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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9647

22 April 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/equality
Discrimination towards Muslim women is due to patriarchal culture and not Koran

Brussels, 21/04/2008 (Agence Europe) - The public hearing on the situation of Muslim women and the role of the European Union has revealed that religion is not the underlying cause of human rights violations, and that the patriarchal culture is the source of discrimination towards Muslim women rather than the Koran, which is “misinterpreted”. The hearing was organised on Thursday 17 April in Brussels by the committee on women's rights and equal opportunities at the European Parliament,...

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