Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-03-12-Speech-2-142"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-03-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Women and fundamentalism2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020312.7.2-142"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-03-12-Speech-2-1432
lpv:speaker	lp:Geneviève Fraisse2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Indépendant (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2002-09-08)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Estonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I think we are caught between a desire for clarity and the difficult nature of this subject. I am slightly uncomfortable with this report. I accept that it took a certain amount of courage to draw up this report, but I am not convinced that it had to be so ambiguous. The line between religion and fundamentalism does not seem to me to be clearly drawn. This certainly does not mean that fundamentalism is bad and religion good, but rather that we must not confuse religion with fundamentalism and vice versa. Speaking, not as a politician, but as a researcher who has studied the history of women, I know one thing: there is not a single religion that has not created a hierarchy between the sexes. This is a historical fact that cannot be denied. All those of us who want to oppose fundamentalism in any shape or form must face up to this historical fact without being hypocritical about it. In every religion, there is a hierarchy between the sexes. Some do promote certain women’s rights, but few create and promote gender equality. That does not exist. We just have to put up with it, as it were. Personally, I am in favour of separating church and State, as you can tell from my speech. My words are addressed to all followers of religion. Fundamentalist or not, you are well aware that no religion has produced a theory on equality between men and women. This report makes me uncomfortable as there are some things that are not right. Recital T, for example, states that fundamentalism and feminism can be reconciled. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is possible to cobble together or come up with strategies for emancipation despite fundamentalism, as certain Iranian women have proved to us, but that does not make it true in all cases. Similarly, when I read in Article 31 that religious leaders must be asked to grant women the right to control their own bodies, I must protest. They will not do it! They are fighting against contraception and abortion. We know it, fundamentalism or not. Let us think seriously and clearly about all that. We will undoubtedly disagree, but each person’s position will be clear to us all."@en1

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