In a lengthy post, Gates of Vienna posts recommendations on women’s rights and Sharia law:
- Participating States must point out to all religious groups that men and women enjoy quality before the law. In addition, participating states should punish violations according to the law.
- Participating states should particularly focus on the following:
1. Inheritance laws must be enforced equally for men and women. 2. Testimony from a woman must be considered equal to that of a man. 3. Corporal punishments inflicted from men on women must be strictly prohibited and, if prohibited by law, the law must be enforced and perpetrator be brought to justice.
- The practice of polygamy must be punished under the law.
- In order to make gender equality a reality, it is necessary that participating states establish the basic conditions for a minimum of economic security.
Why should these recommendations generate such controversy?
Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff of Pax Europa was accused of hate speech for having made this statement:
We have to decide if we’re going to perish under a self-inflicted anvil of political correctness, or whether we believe in equal rights for all.
It’s not hate speech, it’s human rights.