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He said it himself: Sharia law and modern standards of women's rights do not mix. He must be a real Islamophobe. "Bangladesh retreats on women's rights after clerics protest," from Agence France-Presse
DHAKA (AFP) — Bangladesh's military-backed government has backed down from a policy to ensure equal property rights to women amid angry protests by Muslim clerics that the move would override Islamic law.
The country's law minister Hasan Arif said the government "does not have any plan to enact any laws that goes against the Koran and the traditions of Prophet Mohammad," a government statement said.
Arif gave the assurance to top Islamic clerics and scholars late on Tuesday, after Islamic groups warned of nationwide protests, saying they would not tolerate any law that went against sharia, the Islamic law code.
Sharia is based on the teachings of the Koran, prescribing both religious and secular duties, from prayer to alms-giving, as well as penalties for law-breaking. There are many interpretations of the sharia.
The clerics' complaints followed a new government policy announced last week which stated women should have equal property rights.
Bangladesh, whose population is 90 percent Muslim, has a secular legal system but in matters related to inheritance and marriage Muslims follow sharia law.
Women groups have long protested the disparity and demanded equal rights.
The minister's comments came after Islamist parties and top clerics called protests across the country this Friday against what they called "laws against Islam."
Leader of the group Mufti Fazlul Haq Amini said that despite the government's assurances they would go ahead with protests until the "anti-sharia" provisions were officially dropped.
"The new government policy has mentioned there would be equal property rights for women which is directly against Islam and the holy Koran. We will not tolerate anything that goes against the sharia," he told AFP on Wednesday.
The government had shown "scant regard" for the country's Muslims, he said.
Now, straighten up and get back to scant regard for women!
Posted by Marisol at March 12, 2008 8:17 AM
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Seems this cleric "misunderstands" Islam. Karen Armstrong should go over and set him stright.
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at March 12, 2008 8:28 AM
hehe
Man, talk about a serious shoot on your own foot!
Please, save this article preciously in your HDs, because it will come handy.
at March 12, 2008 9:04 AM
oh, be sure to contact Tariq Ramadam, and ask him about the "shared values" of the West and islam, poiting out to him that, in the West, man and woman are EQUAL before the Law.
at March 12, 2008 9:07 AM
"Bangladesh, whose population is 90 percent Muslim, has a secular legal system but in matters related to inheritance and marriage Muslims follow sharia law."
Hey, isn't this what the AoC wants to do in Britain? Because it seems to be working so well in Bangladesh -- for men, at least.
Posted by: CJ at March 12, 2008 9:28 AM
"Islamic" law - sounds like an oxymoron to me.
Posted by: tanstaafl at March 12, 2008 10:36 AM
No wonder Bangladesh is such an economic powerhouse-sharia has made the place a paradise. You simply can't alter a system that works so well.
One hopes people living under the stifling madness of the Koran will one day wake up from their 14 century nightmare but it doesn't look like it will happen anytime soon.
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at March 12, 2008 11:12 AM
As we sang at the Young Socialists, when I were just a nipper:
Two, two, the worker's hands
toiling for a living Oh
One is workers unity
and ever more shall be so.
"The new government policy has mentioned there would be equal property rights for women which is directly against Islam and the holy Koran. We will not tolerate anything that goes against the sharia"
So the men get to continue to steal the wimmin's wages and houses and legacies, and keep it for themselves. And they have the cheek to slag-off the capitalists.
Always follow the money, and take careful note of where it originates, and where it ends up, and who benefits.
The menfolk of Bangladesh are invoking islam in order to steal money from their own womenfolk, and children. And they expect us to respect their manhood. I have seen plastic inflatable women with more moral integrity. In fact I have seen wooden clothes pegs with more moral integrity.
Family values, in the west, isn't usually about fleecing your family. But in islam, apparently, a man can attain glory by raiding the bairn's pocket money.
Dirty thieving b*ggers.
at March 12, 2008 4:33 PM
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