Information Minister Hasanul Haque Inu on Monday called upon people to resist those who announce fatwa (religious edict) against woman employment.
Addressing the 3rd annual conference of the Saarc Business Associate of Home Based Workers Bangladesh in the capital as the chief guest, Inu said tens of thousands of women workers are employed in the country’s cottage industry making the economy robust.
“Those who humiliate the women engaged in the noble works and pronounced fatwa against women education and employment will have to be resisted,” he added.
The Information Minister said organisation like Saarc Business Associate of Home Based Workers (SABAH) is needed for women development and empowerment.
“It’s possible to develop the country keeping pace with the world jointly by the government and the private initiatives,” he said.
Poor and underprivileged home based Bangladeshi woman workers, who are engaged in the cottage and handicraft industries as entrepreneurs and workers participated in the conference held at Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib Auditorium of Jatiya Mahila Sangstha.
Sponsored by Saarc Development Fund (SDF), the SABAH project started its journey in Bangladesh in 2009. The same project is also functioning in other Saarc-member countries.
Inu said Bangladesh is now passing through four struggles — struggle for getting rid of poverty, disparity, environmental pollution and militancy communalism. To win the struggle, the country’s politics must be freed from extremism and communalism, he said.
Chairperson of parliamentary standing committee on the Ministry of Woman and Children Affairs Fazilatun Nesa Indira, MP spoke on the occasion as a special guest.
SABAH Bangladesh chairperson Gul Afroze Mahbub presided over the function.
Source: UNBConnect
Mr. Inu has got a very racy issue on the girls/women working outside their homes. This is apparently a very attractive issue no doubt and most women workers being uneducated and misinformed about the real dictates of our religion about women may come to his benefit. But the hon’ble Minister should not forget that falsehood is always very short-living. Our working women are sufficiently abiding by the dictates of our religions and unlike their urban so-called progressive counterparts they are modest, humble and respectful to humility. And Islam does never shackles women; rather Islam encourages women to make contribution to the society in their capacity but only with modesty and humility. And that’s nothing but for their safety and security. Straying from that has resulted in a devastating situation for women in India where gang-rape has become the rule of the day. But there are a number of anti-Islamic women and other secular forums which like to see women as they are – which fits a famous Hindi dialogue – ‘O auroten ghar jorhnewali nehi, balke ghar torhnewali hai’.