Criticism
SIS has drawn criticism from conservative Muslim groups because of its views. Its positions, for example, on the use of the hijab, have been challenged by The Malaysian Mufti (JAKIM). The group has also drawn the ire of PAS. Sisters in Islam's claims have been challenged by state religious bodies, some of whom have even called for bans to be imposed on them.
The Malaysian Association of Mosques Youth (MAMY) has brought a lawsuit against Sisters in Islam, alleging the misuse of the word "Islam" in the organization's name. Other groups have alleged that Sisters in Islam misinterprets religious principles.
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Famous quotes containing the word criticism:
“However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but a spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you. When the play, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he can divide.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“It is ... pathetic to observe the complete lack of imagination on the part of certain employers and men and women of the upper-income levels, equally devoid of experience, equally glib with their criticism ... directed against workers, labor leaders, and other villains and personal devils who are the objects of their dart-throwing. Who doesn’t know the wealthy woman who fulminates against the “idle” workers who just won’t get out and hunt jobs?”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)