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January 12, 2007

Shake It

...UP.

...“Practicing Muslims who live by the word of the Koran and the Koranic books — of course they limit their own opportunities,” she said. “A lot of people who live like me, or practicing Muslims who respect that religion is a private matter, have had it easier than those who think religion should be part of a larger society.

Ms. Subuni said many say, “ ‘I need to pray five times a day because my religion says so.’ ” But she added: “Which employer will accept that? Or, ‘My child shouldn’t take part in music class, because my religion questions this.’ O.K., then we have a problem.”

AS the minister for gender equality, she is particularly troubled at evidence that young Muslim girls are wearing the veil. “I would like to know what is happening in our society that makes families want to put a veil” on our children, she said. “Maybe we don’t need a law. Maybe we need something else so that people don’t feel so insecure that they need to manifest their religion by using their children.”

Ms. Sabuni would be SWEDEN's recently appointed minister for integration and gender equality and "the daughter of a frequently jailed opposition politician in Congo, then Zaire, who fled to Sweden as a political refugee." You know...an immigrant.

And Swedish Muslim groups have a problem with her.

Go figure.

Posted by tree hugging sister at January 12, 2007 11:02 PM

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Posted by: Gunslinger at January 13, 2007 01:21 AM