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Wed 01 Jan 2010East meets west: speakers debate women’s rights and religious beliefs
THE LEADER of a banned UK group has told a debate that talking about the rights of women in a Western society like Ireland where Muslims are a minority “inevitably smacks of trying to force the minority to accept the majority belief as the norm”.
He said that in a society where 95 per cent of people were secular, Islam faced an uphill battle.
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