BS. The community in Britain is fairly well-endowed, and funds can be raised for a mosque that has enough partitioned space. They just do not allow for a special space for women, period.
If I wanted to protest, I'd do it the same way. Stand in front of the mosque, distribute fliers to its people as they're on the way out of prayer and talk to those people to get them to change their minds, and maybe from pressure from the constituents the establishment would make a change.
THAT approach does not deserve a violent retaliation, and the very fact that they reverted to violence shows what base mentality they have and goes hand in hand with the idea that they want the place to be exclusively-male in the first place. It's like a bunch of rabid boy scouts that don't want to play with the girl scouts, except they never grew up.
What surprises me is that such mosques exist in America. But some of you say the Chicago Devon street mosque has no such problem. But my friend says she went there on either Eid or some Taraweeh night or something, and she said there was not a woman to be found on Devon street, and she was actually asked by an uncle why she was there in the first place ON DEVON STREET, and that the uncle told her girls don't come around here on that night.
Excuse you. How can you tell me that's BS? Do you live in the UK?
Do you know a mufti who gave up his home to build a mosque because the local Pakistanis were too tight to donate enough? And when he passed away, the local community didn't even have it in them to help out his wife and daughter who gave the daily lessons for children in the mosque.
My dad is on the board of our local mosque. I know the severe problems they have with with trying to raise money and the council. We have a woman's section, albeit small as the place is small and it's taking years to get planning permission to build another floor. The local residents are completely opposed, they didn't even want a mosque there in the first place. And this mosque was set up and run by a man who was the Councillor for the borough, he did plenty of stuff and still does for the much larger non-muslim community.
A lot of places don't have separate entrances or separate washing facilities and there is not a lot they can do if they don't have the money or permission to get them installed.
And blah blah it might not be a problem for you but you need to acknowledge that a lot of Pakistani muslims are very traditional and would expect separation.
There are mosques that a get a lot more help from the govn. and they are not sunni mosques.
Like I said, there were more issues. WATCH THE PROGRAM BEFORE COMMENTING. But no, it's much easier to make up your own story and get your knickers in a twist.
And like I also said, EGG ISSUE ASIDE, I did not justify it. Get off your high horse.