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Mullah Accuses Kurdish Women Activists of Blasphemy
by Saman Basharati https://www.legal-project.org/1042/mullah-accuses-kurdish-women-activists Excerpt: ERBIL, Iraqi Kurdistan: Thirteen Iraqi Kurdish women's rights activists fear for their lives and have complained to the police after a well-known Mullah has accused them of "blasphemy and demoralizing Kurdish society" in a recent controversial pamphlet. The pamphlet, entitled "A Lost Truth," was distributed by Mullah Farman Kharabaiy of Majidawa Mosque, a mosque in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. The pamphlet focuses on women's rights issues in Kurdish society, but more specifically targets Iraqi Kurdish women's rights activists and their push for gender equality in the region, an issue which has been under the spotlight in recent weeks as a hot topic of discussion in the Kurdish parliament. In his pamphlet, Kharabaiy claims that the issue has been widely used by women's rights activists "as a business to get rich." The activists targeted in the pamphlet have now lodged a complaint with the Erbil police, because they view the pamphlet as a direct "threat to their lives." Read the complete original version of this item... receive the latest by email: subscribe to the legal project's free mailing list Note: The content of external articles does not necessarily reflect the views of The Legal Project. |
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