Word: shambayati
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...unfinished revolution for both men and women." The refrain was the emerging pattern of exclusion of women: religious opinions implying that women are too weak to be judges, objections to coeducation, the absence of any women in the new government. "We would prefer to support Islam," said Mrs. Jaleh Shambayati, a lawyer, "if the government supports us. But I don't think, even if they need women, that they want to work with...
...principles of Islam are very advanced," says Mrs. Shambayati. In the 7th century, Islamic practice established that women should not be chattel and gave them the rights to reject marriage proposals and to own property-radical ideas at the time. Yet, says Mrs. Shambayati, "although Islam gave women life 1,400 years ago,the right only to breath is not enough today...
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