Cairo Declaration on Human Rights by Gary Conwell

2014-03-11 23:48:12 UTC

Who stands to gain?

2014-03-13 23:08:52 UTC

The wording of the text is very patriarchal. It suggest a bias towards males.

- Isalmic Men

- Muslim Citizens

- People in religious office

- People with a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam

Who stands to lose?

2014-03-13 23:08:55 UTC

- Islamic men and women with a modernist view on the world

- Other religious people in these states (ie. Christian, Buddhist etc)

- Muslims (or anybody else) who view the western society as a model way of living

- People who are uneducated

What are the human rights issues?

2014-03-13 23:09:04 UTC

- Failure to acknowledge the equality of gender in Islamic society - or at least there is an underlying bias to men.

- Lack of religious pluralism and freedom of speech and right to association.

- There is competing ideals in the document. e.g. the underlying premise of the primacy of Islam and the ideal that all are equal before the law (article 6)

- All people who are non-religious or irreligious are excluded in a broad definition of humanity

What are the unanswered questions/issues?

2014-03-13 23:09:15 UTC

What rights do non-Muslims/womenhave in Arab states given the conflicts in the document and the underlying premise that Islam is superior to other ideologies in the world?

How do Muslims who emigrate from Arab states to Western countries adjust to and understand the way of life?

2014-03-13 23:10:40 UTC

2014-03-13 23:12:54 UTC