"I can’t be covering my body with black cloth all the time”: Fed up Muslim woman ends marriage

"I can’t be covering my body with black cloth all the time”: Fed up Muslim woman ends marriage

religion   9:06:00 AM

A woman in Ilorin told a court to dissolve her two year marriage because she refused to stay in purdah, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
The purdah practice requires married Muslim women to stay in separate rooms, behind a curtain or dress in all-enveloping clothes, usually black in colour, in other to say out of the sight of men or strangers. Come rain or burning sun, they cannot step out in public without the purdah.
But Azanat Bashiru told the court that Mumin Bashiru, her husband of two years and father of their two children, did not tell her before they got married in 2014 that she would be put in purdah.
“This is not in our agreement. I cannot be covering my body with black cloth, including my eyes, all of the time,’’ she said.
Mumin did not raise any objection. “If she doesn’t agree to be in purdah, she is free to go,’’ he said.
But he demanded custody of their two children.
(NAN)

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“This is against nature,”- Pope Francis warns against teaching kids about Transgender identity in schools

“This is against nature,”- Pope Francis warns against teaching kids about Transgender identity in schools

religion   7:11:00 PM

Leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis has stated his disagreement with teaching kids in school about transgender issues. According to the Pope, teaching kids to change their sexual identity is a war against marriage, saying changing a kid’s mentality on sexual identity in schools is ‘ideological colonization’.

On Sunday, during a return flight to Rome at the end of a three-day trip to Georgia and Azerbaijan, the Pope talked about a meeting with a French man whose young son wanted to be a girl after reading about it in a textbook in school.
According to the Pope, he still spends time with Transgender people, trying to lead them closer to God.
“This is against nature,” he said. “It is one thing when someone has this tendency … and it is another matter to teach this in school. To change the mentality, I call this ideological colonization. Today, in schools they are teaching this to children to children! that everyone can choose their gender,” Pope Francis



Sometime in August, the Pope blasted the teaching of gender identity in schools, calling it ‘terrible’
Francis DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Ministry, a Catholic LGBT advocacy group has criticized the Pope, saying people ‘discover their identity’, they don’t ‘choose it’
“The pontiff’s remarks are further evidence that church officials need desperately to educate themselves about the lives and experiences of LGBT people,” said Francis DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Ministry. Nobody chooses a gender identity. They discover it.”

Jesus was never crucified according to Bible written 1500 years ago found in Turkey

Jesus was never crucified according to Bible written 1500 years ago found in Turkey

religion   3:21:00 AM

An ancient Bible has been discovered in Ankara, Turkey which is believed to have been written 1500 years ago.
The Bible also claimed that Jesus was just a prophet and not the son of God and he ascended to Heaven alive.
Another claim in the Bible was that Judas Ischariot never committed suicide but was crucified.
The book was confiscated from a band of smugglers who also had explosives and antiques with them.
The acclaimed Bible is written in golden ink and and in Aramaic dialect.
Some scholars have branded the Bible a forgery that was written in the Middle ages.
The Vatican has however asked Turkish authorities to release the book so they would study it.