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From: yazdani@eng.umd.edu (Sayed M. Naved)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam
Subject: Condemn
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.042528.10626@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 7 Feb 91 04:25:28 GMT
Sender: bes@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Behnam Sadeghi)
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>In article <1991Jan19.064452.16917@wpi.WPI.EDU> Elizabeth S. Tallant writes:
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>>I have been truly disgusted with the behavior of SOME Moslem male classmates.
>>Now, mind you some Moslem men are extremely shy and don't even look at any
>>women when they speak.  Yet, they are those who treat Christian and Jewish
>>women with the utmost disrespect.  They behave as if God put us on this
>>earth for their perverted pleasures.  They chase us, whistle at us, and

I totally agree with Behnam Sadeghi and as a Muslim I too condemn 
this action.

>I am sorry to hear about your personal problems with some of your
>"Moslem" classmates.  If these people believe in Islam (which I
>guess they don't), what you might want to do is to remind
>them of the Holy Qur`an's injunction for believing men
>and women to cast down their gaze while meeting members of the opposite
>sex and to guard their modesty.  If this doesn't work,  maybe you can
>complain to your school's administration and cite them for sexual
>harrassment.
>
>Behnam Sadeghi