Women who wear perfume are immoral
30/5/08
Women who wear perfume outside of the house are immoral. This is the assertion of the Diyanet, the religious affairs department of Turkey, which has published a list of “do’s and don’ts” for women in the public behaviour, and in the sexual sphere. The long list has immediately raised strong criticisms from women’s rights groups. The Diyanet’s blacklist includes, among other things, a ban on unsupervised women appearing publicly with men, and the obligation to be always “adequately covered”. An institution of the Turkish government, the Diyanet is the highest Islamic religious authority of the nation, but it has no legal power; its various responsibilities include that of appointing imams. Although the AKP, the moderate Islamic party of prime minister Erdogan, does not have direct control over it, the initiative is raising concerns among the supporters of the secularist state, because of the fundamentalist direction in which it seems to be leading the country.
See: http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=12384&size=A
Tags: Religion, Turkey, Womens Rights