African women held prisoner by US-trained counter-revolutionary rebels now roaming Libya. The NATO-led rebels are being financed by imperialism and its agents., a photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos on Flickr.
Posted on Mon, Mar. 11, 2013
Libyan mufti criticizes UN document on women
The Associated Press
Libya's supreme religious cleric is calling on Muslim nations to reject a United Nations document on women's rights, saying that it counters Islamic law.
Mufti al-Sadiq al-Ghiryani issued a fatwa, or religious edict, against the document set to be signed by nations at the 57th session of the Commission on the Status of Women this month.
While Islamic jurisprudence prefers witnesses for a divorce, the mufti says the U.N. document insists on judicial interference.
The edict issued Monday criticizes the document's references to inheritance and its equating of men and women. Al-Ghiryani says this puts full burden on women to share equally in terms of domestic spending.
The mufti also condemns the document's wording on sexual freedoms and the rights of children born out of wedlock.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/03/11/v-print/3280013/libyan-mufti-criticizes-un-document.html#storylink=cpy
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