Re: Quake punishment for ‘immoral activities’: Farhat Hashmi
One person came up with a good point. Whoever wrote the article might be biased against farhat hashmi and might be trying to slander her. She might never have said those words. Its quite common for the media to misreport statements and put words in peoples' mouths or change a tone of an issued statement.
On the other hand, from watching some of her lectures on ARY...I do believe that she is quite extremist in her views. The only thing I really have a problem with is sometimes she'll give these lectures without quoting Quran ayahs or Sunnah and explaining how she comes up with her theories. No real scholar will refuse to quote in a lecture or to publish their theories backed up by references.
She definitely does tend to captivate the female audiences. Her lectures on women's issues are overall not offensive to women's lib, from the lectures I have heard. If she's said anything offensive, I haven't heard or seen those lectures.
I do tend to think her niqaab is a bit overdone.