Mehrangiz Kar's Views In Commemoration of the International Human Rights Day
Saturday 12 May 07
The universal principles of human rights in Muslim societies have encountered serious obstacles that have been created by Islamic scholars’ (foghaha) different interpretations of Islam. In Islamic societies, the political and social power of the conservative and fundamentalist Islamic scholars (foghaha) is still more than of those scholars who are more moderate and modern to the point that even the ruling governments could not overcome the power and authority of the fundamental foghaha...