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:
“The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men’s genius. By virtue of style, criticism can itself become literature. But usually this occurs only when the writer is acting as critic of his own work or as outrider to his own poetics, when the criticism of Coleridge is work in progress or that of T.S. Eliot propaganda.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)
“When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance. He becomes a source of blessings rather than wages. Criticism is sacrilege, doubt is heresy.”
—Ben Hecht (1893–1964)
“Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality; both as analysis and as synthesis, it was a criticism of appearance. Surrealism transmuted the object, and suddenly a canvas became an apparition: a new figuration, a real transfiguration.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)