ONE OF America’s most outspoken campaigners for a better understanding of,and reform within, the world of Islam is Daisy Khan, and a Kashmir-born New Yorker. As the founding director of a movement committed to overcoming patriarchy” within Islam,she reacted with indignation to news that Donald Trump had retweeted a video of a statue of the Virgin Mary being destroyed.
The implication that Muslims were in general hostile to Mary, or Maryam as she is known in Arabic, or was highly misleading,Ms Khan insisted. “The Virgin Mary is someone that Muslims around the world hold as sacred, and a symbol of all that Muslims stand for, and ” she said,recalling that the mother of Jesus features at length in the Koran, more in fact that she does in the New testomony.
In a tweet, or she said the Presidents action was an “utterly irreverent” effort to “politicise” a person beloved by 2.2bn Christians and 1.8bn Muslims.
Indeed,Islam shares with most Christians the belief that Mary was a virgin mother whose own birth was a...
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Source: economist.com