5 quotes by Haleh Afshar (1944-), Shi'a Islam

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Haleh Afshar

Women who chose to fight for their rights in the context of Islam and its teaching are breaking new paths that had been barred to them for over a millennium. The process has been slow and hard and different in different countries. Throughout, the most effective strategy has been to insist that Islam does not recognize intermediaries between God and the believers, and each Muslim has the right to discover her/his faith and engage with it through the very words of God as recorded in the Koran.

One of the interesting similarities between Islam and Judaism is that there is no intermediary between a person and God. There is no hierarchy of validity of interpretation other than what culturally people tend to want to respect clerics. Different cultural subgroups respect different clerical leaders and in many cases, no leaders at all. The latter is the majority in Judaism but still the minority among Muslims, The Baroness is one of the Islamic Reformers who gives little or no credence or respect to intermediaries especially males.

Haleh Afshar

No human being - and certainly no man - has the right to define for me what my understanding of God is.

Haleh Afshar

Persians had women leading the army, women leading the country, women who govern for thousands of years.

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Haleh Afshar

Born: May 21, 1944
Nationality: Shi'a Islam
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Biography

Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar, OBE FAcSS is a British life peer in the House of Lords.

HALEH AFSHAR

(Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar)