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| Syrian foreign minister vows to back women’s rights after outcry |
| 2024-12-30 |
| [IsraelTimes] Syria’s new Foreign Minister Assaad al-Shibani is seeking to calm an outcry sparked by comments from the country’s newly appointed head of women’s affairs, who said that women should “not go beyond the priorities of their God-given nature,” and should know “their educational role in the family.” Posting on X, Shibani says that authorities will “stand by” women and “fully support their rights.” “We believe in the active role of women within society, and we have confidence in their capacities,” he says, adding that “Syrian women fought long years for a free homeland that preserves their dignity and status.” ”You have the right to wear a hijab. You have the right to walk three steps behind your husband and obey him. You have the right to speak out in support of Syria’s new rulers. You have the right to speak out against the godless Assad government and against the Shiite heretics in Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon. You have the right to train your sons to be jihadis and your daughters to marry and give birth to jihadis and you have the right to be thoroughly educated in the HTS interpretation of Sunna and Hadith so that you can teach your children to be rightly guided by it. Really, you are practically drowning in rights and governmental support of those rights, O Syrian women! Let us together rejoice that it is so!” Speaking to Turkey’s state-run TRT broadcaster, Aisha al-Dibs, the only woman so far in Syria’s transitional government, said only feminist organizations that “support the model that we are going to build” would be welcome in Syria, adding “I am not going to open the path for those who don’t agree with my thinking.”“Why adopt a lay or civil model? We want to implement a model that is right for Syrian society, and Syrian women will make it happen,” she said. Dibs’s remarks have prompted outrage among some on social media. Actress Aliaa Saeid says on social network X that “we were imprisoned so that we could [obtain the right] to express our opinion.” “We have been displaced, our homes have been destroyed, so that in the end you come and tell us what’s allowed and what’s not?” she adds. |
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