veiled4allah: recognizing the equal worth of a woman's life veiled4allah: recognizing the equal worth of a woman's lifeProminent Muslim scholar Yusuf al-Qaradawi pressed for gender equality on the amount of manslaughter blood money. Qaradawi said during a forum in Qatar's Supreme Council for Family Affairs on Wednesday, December 22, that there is no evidence backing that the compensation paid for mistakenly killing a woman should be half that for a slaughtered man.It's good to see prominent scholars willing to re-examine these issues and what the Shari'a really calls for.
"No evidence in the Noble Qur'an supports such arguments on discrimination drawn between men and women in that regard."
The prominent Muslim scholar, who is also head of the International Association of Muslim Scholars (IAMS), said earlier generations of scholars such as Ibn Alia and Al-Aasam used to pay equal blood money to compensate the families of those killed regardless of their gender...
...Sheikh Qaradawi's call was welcomed by a host of prominent scholars attending the forum.
Chief among them are Qatari participants Sheikh Abdul Kadir bin Muhammad al-Amari, the former deputy chief of the Appeal Court, professor Aisha al-Mannaa, the dean of the Shari`ah faculty of Qatar University, and her colleague professor Mohamed Othman Shber.
Al-Mannaa said review of women's share of bloody money would be seen as an effort to promote women rights.
Shber concurred, saying these days are completely different from earlier eras when opinions on women's blood money share were given.
Salem Rashid al-Marrekhi, member of the national human rights committee in Qatar, hailed the scholars' stance on equalizing women's share of blood money as a boost of human rights in the Islamic world.
"Human rights laws don't strike a difference between between males and females."
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