I have some ????s and comments on this Abu Essa affair after reading his latest attempt to explain his juvenile tweets and whatnot on International Womens Day: 1) Since when can bratty adolescents become shaykhs? 2) What in the h-e-double hockey sticks is going on in Britain? Why is all the crazy sh*t always happening in Britain? I really would love some intelligent answers here. I have asked many British friends. Some give me good sociological insights. 4) This, right here, is the schtick: 4. Accordingly, as per the principles of the Qur’an and Sunnah and using established evidences as per the sciences of Usul and Fiqh, I challenge any single feminist scholar to a public debate as to who believes in and teaches the most correct and fair opinion about women and their rights *within Islam*, and who truly defends them, and who truly cares most for them in this life and the Next. He sets the rules, he quotes what he chooses to quote, everyone else falls in line. Easy! Why would anyone give up that hustle? Cant win this one, its not the right game. Though it is certainly worth learning the tradition, if not only to appreciate this persons multiple areas of arrogance. **note how much authority he has. this is a crisis.** 5) I really did a bit of a double take as I got to the latter part of this sentence. It begins with a familiar trope - if anyone took offense, etc... that you will think will end with another familiar trope...then I sincerely apologize, I did not mean offense... But no! Instead we get: 5. If anyone took any comment, joke, meme, sarcastic response or anything that I said as a support for haram actions, abuse, harassment of women and some kind of conferring of acceptability to Islamically impermissible social stereotypes, then you seriously need your head examining. That is quite frankly preposterous. What??? Hilarious! What a guy. 6) Call it romanticism but I long for some imagined past where Islamic leadership were known for their humility, awe in the face of the vastness of opinion in the tradition and the fine quality of the thought therein, for kindness, and for a greater mastery over the nafs than most others. Without impugning the many fine people around the world who meet this description (including many women, Shaykh Abu Eesa), our standards for spiritual leadership today are in general simply way too low.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 08:24:44 +0000
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