Tunisian women given parity with men in polls

[Colpy]

Hopefully, this means the Arab Spring may turn out to be more liberal than I or many others expected.........

TUNIS — The high commission responsible for planning elections in Tunisia on July 24 has opted for parity between men and women in the lists to be presented by political parties, officials said Tuesday.
The decree, passed on Monday, also excludes as candidates anybody who served during the past 10 years in the government or the former ruling Constitutional Democratic Rally of ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who was toppled in January by a popular uprising.
The parity between women and men among potential candidates in a system of proportional representation was welcomed by all members of the high commission, including representatives of the Islamist movement Ennahda.
“This is a historic day. We have got rid of all doubts on our determination to build democracy to bring about the birth of a new regime in Tunisia. The participation of women in decision-making is a historic decision,” Mokhtar Yahyaoui, a renowned human rights activist and member of the commission, told AFP.

Tunisian women given parity with men in polls


This is very good news. Not at all what I expected, it lifts the heart.

Now, a cautionary postscript: women have, in Muslim countries, often been the driving force behind fundamentalism......and their own oppression.

We'll see.

But it is still very good news.

 

[Colpy]

Shameless bump....I'm surprised no opinions offered...

 

[Kreskin]

If I was a traditional Arab I would say, "bloody liberals, it's political correctness gone mad."

 

[gopher]

Looks like the socialist Baathists weren't all bad as it was their idea to give women the vote and to allow them to run for office.

 

[taxslave]

I truly hope they somehow come out of their feudal society in our lifetime. This is a small first step.

 

[gopher]

Baathists have been around for a long time. It was Bush and the Saudis who worked against them.

 

[Colpy]

Looks like the socialist Baathists weren't all bad as it was their idea to give women the vote and to allow them to run for office.

"socialist" Ba'athists????

ROTFLMAO!!!!!

mutually exclusive concepts.

Arab "socialism" is not socialism at all.....

 

[gopher]

''The Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party (also spelled Ba'th or Baath which means "resurrection" or "renaissance" (reddyah); Arabic: حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي‎) is a secularist political party, mixing Arab nationalist and Arab socialist interests, opposed to what it sees as "Western imperialism" and calling for the "renaissance" or "resurrection" of the Arab World and its unity in one united state.[1] Its motto — "Unity, Liberty, Socialism" (wahda, hurriya, ishtirakiya) — refers to Arab unity, freedom from non-Arab control and interference.''


--- wiki

you were saying ....

 

[Colpy]

''The Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party (also spelled Ba'th or Baath which means "resurrection" or "renaissance" (reddyah); Arabic: حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي‎) is a secularist political party, mixing Arab nationalist and Arab socialist interests, opposed to what it sees as "Western imperialism" and calling for the "renaissance" or "resurrection" of the Arab World and its unity in one united state.[1] Its motto — "Unity, Liberty, Socialism" (wahda, hurriya, ishtirakiya) — refers to Arab unity, freedom from non-Arab control and interference.''


--- wiki

you were saying ....

I was saying Arab socialism, with its heavy emphasis on pan-Arab nationalism, is much closer to fascism than socialism......no matter what they call it.

 

[gopher]

fascism, socialism, Republicanism = same sh!t, different azzes

 

[Corduroy]

Before the revolution Tunisia was in some ways secularized and women had comparatively better representation in its sham legislature than other Arab countries. It's not as momentous a step as it seems, though the more women participating in government the better I say. Maybe women are more supportive of religious oppression but they're in government and are unlikely to support their own political oppression.

 

[Colpy]

fascism, socialism, Republicanism = same sh!t, different azzes

Tell it to Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt.

 

[Corduroy]

Or maybe tell it to another thread? I don't see why you took the bait on that one. You made this thread about Tunisia, right?

 

[gopher]

Colpy is the one who said Baathism wasn't socialist when history shows the co-relation.

 

[damngrumpy]

Arab Socialism is part of the civil life in Syrai, and Iraq before W stepped in. The western world
does not want the Baath Party to succeed because it would interfere with the oil power base in
region. I think the only hope for creating a society is through something like socialism because
at the moment only Conservatism is allowed.

 

[Colpy]

Arab Socialism is part of the civil life in Syrai, and Iraq before W stepped in. The western world
does not want the Baath Party to succeed because it would interfere with the oil power base in
region. I think the only hope for creating a society is through something like socialism because
at the moment only Conservatism is allowed.

Now that is silly.

We already have "something like socialism" with universal healthcare and a social safety net. The LAST thing we need is more than that.

BTW, Ba'athist parties are notoriously intolerant and prone to mass murder.

Not my kind of people.

Or maybe tell it to another thread? I don't see why you took the bait on that one. You made this thread about Tunisia, right?

Yes, but we do get distracted.....and I am notoriously unable to resist bait.

 

[gopher]

'' Ba'athist parties are notoriously intolerant and prone to mass murder.''

Turkey and Indonesia are Muslim but not Baathist and they killed more Muslims than anyone else.