Shariah Law and Women’s Rights

Excerpts from the Paper

Shariah Law and Women’s Rights
Relations between the Western World and the Islamic world are often tense. This is because these cultures are very different. There are a number of areas in which the conflicts between these two cultures are particularly problematic. One of these areas is in the arena of human rights. In particular many westerners have issues with the human rights records of many Islam nations. For example, when describing the traditional view of Westeners in Islam and Human Rights Ann Mayer states,
…human rights violations perpetrated by the
Taliban and Saddam Hussein and were
officially justified by US claims to be
engaged in spreading the blessings of
democracy and human rights in the region
(Mayer 5).
There are many...

.....ffairs,
Vol.XIX
, Iss.6, Jul.2000: 105-108.
Linton,
Suzannah
, “ASEAN States, Their Reservations to Human
Rights Treaties and the Proposed ASEAN Commission on Women and Children” in Human Rights Quarterly, Vol.30, Iss.2, May 2008: 436-493.
Mayer, Ann Elizabeth, Islam and Human Rights,
Westview
Press,
Boulder, Colorado, 2007.
Moaddel
,
Mansoor
and
Karabenick
, Stuart A., “Religious
Fundamentalism Among young Muslims in Egypt and Saudi
Arabia” in Social Forces, Vol.86, Iss.4, Jun.2008: 1675-
1709.
Vahiduddin
,
Syed
, “Islam and Diversity of Religions” in HYPERLINK "http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t713424660" o "Click to go to publication home" t "_top" Islam
and Christian-Muslim Relations, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1990: 3- 11.