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Saudi Arabia to be appointed chair of UN’s gender equality forum (www.amnesty.org)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The UN: how can we be more of a joke to the world??

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh oh, let's appoint an atheist to the board of Islamic affairs!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Even then, I think an average atheist politician would handle Islamic affairs more fairly than an average Muslim politician would handle gender equality affairs, at least in most cases.

There is no atheist book that the atheist has to follow. The Quran, on the other hand, has misogyny kind of built into it, sadly.

Edit: I feel like I should add that this misogyny problem isn't unique to Islam. The Abrahamic religions all have outdated takes on gender equality. I would have the same negative feelings about a devout Christian politician being put in charge of gender equality.