(CNSNews.com) – As the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women tries to finalize a document on violence against women by the end of its two-week session Friday,Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is leading a pushback by governments that accuse it of trying to undermine religious or cultural values.
Egypt’s ruling Islamist party called on all Muslim countries to “reject and condemn” the draft document under discussion at the CSW session in New York,warning that it would undermine the family,subvert society,and “drag it to pre-Islamic ignorance.”
“This declaration,if ratified,would lead to complete disintegration of society,and would certainly be the final step in the intellectual and cultural invasion of Muslim countries,eliminating the moral specificity that helps preserve cohesion of Islamic societies,” it said in a statement.
The declaration would in fact be non-binding,although U.N. documents are typically cited in future negotiations as having set norms to be built upon.
Earlier,Libya’s grand mufti issued a fatwa (religious ruling) against the draft document.
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