Dawoodi Bohra Forum

Ozdundee: I am not an advocate for the prick in bohra girls so you have no grounds to argue me on this because I am not arguing in favor of the tradition. I am arguing in favor of freedom to practise our own individual beliefs. You have personal reasons for wanting this to stop and I can respect tha...

"Groping is sexual abuse so there is no excuse to commit it. Bohra style fgm is fgm" Reply: I agree that groping is wrong. I am appalled that you consider groping and rape the same - that is a disgraceful opinion to have for any person. There are degrees for fgm too and targeting bohras is...

I am strongly against fgm and would never allow it in my own family but this case brings up major concerns for me. Fgm is a really serious problem in many immigrant populations and often severe enough that it causes psychological damage, disfigurement and death but the type of fgm ranges from commun...

M Taha: I read the link to the thread you posted that is supposed to tell us about you and what I learnt is that we know nothing about you at all and that you are very good at being vague. If you are not a current bohra or a former bohra this may not be the right forum for you. If you are a former b...

hsnhussain: I respectfully disagree with you. Agnostic bohras and atheist bohras are a major growing contingent of the community that remain a part of the community because of family and cultural reasons. My superficial impression is that the greatest challenge the orthodox community faces going for...

Title to site has been fixed. The author of this site is knowledgable and has put up strong arguments in favor of SMS

http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Mumbai/Talk-of-rift-among-Bohras-over-Syedna-s-successor/Article1-1044475.aspx Remember this article? At the time, dozens of people demanded Mughda be fired (see the comments below the article) and that the paper issue an apology for its slanderous article. T...

Improvements in the forum technology will likely carry the greatest weight in terms of impact. The open discussion with moderate DBs such as Zinger, very religious DBs with unflexible positions (such as Adam, murtaza2152 and badrijanab), progressive DBs (S. Insaf) , Qutbi DBs (Qutbi_Londoner) , gay ...

Im very confused about the nass situation. Neither camp has a legally credible argument for nass. Typically, the time after a stroke is the worst for incapacitation and over time, the person improves not the other way around. The idea that immediately after a major stroke, SMB sat up and declared nu...

I think a degree of disillusionment is setting in with many people, most people are keeping quiet because as a community we do not generally make waves and the therefore the majority appear to be settling with SMS.

The website's title and email is misleading. It has the answers followers of SMS will want.

This site is misleading and the use of a wrong title is a shallow tactic to use. The points being made maybe well thought through and potentially correct or incorrect but the misleading title of the website and the subtitle is firmly intended to lead those that are interested in supporting Syedna Qu...

Well with all due respect AZ, this is just your opinion. Before DBL started responding to Anajmi's posts (which even I struggle to understand), I was finding some of the things DBL had to say of interest. I think a conversation between Humanbeing and DBL would be particularly interesting because Hum...

I agree with Grayson that it would be wrong to dismiss db Londoner as I think his opinion is reflective of several people in the community that I know. DB Londoner was sidetracked by anti Shia postings that detracted his focus away from some valuable points that he had to make about the community an...

Our DB community probably has the strongest record of women getting secular educations relative to other equivalent communities. I think this should be a matter of pride in our community and something we build on.

I agree with Zinger on his thoughts. This is also my current view of Aqua Moula. That he is a human being, capable of errors like all other humans but a man of very high piousness, high moral character and a man immensely well suited to providing religious guidance to the dawoodi bohra community. Th...

Im disappointed by what I heard on that audio.

fyi: Simon Mills, mitigating for Master, said that his client "had been shunned by members of his community."

Well I cant argue with you on the fact that in retrospect these were bad decisions.

Media asking muslims to condemn terrorists that have nothing to do with them and you asking DBs to condemn a criminal that has nothing to do with them is exactly the same sort of discrimination. Saying nothing is not being an apologist. Saying nothing happens when it has nothing to do with DBs. Mast...

In America, muslims are often asked by the media to apologize for the actions of terrorists. My gut response to this is generally to think that why should muslims apologize or be mandated to come out and criticize these terrorists when they have nothing to do with them, are not represented by them a...

There is no question in my mind that some of the money given in wajebaat is skimmed including the purported 10% that goes to Amils but I still contend that a significant proportion of the funds are used to benefit jamaats and jamaat members. Example that I know of: A jamaat wanted to buy new land to...

Id like to have a shot at these questions: I m touched with Adam’s concern on Dawoodi Bohra Issues. I agree with him and we shall now focus on issue concerning Dawoodi Bohras. Let start then.. According the DB belief, if a bohra does not pay sabeel and wajebaat (other taxes except zakat) can they qu...

Im pleased that you are not anti-shia but you have stated clearly in a previous post that the raison d'etre for your presence on this board is to convert people to the sunni faith. In this respect, you are clearly making very little to no progress.

"I am a bohra." Based on your stated beliefs, this is clearly untrue.

Its also unclear to me why a sunni would come to a website dedicated to "progressing" bohras. Its apparent that there is a vast opportunity for progression in the sunni faith too including the tolerance of extremist view-points that damage the reputation of all muslims including the largel...

Grayson is correct about the use of "moulana" in reciting panjatan na nam. We certainly did the same thing growing up.

Most bohras (95%+ in the west) wear regular clothes normally and rida/topi only at masjid and appropriate community focused occasions and are active participants/believers in the community. Same people in a different setting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXNU_ZYxDZY The point is that the DB commun...

http://www.bu.edu/cgs/2010/05/14/university-overseer-shamim-dahod-cgs%E2%80%9976-cas%E2%80%9978-med%E2%80%9987-and-her-husband-ashraf-pledged-19-5-million-to-the-school-of-medicine/ An example of a prominent and active dawoodi bohra that has both accomplished much and contributed much back to societ...

Grayson, Its my hope that you will continue contributing on this forum. I'm more a casual reader than a contributor but I find your thoughts strongly aligned with my own. I too am in the fold and I too have my doubts about much of what happens in our community and the lack of transparency with finan...