The 2003 meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, a world-wide organization of 57 Muslim states, took place in Malaysia. The long-time Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad opened the conference with a speech in which he asserted, among other things, that "today the Jews rule this world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them." To help put this analysis in historical context, he added that the Jews "invented and successfully promoted Socialism, Communism, human rights and democracy so that persecuting them would appear to be wrong, so they may enjoy equal rights with others."Who're the proxy?
1997: Mahathir overcame opposition from the Malaysian Parliament and Islamic groups to bring an Israeli cricket team to Malaysia in 1997. He also sponsors Israeli students on two-week study tours to Malaysia "because we believe there should be understanding between Muslims and Jews." (Los Angeles Times, April 24, 1999).
A SPECIAL MOMENT TOGETHER: Three VIP daughters (from left) Nori Abdullah, Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir and Hanis Tun Hussein, being at the International Consultation on Trends in Family Law Reform in Islamic Countries in Kuala Lumpur gave them the opportunity to share a common platform. And Sisters in Islam executive director Zainah Anwar, standing, could not be more pleased.
Muslim family laws that govern the relationships between men and women based on a framework of the superior husband and the subordinate wife are unsustainable in the twenty-first century. Malaysia must also institute legal reform if it is to fulfil its commitments to international human rights standards. Finally, our Islamic family laws must reflect the realities of modern life. - Sisters in Islam? or The Mangkok Berayun Team?
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