Before the Government or Parliament moves to ban gender segregation in public places such as town halls, they should first consult with Muslim women and ask them for their views on the issue.
Source/Credit: The Independent
By Farzana Yousuf | January 25, 2015
Britain is home to thousands of loyal, well-integrated Ahmadi Muslim women. They are professionals and homemakers who speak good English and contribute fully to the development and progress of Britain. Ahmadi Muslim women condemn extremism and terrorism in all its forms.
Any free and democratic society must support a woman’s freedom to make choices about how she chooses to live. Before the Government or Parliament moves to ban gender segregation in public places such as town halls, they should first consult with Muslim women and ask them for their views on the issue.
Policy-makers should take a proper sample of Muslim women and ask them directly if they prefer sitting sometimes in segregated meetings or if they would prefer joint meetings. The comfort and ease of women themselves should be ascertained rather than prescribed by government. That should be the approach of a Britain which champions the rights of women and their freedom of personal choice.
Farzana Yousuf
National Secretary for Information and Communications, Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s Association (UK) London SW18
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