Sakina
سكينة

Sakina.org is an organization devoted to restoring the feminine principle of tranquillity, embraced and then occluded by Muhammad, when, having struck the peace Treaty of Hudaybiyah in the name of Sakina, he then abrogated it at a time of military advantage, entered Mecca, smashed the icons of religious diversity and ordered the murder of the singer Sarah for singing songs against the patriarchal dominance of Muhammad's religion of submission to al-Llah. Sakina is a manifestation of the feminine face of divinity also expressed in the Jewish Shekhinah, which the prophet received knowledge of in Jewish folklore, before he ordered the genocide of the Jews of Medina, for fear they might betray the Muslims, beheading 700 men and taking their women into physical and sexual slavery.


Sakina Ka'aba سكينة الكعبة A virtual liberation of the original Ka'aba that preceded Islam, in which women and men of all paths are able to meet in non-violent religious tolerance. You are warmly invited to join and contribute your shrine or insights, whatever your following, as long as you can do so respecting ecosystemic democracy.


Key Readings:

  1. A Fatwa on Purdah فتوى فتوى على حجاب: Unveiling Niqab, Burqa, Chador and Hijab This article is a fatwa to unveil the veil and liberate the world from violent and lethal punishments for adultery. It is designed to be explanatory, for Muslims, and non-Muslims alike, on the status of the veil, and its more oppressive forms. If you are a Muslim, it is set out as a valid religious opinion. If you are not a Muslim, its grounds are human common sense and compassion, so that women will not have to walk one-eyed.
    Movie Song Track
  2. Islam, Jihad and Sakina الإسلام والجهاد وسكينة A Wide-ranging account of the history and politics of Islam in relation to its oppressive effect on women and men.
  3. The Fatwa and the Shulamite Earlier discussion of the issues in Islam, Jihad and Sakina with many links to oppression of and violence against women in Islam.
  4. The Story of Sakina An introduction to the history and meaning of Sakina, which is mentioned in the Quran but is a deeper and older manifestation of the feminine spirit of holy matrimony with the natural living universe.
Islamic editors in Wikipedia have censored the Sakina entry we originally authored, removing half its content - to be explicit the whole section relating sakina as peace to takiya as faking the peace.

Compare the original with the censored version:

  1. Original full Wikipedia Entry (in Wikipedia Sakina history)
  2. Sakina Ka'aba Mirror of Original
  3. Reduced Censored version currently on Wikipedia

Audio:

  1. Sakina Lament - AudioTrack in mp3 - Lyrics
  2. Talaq, Talaq, Talaq - AudioTrack in mp3 - Lyrics
  3. The Mahdi Refrain - AudioTrack in mp3 - Lyrics
  4. A Fatwa on Purdah - AudioTrack in mp3 - Lyrics

Video:

  1. Fatwa on Purdah: Unveiling Hijab, Niqab, Burqa and Chador A Video song commentary on the Fatwa on Purdah (above) with video footage illustrating many of the issues of oppression of women addressed in the text document, recorded in High Resolution Video and CD quality stereo.
  2. Sakina Lament You Tube Flash Video, a song-movie on the plight of women in conservative Islamic cultures with emphasis on the period of the Taliban in Afghanistan and after their military overthrow.
  3. Iran Israel Apocalypse YouTube flash video ser to the "Mahdi Refrain" of the apocalyptic nuclear confrontation between Iran and Israel with corresponding news clips quoting the words of the leaders of Iran and Israel, followed by a final verse in response from Chris King. Countdown to the Mahdi A historical account of Iran's involvement with anticipating the Mahdi and the relationship with its nuclear and geo-political ambitions as expressed in the statements of its current president and the reactions of others in the world including Israel.


Sakina Readings

  1. Sakina and Genocide in Islam
  2. Sakina Wikipedia (at 7 Aug 2007)
  3. The Satanic Verses
  4. Sakina and the repression of women in the Islamic world
  5. The Place of Women in Pure Islam
  6. Sakina in Sufism
  7. Readings on the Hebrew Shekhinah

Women Critics of Islam
  1. Nawal el Sadaawi
  2. Taslima Nasrin
  3. Ayan Hirsi Ali
  4. Geraldine Brooks
  5. Jan Goodwin
  6. Wiebke Walther
  7. Karen Armstrong
  8. Shala Haeri
  9. Sakina Itoo


Films Dealing with the Position of Women in Islam

  1. Submission
  2. Passion
  3. Kandahar
  4. Osama


Issues

  1. Sakina Ka'aba News Postings on Women in Islam Jul 2007 to the present
  2. Stoning Women to Death
  3. Women on Fire in Afghanistan
  4. Honour killings
  5. Child Marriages
  6. Summary Divorce and Child Divorces
  7. Hijab and smiley rape in Europe
  8. Iran: War and then the Second Coming President: Israel Is a 'Fake Regime'

Sakina Sister Sites from Sakina-Ka'aba

Several sites dealing with oppression of women in Islam and resistance to Islamist fundamentalism


Sexual Paradox
Complementarity, Reproductive Conflict and Human Emergence

A continuing trend throughout our cultural history has been for the climax diversity of sexual paradox to become undermined, or made degenerate, by patterns of male sexual domination, which lead to breakdown of the complexity and verdant instability, into ordered patterns of control, and often of repression, violence, and genocide which lead to planetary rape and exploitation and compromise the living genesis and emergence in complexity sexual paradox evokes.


Jihad-Sakina - DVD $18 U.S. inc. air postage

Jihad-Sakina is more than a movie, it is a state of mind transgressing all boundaries between the inside and outside of belief in finding the missing peace complementing the jihad of Islam and reflowering the Tree of Life in the sacred union in Jerusalem. A video MTV apocalypse set to the events of the WTC which goes to the souce of violence in Islam. The sequence of musical videos and short documentary clips evolves into an account of the unrest in Israel/Palestine, our millennial reflowering on the Mount of Olives and completes with a multi-source account of the Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004. DVD Mpeg2 (PAL-compatible).


Wisdom Earth Democracy is an organization seeking world peace and the reflowering of the planet through a deeper understanding of the feminine principle of peace and the way in which male-dominated religions have sought to repress and diminish the feminine cosmic and to repress the reproductive educational and political choices of women. It aims to do this through going into the centre of the cyclone and unveiling the nature of Sakina hidden within the world's major patriachal religions.

Wisdom Earth Democracy aims to produce research and analyses of the broad areas spanning cosmology, biodiversity and gender in relation to human social and cultural evolution with a direct view towards transformative dialogues on sustainable human futures in constructive relationship with the natural biosphere.

Implicit in the concept of WED is reunion between woman and man and between the feminine and masculine aspects of culture, spirituality and religion in the apocalypse or bridal unveiling of reality.

Many of these broad issues are cross-disciplinary and do not fit well within the confines of research journals in specific areas. The aim is thus to bring together the major subterranean unifying discussions bridging the subjective and objective aspects of existential reality and the natural and cultural realms.