I just came from an interesting discussion at De Balie in Amsterdam with Maurits Berger, Professor of Islam in the Contemporary West at Leiden University, holder of the Sultan of Oman Chair of Oriental Studies.
An endangered species. He means that the acceptance of shari'a law and intolerance, discrimination and sexism implicit in Islam denies those people the rights that other Westerners have. Also referring to the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights, translation here: http://tiny.cc/95c9J
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Someone please translate the question.
Not Kate's, but the one in Dutch.
Thanks.
In Anglo-saxon translation the question is: Human Rights, a threatened 'animal type'?
An endangered species. He means that the acceptance of shari'a law and intolerance, discrimination and sexism implicit in Islam denies those people the rights that other Westerners have. Also referring to the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights, translation here:
http://tiny.cc/95c9J
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