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...political infighting could yet scuttle the deal once it goes to a vote in parliament, perhaps in early March, say the law's detractors. "The feeling is that the law is focused very much on sectarianism," says Saleh al-Mutlaq, who heads the National Dialogue Front, a small secular party with 11 seats in parliament. "It divides the country and the wealth into groups - Kurds, Sunnis, Shi'ites," he said on the phone from Amman on Tuesday...
...Dallas Seminary, whom the Discovery Channel had vet the film two weeks ago, adds another objection: why would Jesus's family or followers bury his bones in a family plot and "then turn around and preach that he had been physically raised from the dead?" If that objection smacks secular readers as relying too heavily on scripture, then Bock's larger point is still trenchant: "I told them that there were too many assumptions being claimed as discoveries, and that they were trying to connect dots that didn't belong together...
...book is a testament to the heterogeneity of the American Muslim experience. Not all Muslim females agree with the feminist leanings of Asra Nomani, and, to his credit, Barrett isn’t afraid to document the dissent. But the myriad opinions from American politicians, journalists, religious and secular Muslim leaders, children, and others straddles the fine line between just enough and too much. The barrage of quotations can sometimes be overwhelming, and it is often difficult to keep track of the different voices—including Barrett’s, which is absent for the majority of the book...
...There's a distant cousin of mine, born into a secular family, who decided to start wearing hejab to marry a more religious man she deeply loved. Her mother was mortified, and we all reacted a bit snobbishly at first, but with the passing of time it has become very ordinary. Then take the case of a family acquaintance from a very wealthy and devout family in Mashad, Iran's shrine city; he ended up being snared by a young woman of little religious conviction, who happily assumed greater propriety and more modest dress to cement the match. Most recently...
...matches would have been unlikely in the Iran of my parents' generation, where social classes were impermeable, people mostly married within their religious and financial caste, and hejab was an inherited, fixed custom within specific groups. Back then, the daughters of veiled women learned to veil, the daughters of secular women learned to go bare-headed, and both were taught to regard the other, respectively, as backward or immoral. Such attitudes, as you might imagine, were not conducive to peaceful coexistence in a country that is composed of religious traditionalists, Westernized secularists, and everything in between. That these days...