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Italy: Female Muslims to discuss their rights on Women's Day
Milan, 26 Feb 2008 (AKI) - To commemorate International Women's Day on 8 March, Muslim women's groups in Italy have organised a meeting discuss their rights. Entitled 'A free woman in a free society', the event will be held in the northern Italian city of Milan on 9 March. The meeting has been promoted by the women's section at Milan's House of Islamic Culture.
"This is the second year that we are promoting this initiative which talks about women and in a particular way, Muslim women," the organiser of the event, Sumaya al-Barq, told Adnkronos International (AKI).
"We have taken the occasion of 8 March to meet those who are interested to know us and listen to us," she said.
Al-Barq, who is a member of the Young Muslims of Italy (GMI) said that those involved in the main round-table discussion include women from the Association of Muslim Women of Italy (ADMI), Young Muslims of Italy (GMI) and the European Forum of Muslim Women.
At the meeting, women are also expected to recount their personal experiences of integrating into Italian society.
"They are women who want to be active, constructive protagonists," said al-Barq. "We have adopted the general motto launched by the the European Forum of Muslim Women in 2008: The Role of the Woman in the Promotion of the Culture of Dialogue and of Peace in Europe"," she said.
"We want to reappropriate the rights that Islam already granted us 1,400 years ago but which some men have taken away from us," said al-Barq.
"This is not a feminist path, at least not a Western model, which in my opinion has been a failure, because it demanded the exclusion of men," she told AKI.
"Ours has to be a path for both women and men together, a path of shared growth," she said.
source: AKI Adnkronos international Italy
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