Islam feminists urge gender jihad

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</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=416><!-- S BO --><!-- S IBYL --><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=416 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=bottom>By Danny Wood
BBC News, Madrid
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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!-- E IIMA --><!-- S SF -->Organisers of the first international congress on Islamic feminism are calling for a "gender jihad".

Organiser Abdennur Prado Pavon says the struggle for gender equality in Islamic countries involves refuting chauvinist interpretations of Muslim teachings.

The congress is being held in Spain, organisers say, because they want their message to reach the growing number of Muslim women in Europe.

Around 300 delegates are looking at women's rights in the Islamic world. <!-- E SF -->

Mr Prado, of the Catalan Islamic board, believes a common misconception in the West is that women's liberation is not possible in Muslim societies.

Activists representing the Islamic feminist movement are in Barcelona to counter that view and discuss ways of achieving female equality in an Islamic context.

Collaboration

Among the delegates is the Pakistani feminist Riffat Hassan, regarded as one of the pioneers of Islamic feminist theology.

Also here are representatives from the international association, Islamic Feminism. Islamic Feminism argues that the inferior legal and social status of women in Muslim countries is a result of misogynistic distortions of the teachings in the Koran. Organisers say they want more collaboration with western feminists but say non-Muslim feminists need to challenge their anti-Islamic stereotypes.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4384512.stm

[ABCMan]

Islamic feminists

well that isnt two words you'd ever expect to see in the same sentance

Around 300 delegates are looking at women's rights in the Islamic world.

What rights?

[copey123]

Around 300 delegates are looking FOR women's rights in the Islamic world.

Fixed.

[Cenus_]

A step in the right direction though (even if it is a fairly small and inconsequential one)

[mladen]

I wonder if they will ever win the right to stop wearing ninja suits

[rudey]

well that isnt two words you'd ever expect to see in the same sentance




What rights?

got nothing to do with islamic teachings blame the teachers simple