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Originally Posted by MuslimZ
From experience with my own MSA, certain sisters don't make good presidents.  |
certain MuslimZ's can talk to the hand.
in seriousness though, to ask religiosity of members of a purely student organization (no religious governing body, can't discriminate membership based on anything) is silly. and it is after all the *muslim* student association, not "islamic" student association.
this obviously means a lot of change for your traditional MSAs (it would mean quite a lot for mine), but for those of us still attached to old things, we really have to take a step back and ask ourselves if it would be a
bad thing if our MSAs liberalized. what would happen? events would probably include more secular and social aspects. members would be far more diverse, ranging from your scary bearded guys to the atheist who has a lot of desi muslim friends to the hijabi who wants to legalize pot (im really just pulling these out of nowhere).
really, we cant do much to unify the purposes of each individual MSA because MSA national just doesnt have the power to do so. and the msa nat'l president is one of my best friends, so i dont mean that in the slightest derogatory manner, but rather just as a statement of fact. so in my eyes, it's each to her own. and i envision a whole lot of power struggles and heartache between those "stronger" and "weaker" muslims for who gets to call MSA their own. <--it obviously won't work either way. but that's a whole other issue.