Posted on 03/10/2006 6:26:43 PM PST by blam
Malaysian Muslim women 'live under apartheid'
By Sebastien Berger in Bangkok
(Filed: 11/03/2006)
Muslim women in Malaysia are being discriminated against so severely that they face a "growing form of apartheid", the daughter of the former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, a prominent social activist, has claimed.
Marina Mahathir, a Muslim herself, yesterday wrote in the Star newspaper: "Non-Muslim Malaysian women have benefited from more progressive laws over the years while the opposite has happened for Muslim women."
Polygamy is allowed for Muslims but banned for non-Muslims, she pointed out, and under Islamic family law the father is the primary guardian of the children of a marriage, while for others guardianship is shared.
"Only in Malaysia are Muslim women regressing," she wrote. "In every other Muslim country in the world, women have been gaining rights, not losing them."
Marina Mahathir's article was so sensitive that it was delayed for two days, with the paper claiming at one point that the relevant editor was "too busy" to deal with it.
All muslim women do.
"In every other Muslim country in the world, women have been gaining rights, not losing them."
Say what?
Yeah, really!
I suppose there's some twisted definition of "rights" in there somewhere. Kind of like Islam's definition of peace; "World domination by Islam."
If Muslim women want to entertain such silly notions as equal rights and social progress then they've definitely picked the wrong religion!
Bttt
"In every other Muslim country in the world, women have been gaining rights, not losing them."
Yes, and I am Spiderman.
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