Comments on: On freedom of religion and the marginalisation of Muslims (and atheists)

By: tom

tom — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 07:17:09 +0000

Hipocrasy, is a conumdrum! who follows their Faith or way of life the way they should.

Having 3 people doing 2 peoples work with different cultures aim for diversity…

Does it not make sense to easily understand that I, YOU can act in a moral way of concensus with a benefit of doubt that the situation at the time is ethical. This is to allow and incorporate a true reflection of any religion to be practised.

Diversity of Religious ignorance.

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By: MOHAMEDALY HANWARE

MOHAMEDALY HANWARE — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:23:51 +0000

@dont get me started
will check and let you know

By: dontgetmestarted

dontgetmestarted — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:28:33 +0000

@MOHAMEDALY

I am correct, am I not, in thinking the Friday prayer is not obligatory for females?

By: nkululeko

nkululeko — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:05:22 +0000

This has reminded me so much of some of the CC judgements. The majority bullies the minority into a corner and ensures further subjection. This is rather pitiful but shows how the CC has made some of their bizzare judgements (my opinion of course).
And I guess the UWC admin should take the course and another on cultural and religious diversity.

By: Ishmael Malale

Ishmael Malale — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:11:54 +0000

Han Ware good intervention. The varsities will learn!

By: MOHAMEDALY HANWARE

MOHAMEDALY HANWARE — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:01:20 +0000

@dont get me started:

No broader issues here, the friday prayer is a fixed time affair. Muslims are obliged to pray five times a day. at fixed times. If for some reason a prayer is missed it can be made up at a later stage. However the friday mid day prayer is the most important prayer of the week and can not be made up at a later stage nor can it be missed unless it is not humanely possible. The irony of the this is that the exam in question was the constitutional law exam and part of the curriculum was freedom of religion.

By: Ishmael Malale

Ishmael Malale — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:48:12 +0000

It was indeed a good and illuminating debate. We are all learning qualitatively.

By: nkululeko

nkululeko — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:29:24 +0000

As far back as I can remember Muslim students (or pupils) have been granted that hour off on a Friday to do their prayers. I would imagine that it is some sort of obligation that must be satisfied on a Friday at that time unless matters are beyond human control.

I am also under the impression that if one cannot handle fasting and added stress then they may be allowed not to fast for that period and fast the following year. And I think the fasting month was earlier this year, or was it simply my imagination?

I doubt we need to do a comparative analysis with foreign institutions. We have our own institutions, our own cultures and religions as well as our wonderful Constitution. We should work within that framework.

Garg’s point is noted. A supp exam has fewer people. And those of us who got through our University life without any supps would be quite to point out that its the students’ fault that they had to write a supp and they should take what they gat and be satisfied. There are those of us who wouldn’t readily support that view.

By: Garg Unzola

Garg Unzola — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:24:21 +0000

@dontgetmestarted:
You are quite right. Also, the exam in question was a supplementary exam, for that it is worth.