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The Next Great Movement: Muslim Women's Liberation by Phyllis Chesler Breitbart June 10, 2014 http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1316/the-next-great-movement-muslim-women-liberation Print Send RSS Share: Be the first of your friends to like this. July 18-19, 2014, a group of Muslim women, led by attorney Nadia Shahram, will hold a convention in Seneca Falls to issue a "Declaration of the Equalities for Muslim Women." Symbolically and historically, this is an important event, one that may only be possible in the West. Many Muslim feminists know that I stand with them, and the Seneca Falls feminists have honored me by asking me to participate in a panel. To my great regret, I will be out of the country at that time but have offered to send a statement to be read aloud. In 1776, in bold and stirring words, fifty-six men signed the American Declaration of Independence. I was not there--but because of this document, I have not grown up in a colony of the British Commonwealth, and I pay no taxes to the queen. In 1848, American feminists launched their Declaration of Sentiments in Seneca Falls. I was not there, either. However, my life as an American woman has been immeasurably improved by their work. Sixty-eight women and thirty-two men were signatories. » CONTINUE READING Related Topics:  Gender, Islamic Gender & Religious Apartheid
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