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Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s largest Islamist movement, criticized a United Nations report that aimed to end violence against women and girls, saying it violates principles of Islamic law.
The Brotherhood, the movement from which Egypt’s President Mohamed Mursi hails, sent a 10-point critique of a document drafted at a meeting of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York. The text is due to be formally adopted when the session ends tomorrow.
Egyptians wave a flag bearing the portrait of Queen Nefertiti of Egypt, the wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten during the 14th century B.C, as they march in Cairo to mark International Women's Day on March 8. Photographer: Mahmud Khaled/AFP/Getty Images
“The Muslim Brotherhood calls on leaders of Islamic countries, their foreign ministers and representatives in the United Nations to reject and condemn this document,” the group saidstatement. It urged the UN “to rise up to the high morals and principles of family relations prescribed by Islam.”
The growing power of the Brotherhood since the overthrow ofHosni Mubarak in 2011 has raised concerns Egypt may adopt religiously motivated laws that would curtail freedoms, especially for women and Christians. Persistent protests against Mursi and the Brotherhood have frequently erupted into violence, eroding political stability and hopes of reviving an economy suffering from the flight of tourists and investors.
While the Brotherhood’s response to the UN document “doesn’t represent a shift in policy” from the Mubarak era, “it will still hurt Egypt’s image,” said Karim El Assir, an analyst at the Signet Institute, a research center in Cairo.
‘Deceptive’ Theme
“It backs up fears that the Muslim Brotherhood is more conservative and more Islamist, which is also associated with more conservative values on women’s rights,” El Assir said.
The primary theme of the commission’s 57th session was the “elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls.”
The Brotherhood described the theme of the conference as “deceptive,” saying it violated Islamic principles. The UN document seeks to destroy the family institution, which Egypt’s constitution confirmed as the basis of society, the group said.
Among the 10 points the Brotherhood said it opposed were resolutions to ensure women’s rights to complain of marital rape; promote equal inheritance rights and equal rights between men and women within the family; and allow Muslim women to marry non-Muslims. It also criticized recommendations to abolish the need for male permission for travel, work or use contraception.
