Why women have a separate prayer area in Omar Mosque

Illawarra's Omar Mosque committee member Hussain Salem explains why women have a separate prayer area to men. Footage by Molly de Cseuz

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00:00We are in the ladies section. The female section is segregated in our prayer areas

00:06and the reason for that is we actually respect our women so much that we don't

00:12want our women bending over in front of us as we do in our prayer. There is three

00:17stages of movement in our prayer and that becomes us actually going down to

00:21our knees and then down onto the floor and out of respect for what we call our

00:26sisters. They have their own area and they're elevated and they get to see

00:31everything but we don't get to see it. You will see the Imam or priest down there

00:36and you will see the first row but again as I said this is a one-way mirror so no

00:42one gets to look up here and our sisters have their privacy.