Posted on 05/19/2007 8:38:03 AM PDT by george76
The President of the United Nations General Assembly, Shaikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa, has issued a strong call for re-interpreting Islamic texts in order to address the social, educational and other constraints impeding the equality of women in the Middle East.
Pointing to the dynamism of Islamic Shariah to adapt to the changing situations, she called for new interpretations of the texts in the light of the new life circumstances.
"The concept of human rights is based on the notion that all human beings are born with equal and inalienable rights and fundamental freedoms," ...
"Women are subject to family laws that are Shariah-based, which strictly follow the interpretations of Islamic scholars who lived 1,000 years ago at the beginning of Islam. These interpretations are applied now without making any allowances to the very different social contexts of today,"
(Excerpt) Read more at khaleejtimes.com ...
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Shaikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa was elected president of the 61st session of the United Nations General Assembly on June 8, 2006. At the time, she was serving as Legal Adviser to the Royal Court in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
She holds an LLB from the University of Kuwait and studied international public law at the University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne. She also holds postgraduate degrees in civil private law from Alexandria University and in comparative law from Ain Shams University in Egypt.
She is only the third woman to serve as President of the United Nations General Assembly, and the first since the 24th session in 1969.
http://www.gulfnews.com/weekend/interview/10107950.html
dead chattel walking.
Muslim men like the current arrangement,and are willing to kill to keep it that way.This lady better watch out or she’s gonna end up like Theo Van Gogh....
A better idea would be to dump Islam in the dustbin of history.
"dead woman walking"
but, you are so much more eloquent!
She...
My favorite SNL character via the late Gilda Radner, wife of one of my favorite comedy actors, Gene Wilder.
FR , *bookmark*
The interpretations of the Arabic Islamic texts that now exist are contradictory, fragmented, and at complete odds with civilized behavior elsewhere in the world.
Up to now, the Koran and the fatwahs issued concerning its meaning have been largely dominated by the Sunni “scholars” who seem to find all kinds of justification for vile and criminal behavior, because it extends the authority and power as described by the “Prophet” Mohammed Ali. A fatwah is a religious opinion issued by one of these solemn students of the little glyphs and random marks on a mouldering document, which are probably as much evidence of advanced decomposition of the parchment upon which it is written, as any of the “true thoughts” of this “Prophet”. I am being purposefully insulting here.
The “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” probably has more collected wisdom, and a more complete picture of humanity, than all the works of the Koran and all the Arabic-language fatwahs ever inscribed. But then, “Rubaiyat” is not Arabic. It is Persian, from a much smarter and more civilized people. Islam was imposed on the Persians by the aggressive and barbarian Arabs. And in doing so, suppressed much of the very best of the Persian culture, some of which still seeps out and transforms Islam to a somewhat less bloodthirsty cult.
Heretics in any religion, want the religion changed to accomodate their view of what is should be.
Why don't they just get out of the religion? - Tom
If you are Muslim, you cannot simply abandon the religion.
The “enforcers” will come and kill you, as an example to anybody else with such a radical thought.
If you are Muslim, you cannot raise questions about the religion.
The “enforcers” will come and kill you, as an example to anybody else with such a radical thought.
If you are Muslim, you cannot try to find compromise with another religion.
The “enforcers” will come and kill you, as an example to anybody else with such a radical thought.
And they take WAY too much delight in the killing part.
Gilda Radner was funny.
If you believe in the religion you don't change it to suit your personal ideas of what is right and wrong.
Trying to water down Islam to Islam lite is more dangerous than just about anything a Muslim can do. - tom
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