Saturday, February 03, 2007

Does a woman need a man?

womenone.org:
A Malaysian women’s minister has said that a rising trend of unwed mothers taking hormone pills to encourage lactation to breastfeed their adopted children was worrying, reports said on Wednesday.
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“Their intentions might be good, but Islam encourages marriages and a woman will benefit much if she gets to serve her husband,” Mastura Badzis, vice president of the Malaysian Islamic Youth Movement, was quoted as saying by the Malay-language Berita Harian daily.
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While it prides itself on being progressive, many critics of the government of mainly-Muslim Malaysia say that the country’s Islamic laws - specifically the marriage laws - need to be revamped as many of them infringe on women’s rights.
Proving once again, men are redundant.

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