Comments on: Umayma al-Zawahiri on Women’s Role in Jihad

By: steve

steve — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:53:01 +0000

I don’t think there’s any ambiguity in it really, I think the message is that the ‘fundamental’ commitment of women is to the family but ‘martyrdom operations’ are equally permissible, although of a lesser priority.

By: JustanotherReader

JustanotherReader — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:45:31 +0000

Just on the verb Rabata, it means ‘to tie a knot’, quite significantly it is the knot that ties the nomad’s tent/home, it is the basis of survival, the vital knot. The active participle murabbita(t) is formed on the form II of this verb, that which extends the meaning to ‘to turn into’ ‘to make’ and so here ‘to make a knot’. The important point being that this reinforces – without being explicitly explanatory – the role that muslim women are said to bear: the active knot/link in muslim communities, the ones that make/tie that (vital) link. It is therefore a natural slide that in times of war muslim women’s role is that of support OUT of the field or ON the field. The emphasis is that they remain/stay and do not flee. This I believe is the point of murrabitat in modern times: a reminder to the men (not the women) of muslim society’s structure. The extent of violence on women perpetrated not by foreign forces but by the muslim men that partake (or not) in jihad is such that communities are in shattered pieces, and the potential of for a successful Jihad is diminished.

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Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:54:04 +0000

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