Mina hots the Haj pilgrims for four days and patients require immediate health-care in hospitals that become functional for the brief period. Link-up facility would thus remove treatment handicaps. The law previously prohibited hiding of identity thereby putting the Muslim women to the risk of being arrested. In 1994, a Muslim woman was arrested in the city of St. Paul in the northern state of Minnesota for wearing the Hijab, under the state law. However, following the Muslim lobbying of the state authorities, the Assembly amended the law allowing Muslim women to cover the faces.
Islamic jurisprudence allows options either to cover or keep open the face.
Deliberations would include prophylactic health care in the light of Islamic teachings with papers on haemophilia, abacuses, Kitabus Samum and pulse in Islamic medicine. The women were arrested last month for organizing protests against the Tanzanian government s ban against religious activities in public squares and public places. Three Muslim youths were killed in those demonstration. Islamic scholars and community leaders in North America attended a seminar on Shia-Sunni relations organised by the Islamic Organisation of the Michigan state. It was attended by 500 per sons.