Not Possible to Modernize Islam
February 27, 2007
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,468828,00.html
Human rights activists have formed a "Central Council of Ex-Muslims in Germany" tohelp women renounce the Islamic faith if they feel oppressed by its laws. Its Iranian-bornfounder Mina Ahadi, under police protection after receiving death threats, talks to DER SPIEGEL about its goals.Mina Ahadi has received death threats after founding the group.An Iranian human rights activist living in Germany has formed a "Central Council of ex-Muslims in Germany" with 40 others and has received anonymous death threats after declaring she wants to help people to leave the religion if they so desire.Iranian-born Mina Ahadi, 50, said she set up the group to highlight the difficulties of renouncing the Islamic faith which she believes to be misogynist. She wants the group toform a counterweight to Muslim organisations that she says don't adequately representGermany's secular-minded Muslim immigrants.Ahadi has been put under police protection in recent days. Renouncing Islam can carrythe death penalty in a number of countries including Iran, Saudi-Arabia, Afghanistan,Pakistan, Sudan and Mauritania. In other countries people who turn their backs on thefaith aren't punished by courts, but they are often ostracized by family and friends. It's adifficult subject among Muslim communities in Europe too.Ahadi said she wants the new organization to help women who feel oppressed by therules of the faith to find a way out. The Council will hold a news conference in Berlin onWednesday to outline its goals.DER SPIEGEL spoke to Ahadi.
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