Saturday, January 10, 2009

Women Against Shariah Website


Finally a women's organization that isn't afraid to fight against Shariah today.

A Powerful site... Support Women Against Shariah. A who's, who of women that have their own action organizations, written books, and appeared on TV and radio and others in the fight against Shariah that make up this very informative and important website.



About Us

The mission of Women Against Shariah is to prevent and outlaw the imposition of shariah law in the United States for both Muslim and American women as either a parallel legal system or a replacement for existing laws. Additionally, we hope to empower women worldwide to resist shariah.

It is our position that shariah law imposes second class status on women and is incompatible with the standards of liberal Western societies and the basic principles of human rights that include equality under the law and the protection of individual freedoms. The shariah code mandates the complete authority of men over women, including the control of their movement, education, marital options, clothing, bodies, place of residence and all other aspects of their existence. Further, it calls for the beating, punishment, and murder of women who don’t comply with shariah requirements.

In our efforts to stem the encroachment of shariah in the West, we are focusing on the following objectives:

  • Education of the American public about the inherent human rights violations and the attempt to undermine or replace U.S. law and American statutes with Islamic shariah

  • Publicizing of important issues related to sharia requirements such as honor killings, forced marriages, child marriage, polygamy, female genital mutilation, violence against women, etc.

  • Alerting policy makers and legislators to potential human rights and equal rights violations and working toward the development of possible remedies and legal actions

  • Building coalitions with like-minded organizations to develop policy initiatives and interventions for victims of shariah.

http://womenagainstshariah.blogspot.com/

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