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Imams’ Response to Physical and Sexual abuse of Women: Radio 4 Today Item
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There was a short item on the Radio 4 Today Programme this morning about sexual abuse in Mosques. Here is the audio snippet (6 minutes). Click through on the title if you cannot see the Audio Player.
There has been some work in this area, notably by the UK Muslim Parliament (which is a totally reformed organisation from the one that was camapigning under the leadership of Dr Kalim Siddiqui for a “separate Islamic legal space” back in the 1990s). It is now lead by Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui (no relation), and takes a co-operative rather than confrontational approach.
They were working on a project looking at Child Protection in Faith Based Environments (PDF) more than a year ago, which is worth a look.
