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Islam seeks peace, faith not terror,scholar says
By Debra West
Staff writer
The Islamic religion is not a religion of warriors, Jamal Badawi, a professor from Saint Mary's College in Halifax, Novia Scotia, said last night.
Badawi spoke at the Kansas Union about Islamic views of terrorism, jihad and human rights. The speech was sponsored by the Islamic Center of Lawrence and the department of political science.
Badawi said people who commit senseless acts of terrorism are not true Muslims, despite what they may call themselves. He spoke hoping to promote good relationships between Muslims and non-Muslims and to clear up misunderstandings about the religion.
Islam means the attainment of peace through submission to the will of Allah, Badawi said. Jihad has been defined by the media as "holy war." He said this was a grave error.
Jihad is actually the struggle for Allah and guidelines that establish what is acceptable to Allah are set up in the Koran, the Islamic holy book.
It is forbidden for Muslims, who practice Islam, to fight to force people to accept their religion. It also is forbidden to fight to satisfy personal ego, to assert superiority
over another race or to attain personal benefit, Badawi said.
The only acceptable reasons for fighting are self-defense or to remove tyranny that will not allow Muslims peacefully to spread the word of the Allah, as the Koran admonishes them to.
Besides giving guidelines on when fighting is acceptable, the Koran also gives specific rules for behavior before, during and after battle, Badawi said.
The Koran states that the Muslims must declare war. Surprise attacks are forbidden. They also must make a final offer of peace before going to battle.
During the battle, they must give refuge to any enemy who seeks it, spare the lives of anyone not fighting against them and never kill an injured person.
Stealing by force during a war is forbidden as is the torture of prisoners of war. Muslims must never mutilate a body and must allow a dignified burial, Badawi said.
After the battle, the Koran says Muslims must avoid haughtiness, for victory only comes from divine intervention.
The Koran gives certain rights to every person, Badawi said.
Life is sacred, he said, and killing must be justified. Humans have the right of freedom of religion.
Virginity cult rites, earned social status and the marriage of entire families are old prescriptions to contemporary problems such as teenage pregnancy, wife abuse, and divorce.
Prof speaks on African rites
Bv Sandra Crider
Staff writer
These unusual solutions are found in traditional African culture, said a man wearing a flowing orange-patterned robe, a cap of many colors and a digital watch.
"Since the present system does not give any security in marriage or other kinds of values, maybe the answer lies in those traditional values." Nbudi征 E. Nwafor said last night after his program.
Nwafer, visiting professor in African studies, lectured on African cultural heritage in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union. The program was the final event in a series sponsored by the office of minority affairs for Black History Month.
Nwafor is a professor at Idabaun University in Nigeria where he also directs the National Children's Theater, which performs traditional folk plays.
Through music, poetry, dancing,
theatre, masquerades and
ceremonies, high values can be
instilled in young people, he said.
Nwafer told the tale of the African virginity cults. After a young girl reaches puberty, at about the age of 12, she begins to participate in the virginity rites.
Before the wedding of an honorable young woman, all virgins and honorably married women get together to sing and dance to pay
tribute to chastity. The songs of the rites are often sung outside of ceremonies.
Nwafer told his listeners, "Mothers sing it to their daughters whenever they suspect any untoward romance: 'See me, look at me, but don't touch me.'"
In a U.S. society that pays over $19 million a year to deal with teenage pregnancy, he said, such discouragement of premarital sex could be beneficial.
If the girl remains chaste until marriage, she has the opportunity to marry honorably and to be treated well. In their old age, such women are allowed into the council of elders, provided with gold and ivory beads and receive special kinds of respect.
They are the happiest women
alive," Nwafar said. "They are treated with respect and are never beaten in the street."
The prevention of premarital sex also stops wife abuse. Traditional African values preach, in a very convincing way, the same tenet of the "Me" generation: Respect for oneself will elicit the respect of others.
"Critics blame the recent problems of U.S. blacks on inherent inferiority and a decadent culture," Nwafer said. "In many countries in Africa, festivals and ceremonies are the people's theatre where young learn from old."
And culture in Africa anchors family life, he said.
Flasher suspect nabbed near sorority
By Brian Whepley
Staff writer
fronted and held him behind the Kappa Kappa Gamma house, Gower Place.
A man who allegedly had flashed members of a KU sorority house several times since last fall was apprehended by two KU students shortly after midnight yesterday, police said.
Jamison was charged with four counts of lewd and lascivious behavior, said Mike Glover, city prosecutor. Jamison was released on personal recognition bond and will appear in Lawrence Municipal Court in about 10 days.
police said. No one reported a flashing incident last night.
Jamison was arrested in connection with flashing incidents on Oct. 27. Jan. 13 and Jan. 17 at the house,
Margaret Salisbury, Topeka sophomore and resident of the house, said Jamison fit the description of a man who had been flashing house members.
Bernard Clark Jamison, 312 W. 16th St., was arrested by Lawrence police officers after Tighe Larue, Lawrence senior, and Thomas Murphy, Prairie Village sophomore, con-
A man had been seen previously in the parking lot of the house and on the house's fire escape, she said. The man would wait until a woman saw blim and then flash her.
Salisbury off at the house when they saw Jamison coming up the hill. Jamison went up behind Fraser Hall and the chancellor's house and then back down to the sorority house, Larue said. He then hid in some trees near a rear door.
Larue said he and Murphy, who was in another car outside of the house, decided to confront Jamison about the past incidents because they had scared house members.
Larue said he was dropping
"They were pretty nervous."
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