There's not much that really has me stumped in this world but the news (via Osama Saeed's Twitter account) that Glasgow Central Mosque were tonight holding a debate and a vote on whether to end voting individuals onto the Management Committee had me so.
The reason for the proposal was seemingly a concern that voting was un-Islamic. I can't say much about that due to my ignorance on the matter as a whole but I don't really know how it's meant to work otherwise.
Granted, Britain has the Queen, Iran has the Ayatollah and the USA has Oprah Winfrey. All unelected leaders of their lands doing not that much harm in the grand scheme of things but I wouldn't have thought that a modern organisation would wish to have anything other than a democratic process in place.
If a management committee isn't elected then how would a new one come about? Would the last group voted in hold their positions indefinitely? Would it be hereditary? And is it not a bit ironic to be voting to end voting in the first place?
And the final vote was 58% in favour of abolishing elections with a two thirds majority required to pass the motion. So most people in the Mosque don't want elections and yet they shall continue?
I have these thoughts with no judgements nor drawn conclusions. I am merely stumped by it all is all.
Carla in bronze
5 minutes ago
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Do you have no thoughts or conclusions because the thought police may arrest you for expressing a view on this? Be brave, hold a private opinion and don't tell us what it is.
This might help, Jeff.
http://www.iol.ie/~afifi/BICNews/Trends/trends1.htm
I was stumped until I read it. It's all about the balance of greater and lesser evils.
Interestingly enough, Jehovah's Witnesses do not stand for political office; they see themselves as salt and light for the world, rather than the leaders of it. I understand this, although I think it's a bit extreme; someone's got to take decisions about roads and sewage and the like..
This pisses me off:
"Proceedings are underway. I'll be Twittering updates, especially for all you ladies that aren't allowed to be here"
(from Osama Saeed's Twitter)
If this was a golf club banning over half the population, there'd be no end of opinions going back and forth.
But cause misogyny is carried out in the name of undefined ethereal faith-based beings, it's OK and should be respected.
Baws to that.
Thanks Julie, very interesting, I understand a bit more now.
I don't think this line would look too good on a manifesto though:
"What is most important is that a Muslim must remain positive and actively engaged in the effort to implement the revealed laws of Allah, whether partially or in their totality depending on circumstances and resources. The essence of Allah's laws, 'for which all Divine messages were sent, is the establishment of justice for mankind."
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