Cover those legs, ladies, if you're in Denver

Imam calls for more modesty among moderns

DENVER (RWN) - The world is spinning out of control, said Imam Hamid, the chief spiritual authority in Denver, and the best evidence of that is a woman's ankle.

That's why he's issued a fatwa proclaiming that any woman showing any skin below her knee is in violation of Islamic law - and even extends the fatwa to the so-called "modern movement."

"They are the worst offenders, if you want to know the truth," Hamid said yesterday. "These women - they call themselves 'moderns,' as if that excepts them from Islamic practices - parade around showing their legs, their calves, their bare arms. Even the prayer shawl is now just a small piece of fabric worn as a fashion accessory. It was small nibble like this that eventually devoured the old regime in sin. We must stop it. And we will stop it in Denver."

Hamid has instructed the Black Robes, the nation's religious police, to cite and take custody of any woman showing skin beneath her knees.

"A good woman should be fully clothed," the imam said, "but we will fight that battle at a different time."

The move caused immediate controversy and outcry among civil rights groups.

"The Black Robes have no authority over any citizen of this republic save the fundamentalists who choose to place themselves under the Black Robes," said Rita Cobb, the president of the Colorado chapter of the Islamic Women Civil Rights Project, and a modern. "For the imam to do this is unfair and also is not reflective of the nature of this country. He forgets that the conservatives and fundamentalists make up only a fraction of this nation, and that much of the good work of Allah is being done by secular Muslims who believe as strongly in personal freedom as they do in The Word."

The imam's fatwa may not be coincidental.

Denver is one of the strongholds of conservative and fundamentalist thought in the nation and Hamid is seen as an imam who floats trial balloons for other fundamentalist clerics in less tolerant cities.

A similar fatwa against secular advances, issued in 2016 by Derek Ali, the head of the Black Robes, resulted in San Francisco being cleansed of homosexuals in a summer-long bloody campaign. After the grisly success of that fatwa, Ali pressed President-for-Life Kingsley to cleanse all of the Islamic States of homosexuals, which Kingsley refused to, causing a rift between the president and the chief mullah of the Black Robes.

"I am not advocating violence," Hamid said about his recent footwear fatwa. "I am just saying that we must keep the influences of sin as far from us as possible. Let us start by covering legs."

Denver Police Chief Gabir Rexall, himself a modern Muslim, said that his officers would not enforce the imam's orders.

"That's for the religious police to do," he said. "Now, if one of my officers should catch a Black Robe breaking the civil law, we will most definitely enforce the civil law."


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