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Women's rights in Mali

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    Women's rights in Mali

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8223966.stm

    Law granting women more rights is rejected. I love this bit though:

    Hadja Safiatou Dembele, president of the National Union of Muslim Women's Associations (NUMWA), says the Koran is clear that a wife has the obligation to listen to her husband.

    "A man must protect his wife. A wife must obey her husband," she says.

    "It's a tiny minority of woman here who want this new law; the intellectuals. The poor and illiterate women of this country, the real Muslims, are against it."
    Which implies that real Muslim women are poor and illiterate.
    Nice one Dembele.
    Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

    #2
    Quite.
    bloggoth

    If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
    John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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      #3
      Definitely!
      "If you can read this, thank a teacher....and since it's in English, thank a soldier"

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        #4
        Indeed.

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          #5
          For sure.
          Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

          C.S. Lewis

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            #6
            Rather!

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              #7
              Indupidly
              A bad workman blames his fools

              EDIT: *tools

              stupid keyboard.

              http://twitter.com/TheAnonTechGuy

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                #8
                I am quite comfortable with wimmen having rights:




                ::: just as long as my shirt is ironed and the housework is done!!!
                "If you can read this, thank a teacher....and since it's in English, thank a soldier"

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by daviejones View Post
                  I am quite comfortable with wimmen having rights:
                  Starting with: you have the right to remain silent. Please.
                  Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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                    #10
                    It all started going downhill with women given voting rights
                    <ducks for cover>

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