An Alarming statement by Muslimbrotherhood in Eygpt on CEDAW calling it against Shariat principles

As we know UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)  convened its 57 session in early March in New York. Tens of women and NGOs from around the world attended the sessions and held various venues to celebrate  women's achievements and also to fight for those women who are deprived of equal rights in their home countries. As the final documents were being discussed, Muslimbrotherhood which came to power after the fall of Hossni Mubark issued a statement against the UN Convention on Elimination of Violence Against Women and called the document non-Islamic.  A number of women organisations and individuals have urged the international community to raise their voices against such alarming stance. Here is the complete version of the statment and emails of the organisations your objections should be sent to.

Muslim Brotherhood Statement (translation from Arabic):

In the name of God the Merciful

Statement of the Muslim Brotherhood about The Convention on

the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

(CEDAW) which violates all principles of the Islamic Sharia

and the Islamic community

The Commission on the Status of Women holds a conference in

the period from the 4th to the 15th of March 2013 to approve

a

document titled (The Convention on the Elimination of All

Forms of Discrimination Against Women), a deceptive headline

that includes items collide with the principles of Islam and

its basic unanimous elements of Quran and Sunnah, destroy

Islamic ethics, and seek to demolish the institution of the

family, which the Egyptian constitution confirmed it is the

building block of the society, and hence achieve the

dismantling of the community, and end to the last step of the

intellectual and cultural invasion, and eliminate the privacy

that preserve elements of Islamic societies and its cohesion.

It is enough to give a closer reading at these items to

realize what is meant to us, and these items are:

1. Grant girls their complete sexual freedom, as well as the

freedom to choose their sex and the freedom to choose their

sex

partners (i.e., choose to have a normal sexual relationship or

atypical) with rising the age of marriage.

2. Provide contraception for adolescent girls and train them

on

how to use it with the legalization of abortion to abort

undesirable pregnancy under the name of sexual and

reproduction

rights.

3. Equality between an adulterous and a wife, and equality

between adultery children (outside of marriage children) and

legitimate sons in all rights.

4. Granting homosexuals all their rights, protection and

respect, and grant protection for women in prostitution.

5. Grant wives all the right to sue their husbands with

charges

of rape or harassment, and the competent authorities should

grant same penalties similar to raping or harassing a

stranger.

6. Equality in inheritance.

7. Replace guardianship with partnership, and fully share the

roles within the family between men and women such as:

spending, child care, home affairs.

8. Equal access to the marriage legislations such as: Stop

polygamy, Iddah, mandate, and the dowry, and stop obligatory

spending of man on the family, and to allow Muslim women to

marry a non-Muslim and others.

9. Withdraw the authority of divorce from husbands and

authorize it to judiciary and share property after divorce.

10. Cancel the obligatory authorization of the husband in:

travel, work or going out or use contraception.

These are the destructive means of the institution of the

family and community that calls for the return for the first

ignorance.

The Muslim Brotherhood call upon rulers of Islamic countries

and Foreign Ministers and their representatives in the United

Nations to reject this document, and also we invite this

organization to live up to the level of the pure family

relations prescribed by Islam.

Also Muslim Brotherhood calls al-Azhar to act according to

its

leading role and to condemn this document and declare the

position of Islam towards its articles, as it is the

reference

for Muslims.

As well we call other Islamic groups and associations to take

a decisive stand against this document and the like.

We also call for women's organizations to adhere to their

religion and the morals of their communities and the elements

of our social life and not to be seduced by the deceptive,

misleading and destructive calls for urbanization.

The Muslim Brotherhood

Cairo: 13 March 2013

Dear Friends,

Most of you must have woken up to the statement the Muslim

Brotherhood issued (see translation below and attached) which

takes a stance against CEDAW, and blatantly delegitimizes the

language used in the not-yet-finalized CSW statement on the

grounds of religion and cultural relativism!

We still have a chance to counter these conservative
"traditional" forces! Please help us gather momentum around
two
very solid statements that have been circulating in the past
few days, and which WLUML and partners have already endorsed.

Please write to [email protected] to sign:

1.       STATEMENT OF FEMINIST AND WOMEN'S ORGANISATIONS ON

THE

VERY ALARMING TRENDS IN THE NEGOTIATIONS OF OUTCOME DOCUMENT

OF

THE 57TH SESSION OF THE UN COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN

drafted by Center for Women's Global Leadership

(CWGL)International Women's Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific

(IWRAW Asia Pacific)

Please write to [email protected] to sign:

2.        A Call from the Arab Caucus at the 57th Commission

on

the Status of Women

In solidarity,

Women Living Under Muslim Laws

International Coordination Office

Unit 23, 25-27 Bickerton Road, London N19 5JT, United Kingdom

Tel:+44 (0)207 263 0285 - Fax:+44 (0)207 561 9882

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