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"The report on ‘women and fundamentalism’ addresses many important issues. It is indisputably the case that women in large parts of the world are at present denied their rights and suffer oppression in the name of what we call religious, political or ideological fundamentalism.
As Christian Democrats, we vigorously condemn these human rights infringements and condemn the treatment to which women have been, and are, exposed in, for example, Afghanistan under the Taliban regime.
However, the report contains such basic shortcomings that we cannot, in the end, support it. For example, there is no definition of what is meant by fundamentalism. Even though it can more or less be inferred that what we are talking about here are violent and repressive regimes or forms of, in particular, religious belief, the report does not successfully distinguish between what, in that case, is to be viewed as fundamentalism and what are to be regarded as ordinary religion and religious institutions.
On a number of occasions, the report states that religion is something private and that religious institutions should not interfere in ‘the public and political life of the state’. We believe in a vigorous civil society, of which the churches too should be a part, and do not wish to remove any right to participate in ongoing public debate."@en1
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