was pre-Islamic. According to Ms. Cig’s logic, circumcision is not Islamic, and any Muslim parent can retain their son’s foreskin with perfect piety. I wonder if she herself has any sons who would fit that description. Or take ritual slaughter, which was pre-Islamic: according to the learned lady, all Muslims can chop off the heads of their chickens and roast them over a fire with a clear conscience. In fact, her reasoning would render Eid-ul-Azha passé.

But surely she can extend the scope of her reasoning thus: “Whatever precedes the birth of a religion does not pertain to that religion”. Thus, baptism, a practice that preceded Christianity, is not really Christian. Or take the worship of Isis which preceded the adoration of Mary: the latter is rendered unChristian by the former. Ancestor-worship preceded Confuciansim, a bureaucratic state religion, which, by that reasoning, has no special claims on reverence of ancestors – one of its defining characteristics.

Fortunately, there is a term for this fallacy: the It-Is-Merely fallacy. The head-scarf precedes Islam; ergo, it is merely pre-Islamic. Non sequitur.