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Lord Singh of Wimbledon (CB)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 5 March 2025

Debate

International Women’s Day

Contribution

My Lords, religion still plays an important part in many lives. Religious texts written centuries ago often denigrate women. Most people learn to skip over those bits, but the extremists latch on to them. Is it not time to ask religious leaders to interpret those texts in the context of today’s times for guidance to their followers? That is the only forward, to get away from the kind of situation we find in Afghanistan.

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