Amina Wadud joins Hargey publicity stunt

Posted on 19th October, 2008 by

Three years after the “Historic Jumah” in which a small number of people in New York did an invalid “Friday prayer” at a church in New York, Amina Wadud turns up in Oxford to lead what seems like an even smaller group at a Masonic Hall. A writer at Ummah Pulse did some investigation into the accuracy of some BBC reports (that it was in a mosque), and this is what he came up with.

As for the proof of the invalidity of the prayer of anyone who “prayed” behind Wadud, here is a collection of opinions by some modern scholars of Islam who are not ranting extremists (PDF, I’m afraid); I also wrote a few articles tackling not only the “prayer” itself but the media response to it and some of Wadud’s other antics ([1], [2], [3]). I wonder if she is aware (or if she cares) about Hargey’s well-documented deviations, such as believing that the hadeeth contain so many forgeries and fabrications that they should not be used to derive legal rulings, but rather that Muslims should use the Qur’an alone? Can’t she get any more publicity back home? Both of them know that they will only fool non-Muslims with this, that Muslims will reject them and will incur the hostility of liberals; I suspect that this is Hargey’s aim.

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  • http://WriteousSisterSpeaks.wordpress.com Aaminah

    Asalaamu alaikum.

    Yeah… this is just silliness. Sorry it had to cross over to you guys over there too, LOL. Maybe she thought folks in the UK would be more accepting of her weirdness, LOL, but I’m glad to hear you all aren’t falling for it either. I find it particularly odd and farce-like that she would have done this in a Masonic temple.

  • http://www.islamicpolitik.com Afs-M

    It tends to come in waves. Sherry Jones was meant to come on her book tour in October. Maybe Irshad Manji is about to pay the Isles a visit to?

  • Umm Ahmed

    I found it interesting to read that Ummah pulse article about his roots in South Africa

  • Indigo Jo

    As-Salaamu ‘alaikum Umm Ahmed,

    Actually, in the response to his appearance on the 2005 John Ware Panorama, it appeared that he had claimed to be starting the “first black newspaper” (and he’s not even black), when in fact it was no such thing. Actually, I don’t care if he’s a Qadiani; his deviation and lack of attachment to the Muslim community is obvious even without that issue.