-J.Hashmi

If so, I’d like to know what the appropriate time and place is that I can use sarcasm like this to humorously point out the failings of others.

I don’t think the sarcasm is the problem. It’s the taunting and mockery that is.

-J.Hashmi

Peacerose says:

Quite simply, one of the signs of the day of judgement is that the scholars will decrease in number , thereby taking the knowledge with them. Result??? DAJJALS AGENTS TAKE OVER.

You’re at a 10, when you need to be at a 2, or a maximum at a 4. “Dajjal agents take over.” Overstatement maybe? Taking it way over the top perhaps?

Poor One has an opposite view of PeaceRose, yet also concludes that:

Another hujjah and proof that one of the signs of the day of judgment as in Saheeh hadeeth, people watching sin being committed and don’t even stop it.

You really think that this single event is a “hujjah” for the signs of the end of times? “Hujjah” is a very strong term!

My comment has nothing really to do with what side you are on (i.e. either supporting or opposing Sh. Tantawi). It really has to do with the fact that we tend to speak in religious hyperbole all the time. Even the du’as invoked by some are just way overboard. It reminds me of the language used in Civilization (a computer game) in which medieval rulers would address the leaders of enemy nation-states, i.e. overly flowery, melodramatic language that just looks silly in the twenty-first century.

Anyways, even if one views niqab as something “only cultural,” why the need to ban it in all-girls schools? Surely those who banned it were familiar with what has happened in France; didn’t they have enough common sense to know what kind of message this would send to non-Muslims? i.e. even the Muslims are banning it in their schools.

Additionally, Sh. Tantawi may have a point that a girl doesn’t need to wear niqab in an all-girls school. But then he asked her to remove it in front of HIM. Correct me if I’m wrong, but Sh. Tantawi is not a girl.

-J.Hashmi