Women's rights organisation says Muslim women blocked from seeking office by male Labour cllrs (UK)

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Source: The Independent

A leading women’s charity have written a letter to Jeremy Corbyn to complain about “systematic misogyny” which saw female Muslims being blocked from seeking office by male Labour councillors.

Muslim Women’s Network UK (MWNUK) called on the Labour leader to investigate the “systematic misogyny displayed by significant numbers of Muslim male local councillors” during the selection process for new election candidates.

MWNUK’s chairwoman Shaista Gohir said the problem was not limited to Labour and said she had also written to David Cameron but “from our experience” Muslim women were more affected by Labour councillors due their concentration in certain towns and cities.

She wrote: "As this is an open secret and has been going on for decades, we can only assume that the Labour Party has been complicit at the highest levels. She accused senior Labour figures of "deliberately turning a blind eye" to the treatment of Muslim women because "votes (are) more important to them".

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/leading-womens-rights-organisation-says-muslim-women-blocked-from-seeking-office-by-male-labour-a6857096.html

[SkyDaddy7]

1. This is so SAD!

Muslim women are left all alone by Western "Liberals" & it baffles me.

[IronLionZion]

2. This kind of stuff makes my blood boil

One would think liberals and feminists would give more support for muslim and immigrant women to have equal opportunities too.

[iandhr]

4. Of course not

We must respect their culture.



To even call them out for mistreating women would be racist.

[SkyDaddy7]

8. I know!! Same here!

This is insane!

[MariaThinks]

3. it will be interesting to see if muslims can stop the bigotry within their ranks before expecting

everyone else to change their society to accommodate Islamic beliefs.

[iandhr]

5. +1

[Dawson Leery]

6. Corbyn is trash.

The far left has some strange need to coddle these reactionaries. It makes no sense. They are not an oppressed minority.

I would not support this Labour party in 2020.

[MariaThinks]

7. me neither

and ironically when islam becomes the majority the country becomes highly conservative. Are you aware of a country that has a majority muslim population and is or has ever been liberal?

[iandhr]

9. Took the words right out of my mouth.