The manager, the only woman within the transitional government, explained that if the action of these organizations “supported the model that we are going to build, then they would be welcome: I am not going to open the way to anyone who is not agree with my thoughts. She invited Syrian women, whether in exile or in the country, “to come together around the same table to study the model” that Syria wishes to adopt to strengthen the place of women and their rights.
“Nature created by God”
“Why adopt a secular or civil model? We are going to put in place a model specific to Syrian society and it is the Syrian woman who will achieve it,” she declared. Addressing Syrian women – Sunni, Druze, Alawite or Christian – she insisted that “we are all equal” and invited “those who have diplomas and experience” to turn to government institutions for a job.
But she also called on women “not to overstep the priorities of their nature created by God”, namely “their educational role within the family”, comments which provoked strong reactions. “You can speak your own mind […] in your house, but do not impose on us your thoughts which want us to stay at home,” denounced an internet user, Batraa Abo Aljadayel, on Facebook. “No to new cultural and political repression […] a repression of public and individual freedoms. »
The government calms things down
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