Kvindeundertrykkelse i islam

Muslimske kvinders vilkår er blevet en ytringsfrihedssag og Trykkefrihedsselskabet svarer derfor igen på anklagemyndighedens offensiv med en stor international konference.

Efter at anklagemyndigheden er begyndt at retsforfølge mennesker, der gør opmærksom på islams miserable kvindesyn og kvindebehandling, er kvinders status under shariaen blevet en ytringsfrihedssag.

Trykkefrihedsselskabet vil ikke finde sig i, at der er emner, som ikke må sættes under debat. Katolske præsters seksuelle overgreb rydder forsiderne, mens overgreb på kvinder og børn i andre kulturer bliver fejet ind under gulvtæppet.

Det er usselt. Derfor indbyder vi til en stor, international konference, Women under Islam, hvor indlederne vil være blandt verdens ypperste eksperter på området.

Kom og hør den syrisk-amerikanske psykiater Wafa Sultan, der under Muhammedkrisen gav de islamiske retslærde tørt på, den norske menneskeretsforkæmper Hege Storhaug, den hollandske Koranekspert, professor Hans Jansen, der er Geert Wilders’ kronvidne i retssagen mod den hollandske parlamentariker, og vores egen formand, Lars Hedegaard, bryde tabuet om kvindens status under islam.

About the speakers

Hege Storhaug
Born 1962 in Norway. A journalist, political activist and author of several books including Men størst av alt er friheten. Working for the organization Human Rights Service in Oslo, Hege Storhaug has been occupied with forced marriage and sexual mutilation of muslim girls.

Wafa Sultan
Born 1958 in Syria. A psychiatrist and author, who emigrated to the Unites States in 1989. A frequent writer on Islamic affairs Wafa gained world-wide recognition after her appearance on al-Jazeera, February 21, 2006, where she stated that we are witnessing "a battle between modernity and barbarism which Islam will lose”. Her book A God who hates was published in 2009.

Hans Jansen
Born 1942 in Holland. An islamic scholar and specialist on Koranic studies. Jansen is a former associate professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at University of Leiden and a professor of Modern Islamic Thought at the University of Utrecht. Up to 2008 he was Professor of Modern Islamic Thought at the University of Utrecht. He is a regular newspaper columnist and frequent media commentator and has been Geert Wilders’ key witness in the present trial.

Lars Hedegaard
Born 1942 in Denmark. A historian, journalist and author of several books, among others I krigens Hus, 1400 års krigen and the newly published Muhammeds girls: Vold, mord og voldtægter I Islams Hus. Hedegaard is the President of the Free Press Society in Denmark and the International Free Press Society.

Program

Moderator: Mikael Jalving

Conference Agenda
The Free Press Society
Women under Islam
Sunday, May 8, 2011, 13:00-16:30
Vartov, Farvergade 27, 1463 Copenhagen K

13:00 - 13:05
Welcome and opening remarks by Mikael Jalving

13:05 - 13:25
Hege Storhaug: Never a golden age for the girls of Muhammed

13:25 - 13:40
Q & A for HS

13:40 -14:00
Wafa Sultan: Title to appear later

14:00 - 14:15
Q & A for WS

14:15 -14:35
Hans Jansen: The historicity of Muhammad, Aisha and who knows who else

14:35 – 14:50
Q & A for HJ

14:50 - 15:30
Coffee break (Drinks will be for sale)

15:30 - 15:50
Lars Hedegaard: The role of women in Islam’s offensive strategy

15:50 - 16:05
Q & A for LH

16:05 - 16:10
Closing remarks by Mikael Jalving

Conference language: English