Tunisian women's rights plan rattles Muslim traditionalists | Religion News Service - 0 views
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An initiative by Tunisia’s president to make inheritance and marriage rules fairer to women is reverberating around the Muslim world, and risks dividing his country
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He’s gambling that he could shepherd through such changes because his secular party is in a coalition with an Islamist one, and because his overwhelmingly Muslim country has a history of relatively progressive views toward women.
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the Tunisian parliament has overturned the law that banned women from marrying non-Muslims
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