Madrid: A Muslim woman wants feminist re-reading of sacred text

Last week, Madrid was chosen as a fulcrum of meeting point for the Muslim women. Some twelve women from diverse backgrounds and from various countries collected to talk about ‘Islamic Women and their Civil Right’. Spain’s Institute of Women and Movement for Peace planned for the discussion. Asma Lambaret, a spokesperson from Morocco said that re-reading of the revered text should be carried forward but with a feminist’s viewpoint. She offered that there exists a great difference between what the text actually is and what the interpreters construe it. She further said, ‘For fourteen centuries a machismo reading has been imposed on society. On the death of the Prophet, men did not relay his message of the liberation of women. They went back to their old ways and no more was heard of the rights women should have’.