Comments on: KAUST: a summary http://thegulfblog.com/2009/12/27/kaust-a-summary/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:49:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Zilfa http://thegulfblog.com/2009/12/27/kaust-a-summary/#comment-4070 Wed, 12 May 2010 15:14:53 +0000 http://thegulfblog.com/?p=1926#comment-4070 In the past the Saudi sheiks (and I will not call them Wahhabies just because it is the new cool trend) used to advocate in the media and school curriculums only certain Hadiths (Prophet Mohammed PBUH narratives) which gave indications of a need for segregation, other Hadiths which indicated the clear mixing of genders were kept quiet and not advocated. Now all of the sudden Sheik AlGamdi is telling us about them and others are coming out to join in. Well, where were you guys a long time ago?! That really makes us think what else is kept hush hush.

But I am happy all this confusion has happened. For one, it showed us that in religion we can no longer blindly follow the Sheiks without questioning and bringing in our own reasoning. Isn’t that what religion is about, about one being accountable for his own decisions, or at least trying to do so, and never showing up saying I was persuaded by the majority or by what I learned from my fathers.

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