"Responding to Hopelessness + Cultivating Dreams for the Future" 🌱 QLP Discussion #4

[@cathleenhothersall5226]

Cathleen Hothersall Assalamu alaikum. I watched the video of this discussion last night, and liked it. I have one issue: the Sister presiding over it mentioned an animal experiment involving baby chicks. My personal jihad is as an animal rights activist. I oppose various forms of animal exploitation and abuse, including animal experimentation, and I was told by an Imam that animal experimentation is forbidden in Islam. If someone should mention the results of an animal experiment in a discussion, it should be acknowledged that animal experimentation violates the rights of the animals used for it, and that it is forbidden in Islam.

[@womensmosque]

Salaam Cathleen, you seem to be making many assumptions and reaching conclusions that are taking our work completely out of context. Online text is not the best place to engage in discussion, which is why we have our discussion circles set up for our QLP participants. We hope you will join us at the next one! In the meantime, we encourage you to watch the experiment cited for yourself here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mIOYYoRnjLiiatU Thank you for respecting our organizational boundaries and communicating in a healthy way for our hard-working team of volunteers. May God bless and protect us all. Ameen!

[@cathleenhothersall5226]

@@womensmosque Salam Sister(s), thank you for your response. You may have a point that a back-and-forth on the comment page of a KZbin video is not the ideal forum for a debate or in-depth discussion. I'd love to discuss this with someone from Women's Mosque of America either over the phone or via Google Meet. Is someone available?