On 08/Dec/15 16:59, Ana Valdés wrote:
Women from Afghanistan Congo Bosnia and Armenia shared with us dark stories of rape forced marriages and impunity we need to strengthen the civil societies the question is how to achieve it? If the changes are made with
Certainly fixing these problems is not compatible with any fundamentalist religious system -- good luck changing that -- here in the US, the idiots on the 'christian' fundamentalist right have been and are actively tearing down what seems to be a thin veneer that represents all the gains of civil society of the last 50 years. I can't imagine that this is going to be 'easier' in the context of radical Islamic situations, or even 'normal' Islamic societies. When the religious system has already in place a rigid mapping of civil relation and law, I don't believe an 'evolution' or 'change' is possible. This would apply to all Abrahamic religions at least, and many others as well. I don't see any possibility of evolution when 'the Law' is 'the Law'. Is it possible to change such social systems? If someone says 'yes', I'd like to hear the plan...
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