A demonstration in Sulaimaniya against the book deprives women driving cars

A demonstration in Sulaimaniya against the book deprives women driving cars


 Sulaymaniyah / Range

Was launched in the city of Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdistan region, last Thursday, the march of women are leading vehicles, to protest against Saudi religious book was translated into Kurdish language includes the prohibition on women driving.
She said one of them and is also driving a car, "We stand against this Wahhabi fatwa that belittle women and against those alien to the society in Kurdistan doctrine."
We call upon the parties concerned to address such a fatwa "atypical" that harms the reputation of the region and affect society in it.
Spread libraries in the province's controversial book under the title of "fatwas senior scholars about the sanctity of women driving cars."
And the transfer of news sites in Sulaimaniyah for Dalia Kamal , one of the protest march in the posts against the fatwa, that the book , which has spread in the region is not Kurdish , but was translated into Kurdish, and sparked controversy in the Kurdish street.
The activists say posts in the march This book underestimates women, and the prohibition of women driving cars is alien to the Kurdish community.
According to a member of the committee supervising the march Khanum Rahim in an interview quoted by News Sites, "More than 150 women driver participated Bsearathn in the march of the city of Sulaimaniya , " indicating that " the march which carried the slogan (street beautiful our existence), came in response to a cleric , a Kurdish translation of a book of Islamic religious scholars in Saudi Arabia , which is forbidden for a woman driving a car , "adding that" there are attempts by some Islamist movements to marginalize the role of women, "pointing out that" negatively affects the community , especially in simple social environments. "
He confirmed Rahim "We will stand by all civil means against those attempts that aim to keep women inside the walls of the house, and we will continue to establish these events against the ideas that seek to undermine the role of women and their rights , " asking the concerned authorities to "take the necessary measures against all attempts to curtail the role of women 's actions" .
Suspended the Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs in the government of the Kurdistan region earlier on the release of the book on the prohibition of fatwas driving by women, declaring that the research and scientific data proved that more women than men committed to the laws and rules Almrorvi the whole world.
According to international organizations, Iraq continues to record proportions are high in the area of human rights violations in general and women in particular, as recorded cases of violence and killings against women fall mostly within honor crimes , which the government still "powerless" for deterrence because of the lack of guarantors of laws for women 's rights and punish of
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It is estimated that there are about a million to three million widows in Iraq, and the number is increasing in light of the continuing acts of violence targeting mostly public places and topple almost continuously since 2003 , increasing numbers of Iraqis.

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