Supporting Women's Rights
Unexpected support for the rights of women who are from Muslim backgrounds - from the Tory Party no less ...
When will the Left stand up for women's rights in the same way and stop turning a blind eye to behaviour that denies the rights of women by constantly apologising for cultural and religious behaviour .. oh I remember now - its because they hate the USA more than they love human rights ...
Sayeeda Warsi, Tory vice-chairman and adviser to Cameron, said she was struck by the way some female Muslims were held back while she was out canvassing at the last election. 'The number of women I came across who said they wanted to go to university but their parents didn't want them to, who wanted to get a job but were not allowed, who were not allowed to vote freely because the men in their family got postal votes... I came away feeling that here was an enormous resource wasted,' she said. 'This way of life is not because of the faith, it is cultural interpretations of it. David feels we can't be culturally sensitive to issues which are fundamentally wrong.'
Well said Ms. Warsi - until we start to tackle this problem we are wasting one of our precious resources - people.
Dismissing Women out of hand and treating them as second class citizens is a good way of ensuring that your culture goes backwards - suddenly 50% of the population cannot make a good and proper contribution to society - unless you believe that women only make a good and usefull contribution to society while chained to the sink and raising children ...
Funny enough this is what religious fundamentalists all over the world seem to believe ...
Tags: new cold war, david cameron, islam, womens' rights