Hundreds of Women Call for Islamic Governance

W460

Hundreds of Muslim women gathered near Tunis Saturday to call for the return of the caliphate, the defunct Islamic system of governance which they said was the only means of guaranteeing their rights.

The members of the Hizb ut-Tahrir party came from Islamic countries including Arab states, Indonesia and Turkey, as well as from Europe to debate the benefits of the system that disappeared nearly 90 years ago.

"This conference raises questions about the secular liberal way of life and asks whether it is a system that has succeed in securing the dignity and rights of women," chief spokeswoman Nasrin Nawaazof the British branch of the party told Agence France Presse.

"Muslim women are gathering together saying that we no longer want to live under secular liberal democratic systems," she added.

"We want a new system, we want the khalifa system that historically has been tried and has succeeded in securing the rights of women."

Nawaz said that countries such as Saudi Arabia and Iran that promote themselves as Islamic states" in reality they implement nothing but the rules of dictatorship."

Men were banned from the conference, which opened with a film castigating Western political systems and calling for "patient and determined work to re-establish the law of Islam."

Founded in 1953, Hizb ut-Tahir has members and sympathizers in more than 50 countries. It seeks the return of the caliphate, based on Islamic charia law, by political means.

The caliphate was introduced after the death of Mohammed to govern the Muslim world and held by a succession of dynasties based in different cities before the emergence of nation states.

The fifth and last caliphate held sway under the Turkish Ottomans and was abolished in 1924 by the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

Comments 2
Default-user-icon Abu huda (Guest) 12 March 2012, 07:24

May allah love em,.we are so proud

Default-user-icon Edy (Guest) 14 March 2012, 08:58

May Allah Love them, as long as they make their own free decisions. May Allah curse them if they are being brainwashed by Islamists who are using women to advance their Islamist Political hidden agenda. These women don't have a voice of their own. They are simply been told to follow Islamists Propaganda or their place is in Hell.

X-Muslim : Edy