Accepting others choice of religion and life style has been a self claimed hall mark of western society. Including France. But now their composure is slipping. Banning the niqab is the case in point. What are they doing to women? The women on the receiving end this time are our women unfortunately. The Qur'anic injunction is rather clear in this regard. On the Day of Resurrection if somebody says that I did not observe purdah because I was living in France of Netherlands where it was banned then the argument will be presented that has the earth created by Allah(SWT) become so small that you had no other place to go?
And the employment situation does not remain a valid argument by now. The reason is clear. West is cutting jobs. And the western people are making a beeline for gulf jobs. And the western economy has hit the ceiling.
This is time of grave uncertainties so major readjustments have to be made.
There is a lesson for the west also. As they say that every crisis is an opportunity. (There is opportunity without crisis also-only if we could look properly at the world around us.) This is the time to revise your assessment of Islam (if not Muslims-they really might be the worst practitioners of Islam). Islam is a Mercy from your Lord to you also. Only if you could take heed. (And if this looks like a facile-lame duck argument then we are only partially to be blamed.)
And the employment situation does not remain a valid argument by now. The reason is clear. West is cutting jobs. And the western people are making a beeline for gulf jobs. And the western economy has hit the ceiling.
This is time of grave uncertainties so major readjustments have to be made.
There is a lesson for the west also. As they say that every crisis is an opportunity. (There is opportunity without crisis also-only if we could look properly at the world around us.) This is the time to revise your assessment of Islam (if not Muslims-they really might be the worst practitioners of Islam). Islam is a Mercy from your Lord to you also. Only if you could take heed. (And if this looks like a facile-lame duck argument then we are only partially to be blamed.)