EU om könsmakt på Islamic Center

EU-kommissionen har givit ut en bok som behandlar muslimer i sekulariserade EU-stater. Islamic Centers VD heter Bejzat Becirov och hans dotter Sofia Becirov. I den stora moskéns styrelse i Malmö sitter även Tommy Carlstein. Hans dotter heter Arjumand Carlstein. Båda döttrarna har enligt boken endast fått inflytande för att deras muslimska fädrar har makt:

"Generally, in these organisations women do not speak as leaders or spokespersons outside or inside the group. The act of making statements might be free, but when they speak, their speech is disciplined and under the surveillance of others.

An interesting situation developed in Malmö at the Islamic Center (sic!) running the only purpose built mosque in Malmö

(see http://www.algonet.se/~icmalmo/).

Sofia Becirov, the daughter of the long time director Bejzat Becirov ran an information campaign for the mosque. She did this together with another young woman, Arjumand Carlstein, who did not wear a veil and was at times criticised for this.

Moreover, she was living with a man without being married who was not even Muslim! She was also very outspoken and personal, and did not work in any of the traditional roles of a da’i.

But after finishing a major project resulting in a book (Insikt, 2002) Arjumand Carlstein stopped working for the Islamic Center but the daughter of the director is still employed.

This far in the history of Islam in Sweden, this is an unusual situation. If a woman holds a position she is very likely married to or the daughter of one of the men who have a power position in the organisation. I am not by this implying that these women are powerless or incompetent, but the possibility of a female Muslim to be perceived as an authority seem to be linked to this kind of relation to a man who have or have had authority."

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DG RESEARCH

Program “Improving the Human Research Potential
and the Socio-Economic Knowledge Base”

5TH FRAMEWORK RESEARCH PROGRAM ACCOMPANYING MEASURE
Contract No HPSE-CT-2001-60027 :

Islam, Citizenship and the Dynamics of European Integration

“EUROPEAN MUSLIMS AND THE SECULAR STATE
IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE”

JUNE 30 & JULY 1, 2003

Källa, sidorna 1 samt 11-12:

http://www.arabphilosophers.com/English/discourse/east-west/Secularism/Final_ICDEI_Symposium.pdf