Deedat' somersault over women praying in the Mosque

[Taj]

DEEDAT MAKES A SOMERSAULT OVER TV ?

"In what was construed by Muslims as a somersault in his views on Muslim women attending mosques after the "MAJLIS" attack on Deedat, in wanting to correct his views on a subject over TV, Mr. Deedat landed himself into further hot water, as the following letter to the Muslim Digest at the time shows:


DEAR SIR,
"I am sure that thousands of Muslim women must have seen the TV program recently when Mr Ahmed Deedat of Durban spoke about Muslim women not being encouraged to pray in the mosque with men. I think most Muslim women will be disappointed with Mr Deedat's poor showing of Muslim women on the TV programme, and personally I am utterly disgusted at the uncouth manner in which Mr Deedat explained why women are not encouraged to come and pray in the mosque.

Firstly, we Muslim women do not pray WITH the men in the mosques, and Mr Deedat Knows that there are separate halls, galleries, etc attached to the mosques, for Muslim women where prayer facilities are provided.

This is why I think I will be expressing the utter disgust of all Muslim womanhood when Mr Deedat gave as reason for Muslim women not being encouraged to come and pray in the mosque, is that at the time of ablution (WUZU) women have to lift their legs (and Mr Deedat even lifted his leg to demonstrate!) in the presence of men when they are making WUZU. Mr Editor, Mr Deedat knows that women don't make ablution (wuzu) WITH the men in any mosque. In fact, in nearly all cases, when Muslim women go to pray in mosques where separate faculties exist for prayer, they make WUZU at home and come.

Mr Deedat should be ashamed of himself for insulting and disgracing Muslim womanhood in front of the public on TV, especially as he claims to be a preacher of Islam. Please print this Mr Editor without fail.

From all the foregoing it will be seen that Deedat has no real knowledge about ISLAM at all. His religious knowledge is found wanting. What he preaches and writes about Islam is most dangerous and Muslims are asked to take note of this and reject his so called no. 19 Computer theory of the Qur'an reject his controversial lectures, reject his first GURU Joseph Perdu and reject his second GURU Rashad Khalifa too, who now says the last two verses of the Qur'an are false and should not have been included in the Holy Qur'an by those who compiled it, implying in other words, that Caliph Omar and Caliph Uthman should not have included the last 2 verses of Sura 9 in the Qur'an. In other words it means that the various Qur'an translations that Deedat advertisers and sells left, right and centre, are no more the LAST Testament, and the Qur'an is no more the ULTIMATE MIRACLE!" (M.D., p.54-55)

[After all that, no wonder the Muslim digest else where went on to say]

...Deedat is only a "pretender" to the "ISLAMIC THRONE". Deedat realy represents nobody, but himself. He does not represent the Muslims of the world; he does not represent the Muslim of South Africa; he does not represent the Muslims of Natal; he does not represent the Muslims of Durban; he does not represent the Muslims of his own little town of Verulam either where he resides, and in fact that the Trustees of the Verulam Muslim MOSQUE have even banned Deedat from making a speech or lecture in the only Muslim Mosque in his own home town of VERULAM. (M. D., p.140)