A Muslim group object to the rules of a town council in Canada, calling them a "false stereotype:"
Don't stone women to death, burn them or circumcise them, immigrants wishing to live in the town of Herouxville in Quebec, Canada, have been told.But are they a "false stereotype?" Don't these things happen in Islamic countries?
The rules come in a new town council declaration on culture that Muslims have branded shocking and insulting.
Quebec is in the midst of a huge debate on integrating immigrant cultures.
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It points out that women are allowed to drive, vote, dance and own their own homes.
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However, the president of the Muslim Council of Montreal, Salam Elmenyawi, condemned the council, saying it had set back race relations decades.
He told Reuters news agency: "I was shocked and insulted to see these kinds of false stereotypes and ignorance about Islam and our religion."
Female circumcision:
Worldwide it is estimated that well over 100 million women have been subjected to it.More information here.
Supporters of the practice say it is done for cultural and religious reasons, but opponents say that not only is it potentially life-threatening - it is also an extreme form of oppression of women.
Female circumcision is mainly carried out in western and southern Asia, the Middle East and large areas of Africa.
Stoning women to death:
A leading Iranian human rights lawyer and Nobel Laureate says that the hardline Islamic regime is still using medieval punishments on its people, including the stoning of women for adultery and the torture of dissidents.Examples of those who were convicted for adultery and their punishment here.
Burning women:
In Pakistan, Muslim and Christian women are being burned in what are regularly termed "stove burnings" -- the victims' relatives say the woman was burnt accidentally while cooking.Here's a sad story of women in Afghanistan setting themselves on fire to escape their unhappy marriage.
"What has been happening in the garb of stove burning cases ... it has been used as facade and the women have been victimized, kerosene oil being thrown at them and they being put to fire and the stove being blamed, said Rawalpindi Police Superintendent Shoaib Dastgir.
Women can't drive or own property:
Women cannot go out in public without a male chaperone or without being covered from head to toe in black. They cannot drive, nor can they run a business in their own name; women must have a mahram, an agent, usually the closest male relative.It seems to me that the council knew what they were talking about. The Muslim group might want to do a Google search before they complain next time. It didn't take me long to find these articles.
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