President Beji Caid Essebsi of Tunisia has recently lifted the ban on Muslim Tunisian women who want to marry Christian or Jewish men without the need for those men to convert to Islam as a prerequisite. That is something that had reportedly once been introduced in Tunisia by the late president Bourguiba. The decision has caused a massive uproar which has reverberated throughout the region of the Middle East and North Africa, with countless Muslims- men and women- expressing their consternation at the thought of Muslim women marrying Christian or Jewish men. Many Muslims have used the mass media to try and dissuade any Muslim women who may be thus tempted from even entertaining such thoughts, arguing that what President Essebsi had advocated was a clear and blatant violation of Islam in general and of the Quran in particular.
It is said that the word Sufi is derived from tasawwuf, or the wearing of wool. This is probably a reference to the ascetic nature of Sufis. Prior to the emergence of Sufism as we know it, Muslims had in their early years known some ascetics, such as Abu Dharr Al Ghafari who was one of Muhammad’s companions; those had probably been influenced by the lifestyle of some Christian monks who had chosen to be cloistered in their monasteries, and perhaps also by that of Hindu ascetics.
...the Myanmarians must aim at being their brothers' and sisters' keepers and must learn to build an egalitarian society of fraternal proximity, where faith, ethnic nationality, creed, philosophy, ideology, colour of one's skin do not matter, but what really does matter is that they are all Burmese and human beings or they will perish like fools.
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