Shafaq /Kifah Hadi  While the Kurdistan Regional Government is seeking to consolidate democracy and the protection of human rights,…

 

the parties of political Islam backed by outside forces  are pursuing their  campaign against the Kurdish enlightened women and the educated elite. Taman Shakir said in an exclusive interview with Shafaq:
"It seems that the suffering of the citizens in the center and the governorates of the middle and south from the narrowing of civil liberties has begun to creep north toward the Kurdistan region in an atmosphere of freedom, which has become the preserve of political Islam men under the banner of (the defense of public morals).
She added: (The problem is that some of the clergy who want to return us back to the subversion of democracy through the influence on the general community and intervention in matters of state and civil society).
Taman Shaker confirmed that the majority of the community in the Region of Kurdistan are Muslims, but we do not want to restore history which was full of disasters and political tragedies, we chose democracy and we do not want the clergy to interfere in  the matters of state).
And on the objections and protests demanding the maintenance of freedom and the demands for equality between women and men Taman said: (We continue our protest until the officials in the Region legislate laws that ensure equality between men and women and put legal controls that prevent those who attempt the confiscation of civil liberties. The intellectuals and civil society activists demand, the region's president and prime minister and parliament to expand the circle of participation of Kurdish women, who fought for freedom, democracy and defend the rights of the Kurdish  nation's rights  as well as to preserve our lives that are threatened by the writings and speeches of some of the clergy).

Regarding the implications of the recent claims by some to reduce the space of freedoms in the region Taman Shakir expressed concerns about what is happening in the centre of marginalization of the role of women: ( We do not want to follow  the example of the Iraqi government, for  we enjoy federalism and have come a long way on the road of democracy, while the Iraqi government, which was formed recently caused women to be disappeared  and they  marginalized their role and we do not want to see that in the region).
On what a clergy reported in his book (The lost truth ), in which he accused Taman Shakir and others of spread of corruption and fomenting social and political problems in the Kurdistan Region she  praised the attitude of some clergy who are enlightened ,patriots defending the civil rights and seek the development of the Kurdish community.

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