Salam al Rabadi \ researcher and
author in international relations \ spain
If there is the desire of serious and sincere in Arab
societies for the recognition of
women's rights as one of the
fundamental rights of the human being.
this means that
we must re-examine, everything
has to do with institutions: family, religion and culture, based on the
developments of intellectual and contemporary human. Which prompts us to
try to think of those
rights ethically worthy, and entirely different from
the past.
Where we can not
recognize the many of these rights without
some of the challenges that we face whether in relation to the concept of rights itself
or in relation to some of the fundamental institutions such as family and religion.
Since many of those violations it remains its vital lies in family life. this
therefore requires a firm subjecting
each of the family and cultural thought (containing
the religious dimension) to the process
of self-criticism bold. Based on this we can approach
this reality as such dialectical :
Is the logic and morality to
justify violations of the rights
of Arab women through recourse to
cultural norms or religious
How long women will be taken as evidence of the safety of cultural integration and moral؟
What is the vital area of Arab women can overcome the system
of tyranny and swirl
control and help
her to fly in the space of
universal human equality
It seems that Arab women have developed in the womb of the cycle of social forces: opposite and conflicting
and competing. it
is the definition of closed cultures in Arab
societies is taken as the cultures retain traditional
forms of femininity which is a
violation of women's fundamental rights
are commonplace and acceptable.
There is nothing new, in case we wanted to
provide some facts and data
about the bitter reality of Arab women. of
course, as they together with
their children make up the vast majority of asylum cases in places where wars or conflicts or natural disasters. the women also
are the first victim of the prostitution trade
which extends across the entire world.
And their bodies remain
wide open for experiments
to increase birth control or to select it. as
increasing militarism so to speak or the
so-called violence against women (domestic
rape) and women in some of our communities continue to suffer from
the practices of female genital
mutilation. not to mention the economic weakness and the lack
of financial independence.
But it makes no sense and is deplorable
accept some Arab women For those appearances,
arguing that they have got used to such practices. even a lot of our women
do not know anything about the exploit.
When we try to evaluate those problematic hybrid and complex dialectic,
certainly we will face and severely brunt of
the following questions:
Why are not linked to manhood when the Arab human only
through the process of repression
and oppression of Arab women
Does anyone have the right-based on the principles of universal human
rights- the approval of the violation of his humanity
Do we need to try to devise a conclusion and implications of new beliefs from an ethical perspective humane
Do we need to try to devise a conclusion and implications of new beliefs from an ethical perspective humane
Is the vital area of the guarantor of the rights of Arab women, should stems mainly from
a humanitarian moral legal system and not
of the culture of patriarchal society
Based on the above and in a language clear and unequivocal and absolute we have to think cautiously in terms of how we use such as women
and femininity, identity and honor and
manhood.
Repression maximum real experienced by the
Arab patriarchal society is the loss
of human spiritual strength which may help
them to fly in the sky of freedom and opportunity and appropriate choices and thus stop to determine what is best for Arab women and what they should do.