01 August 2009

Jewish and Islamic repression of women continues unabated

Dear Miriam Saleh, Thank you so much for being brave enough to speak about what has happened to you. Too often, religious communities do not speak about their internal dealings, which can sometimes lead to great injustices going unnoticed.

The appallingly anti-women bias held in some sections of the Jewish community is almost as disturbing as the creeping encroachment of Sharia law into this country, and I therefore vehemently object to rulings made by these Jewish courts. [Letters From A Tory] Read more