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Gramad Ahmed Allahi who is

as far as I'm concerned, brothers and sisters, 2015 is way too late to have had this statement released.

I don't understand why it took so long and this is a no-brainer. It should have been done from the very beginning

in our Masajid and the fact of the matter is yes I grew up in the 70s and 80s we saw the

reality of how it was but that doesn't mean it has to be reality to how it is or how it's

going to be.

And it's about time that we understand that our sisters are our twin halves.

This is a Hadith.

Our prophet, so I said, Innam an N nizah, shakah urijal, that women are the twin halves of men.

And Allah Subhana what I was all that is the Quran.

Well, mopminu, and what mopminat,

but al-moutminat, U baud, the believing men, they believe they are supporters and helpers of one another.

We simply cannot as a community deprive half of our community from coming to the holiest

place in the world and that is the

Masajid. Now brothers and sisters very simple now there are and let's be honest

here there are some strands of Islam there are some interpretations of Islam

that do encourage their women to not go to the

Masajid and there are some sisters as well who think that they are closer to

Allah by praying at home. My position is very clear. You know what, that's an individual decision

of a woman to make.

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