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Last Updated: Wednesday, 8 March 2006, 06:29 GMT
Malaysia women 'suffer apartheid'
By Jonathan Kent
BBC News, Kuala Lumpur
Marina Mahathir says new laws will make daily life
worse for Muslim women
The daughter of Malaysia's former prime minister has launched
a scathing attack on the roles and status of Muslim women in the country.
Marina Mahathir, a prominent campaigner for women's rights,
compared the lot of women to that of black South Africans under apartheid.
She described Muslim women as second-class citizens who were
held back by discrimination.
The comments were written for her regular newspaper column.
The column, which was due to be published in Tuesday's Star
newspaper, did not appear.
'Bound and gagged'
Few comparisons could be more hurtful.
Malaysia led by Mahathir Mohamad was in the forefront of the
international campaign to end white minority rule in South Africa.
But his daughter Marina has described Muslim women in
Malaysia as subject to a form of apartheid - second-class citizens held back by
discriminatory rules that do not apply to non-Muslim women.
Her outburst appears to have been prompted by recent changes
to Malaysia's Islamic family law that makes it easier for Muslim men to take
multiple wives, to divorce them and to take a share of their property.
The women's ministry encouraged female lawmakers to vote for
the measures, saying they could be amended later.
That prompted widespread criticism and has led Miss Marina to
suggest the ministry be split in two - one to help non-Muslim women fight
discrimination, the other to keep Muslim women, in her words, bound and gagged.
However, compared to many other countries both in South East
Asia and the wider Muslim world, Malaysian women - Muslims included - play a
prominent role both in business and public life.
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