Tunisia: Banned Islamist Movement Organizes International Women's Summit

All Africa ^ | 2 March 2012 | Sana Ajmi

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Hizb Ettahrir, a legally unrecognized Islamist party, is organizing an international conference for women under the name, "Caliphate, a bright example for the rights and political role of women." The conference is to be held on March the 10th, in Carthago Hotel, in the northern suburbs of Tunis.

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Nesrine Bouthafi, a member of Hizb Ettahrir, stated that the party calls for a caliphate and is against democracy. "Democracy is a form of blasphemy that gives power to the people. However, in Islam the only source of rules is shariaa law,"

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Ahlem Belhaj, head of the Democratic Women's Association, was skeptical of the Hizb Ettahrir conference.

"I know what Hizb Ettahrir are going to talk about. They're against women working and they want women to wear the niqab," said Belhaj.

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"Democracy is a form of blasphemy that gives power to the people. However, in Islam the only source of rules is shariaa law," she stated.

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You have the tag line of the year! n/s