Pakistani Minister: Muslim Woman’s Role Implies Close-Knit Family Versus Globalization and Cultural Invasion
Tehran-Naziha Saleh*
The Pakistani Minister of National Regulations and Services, Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan, highlighted "the importance of endeavoring to protect our society and generations from any intrusion prone to affecting their conduct incompliantly with the teachings of Islam," capitalizing the effective role of women in facing globalization and cultural invasion.
In remarks made to al-Intiqad on the sidelines of the "Family and Globalization" conference, held at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran. The Minister noted the uniqueness of the Lebanese woman whom, in her terms, time has not treated fairly. "But the day will come when she'd be a world example of a woman striving for her freedom and the freedom of her society," she said.
Besides, the Minister underlined the necessity to carry on holding similar conferences "in order that we remain abreast about what is happening around us and protect our generations from any intrusion that could possibly affect their conduct incompliantly with the teachings of Islam."
"This is why we hail the Islamic Republic, which has committed to facing this looming
risk and undertaken to muster capacities and potentials through the panel of intellectuals and researchers who partook in the conference, with a view to reaching solutions and drawing strategic plans and visions," she maintained.
In response to a question about the role society members ought to assume to contribute to the success of preventive plans against the negative impact of globalization, the Minister stressed on the role of woman in family. "The woman is undeniably the backbone of the upbringing inside the family; the more aware she is, the more solid her family is in the face of globalization and cultural breakthrough," she explained.
"In the conference, we focused on this paramount side; this is why I hope that the [conference's] closing decisions and recommendations would not be mere ink on paper. We must bring them into effect," she added. "Each participant in this world conference can put these plans in the hands of actives in the Islamic countries in an effort to beget significant upshots on the educational level."
She also said it was important that cooperation continues among the participants per se on all cultural, political, social, economic and medical levels and goes beyond the proceedings of this conference.
She relayed hopes that the Islamic Republic would carry on offering available motives to boost intra-national cooperation, and that relations between Iran and all countries-- particularly between Iran and Pakistan-- develop into a model for other countries to follow amid the existing and advantageous potentials. She also hoped that other countries would b open to Iran, calling for a better enhancement of the ample and inclusive ties with the Islamic Republic as to cooperation on the level of health and treatment, considering Iran's successful experience in that respect.
The Lebanese woman had a particular share in the Minister's remarks. "In Pakistan and all the countries I have been to, the Lebanese woman is an example to follow, in terms of her upbringing-which we noticed in the culture of resistance that the Lebanese society enjoys in facing the incessant violations by the Zionist entity-as well as in terms of her patience and struggle while standing by the man she raised to face "Israel." This woman, for long patient and unwearied--ever since the Zionist occupation of Palestine-is still bearing the brunt; she shakes the cradle for her baby with one hand, and extends weapons with the other," the Minister said.
"This is a one-of-a-kind woman; time has not done her justice yet, but one day, she will be the world example of a woman who fights for her freedom and the freedom of her society. She will be a lesson to be taught in schools, institutes, and universities worldwide, raking up the exemplary Joan of Arc and other world role models," she concluded.
*Translated and edited by moqawama.org
The Pakistani Minister of National Regulations and Services, Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan, highlighted "the importance of endeavoring to protect our society and generations from any intrusion prone to affecting their conduct incompliantly with the teachings of Islam," capitalizing the effective role of women in facing globalization and cultural invasion.
In remarks made to al-Intiqad on the sidelines of the "Family and Globalization" conference, held at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran. The Minister noted the uniqueness of the Lebanese woman whom, in her terms, time has not treated fairly. "But the day will come when she'd be a world example of a woman striving for her freedom and the freedom of her society," she said.Besides, the Minister underlined the necessity to carry on holding similar conferences "in order that we remain abreast about what is happening around us and protect our generations from any intrusion that could possibly affect their conduct incompliantly with the teachings of Islam."
"This is why we hail the Islamic Republic, which has committed to facing this looming
risk and undertaken to muster capacities and potentials through the panel of intellectuals and researchers who partook in the conference, with a view to reaching solutions and drawing strategic plans and visions," she maintained.
In response to a question about the role society members ought to assume to contribute to the success of preventive plans against the negative impact of globalization, the Minister stressed on the role of woman in family. "The woman is undeniably the backbone of the upbringing inside the family; the more aware she is, the more solid her family is in the face of globalization and cultural breakthrough," she explained.
"In the conference, we focused on this paramount side; this is why I hope that the [conference's] closing decisions and recommendations would not be mere ink on paper. We must bring them into effect," she added. "Each participant in this world conference can put these plans in the hands of actives in the Islamic countries in an effort to beget significant upshots on the educational level."
She also said it was important that cooperation continues among the participants per se on all cultural, political, social, economic and medical levels and goes beyond the proceedings of this conference.
She relayed hopes that the Islamic Republic would carry on offering available motives to boost intra-national cooperation, and that relations between Iran and all countries-- particularly between Iran and Pakistan-- develop into a model for other countries to follow amid the existing and advantageous potentials. She also hoped that other countries would b open to Iran, calling for a better enhancement of the ample and inclusive ties with the Islamic Republic as to cooperation on the level of health and treatment, considering Iran's successful experience in that respect.
The Lebanese woman had a particular share in the Minister's remarks. "In Pakistan and all the countries I have been to, the Lebanese woman is an example to follow, in terms of her upbringing-which we noticed in the culture of resistance that the Lebanese society enjoys in facing the incessant violations by the Zionist entity-as well as in terms of her patience and struggle while standing by the man she raised to face "Israel." This woman, for long patient and unwearied--ever since the Zionist occupation of Palestine-is still bearing the brunt; she shakes the cradle for her baby with one hand, and extends weapons with the other," the Minister said.
"This is a one-of-a-kind woman; time has not done her justice yet, but one day, she will be the world example of a woman who fights for her freedom and the freedom of her society. She will be a lesson to be taught in schools, institutes, and universities worldwide, raking up the exemplary Joan of Arc and other world role models," she concluded.
*Translated and edited by moqawama.org
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