women's rights whether he whether he. goes the station you're quite an interesting mix of absolute european democrat and a spiritual leader in islam when you try to fight islamophobia and open up your religion open up islam from a different angle how do your fellow believers see you i mean do you think you are a true muslim in their eyes in the must live of the clerics from egypt or iraq or maybe don't even care what they think. actually i do not seek the recognitions of of other people i seek the recognition of. but of course it means something to me what people think. actually we had a visitor it's it was the granny mom from the third largest mosques in the indonesia in jakarta it's called the mosque the granny mom he has two hundred thousand muslim this it says every friday for his friday prayer he came to

the mahdi a mosque in copenhagen he prayed in a mosque and he blessed our mosque and he blessed the concept of female in months and he even quoted the one of my favorite inspirational sources which is it been out of be here from eleven sixty five until twelve forty and he said the perfect man is a woman so we have muslim spiritual great leaders who support the mosque and of course we also met by a position because when you when you change a patriarchal structure you change the power balance and people will become upset it's natural so in your new reality in your everyday reality what is harder dealing with the national islam of right wingers or religious islamist fanatics i think both i mean there are very similar they're similar both sides both sides they tend to generalize they are manipulating guide katsumi between them and us between being

a muslim and being a secure a list we've seen muslims and jews and muslims and and christians and all of these manipulate the dichotomy as you will find it on both sides and this is actually what i try to fight against or what we try to fight against or challenge we try to deconstruct all of these manipulated by cuts and nice showing the world that islam is a religion and it's a peaceful religion and it's possible to be a practicing muslims who believe that the koran is the word of god and at the same time be here a member of secular society. he's it is possible all right sure and we're going to take a short break right now while we're back we'll continue talking about cher rain on con denmark's first female a mom discussing her fight against islam also be out in europe stay with us.

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a mom talking about the future of islam in europe sure in iraq or the council of islamic scholars is allowing women to officiate marriages in saudi arabia where men have been allowed to drive so there are steps forward in more traditional islamic countries but do you understand that from a western point of view i mean this isn't really impressive this is a very basic things that shouldn't have been banned in the first place. yes i agree with you totally. in the marry a mosque we have constructed a new marriage islamic marriage contract that gives women muslim women the right to divorce actually due today in the world muslim women do not have the basic right to divorce it's the right of the husband so and actually it's an islamic principle the right to divorce so we have contracted a new marriage contract giving women the basic islamic right to divorce and if palagi news for bitten in our contract if mental of physical violence occur the

marriage is a no and the woman has the right over the children in case of a divorce we also conduct into religious marriages in the mara mosque as the first one in scandinavia we believe that any person has the right to choose her partner for life and it should be a very basic thing and but unfortunately today one of the biggest or not only in the muslim world but also in europe is into faith marriages and the concept of interfaith marriage is i'm going to accommodate you that limbs leaders yes i'm going to come before was it about that amat arab spring activists woman from yemen and libya and they work on women's rights while looking to see a logical foundations ways to interpret in the koran finding the right how does except our kids one of his rights ever work outside religion in islamic communities where i mean is that for instance feminism in a west isn't tied to religion salmon is don't go to st luke course and paul they

don't turn to bible and ask them women have rights to so secular feminism even possible in muslim culture of course it's possible it's happening all the time i mean in in many muslim countries you have a population there a secure list and they're not even occupied with religion but i'm occupied with. reform within religion occupied about how we can re read the koran with a focus on gender equality but the secular feminism is i mean it's present all over the world also in the muslim world so when you say down with polygamy down with oppression of women you can be a good muslim and not wear a veil but i'd imagine your religious opponents would say wait well this isn't really slum at all is islam really and all you can eat cafeteria where you get to pick and choose what you like and discard what you don't like and actually i

believe that as a muslim leader as a muslim spiritual leader i mean we shouldn't judge other people it's not our i mean we should listen to people in the merriam us we have the million moms with and without the scarf and in that sense we are reflecting reality as it is and i'm very confident i'm happy about that now interface marriages you conduct them in your mosque people come from all over europe to get married to get married by you saying that it's impossible to find a man elsewhere would do it but if other humans don't do it that means that your religion is against that so is this technically cheating actually tunisia is the first muslim country in the world they change the law in december two thousand and seventeen and now they made it possible for muslim women to marry non muslims and i think that that could create

a domino effect in the rest of the muslim world not now but maybe in the future because someone has to take the first step we are actually not the only mosque that conducts interfaith marriages it is happening different places in the world but it's happening maybe it's not official officially it's not stated that it's happening but i know that it's happening in different places so. i don't mean to offend but i need to get down to the core of things right and like i ask you where and whether there are double standards in every scene that we're talking about here maybe someone who can tell you that clinging to their religion in such a ways really paying lip service for it what i mean is that if islam doesn't accept hypothetically interface marriages then if i want to marry a hindu and i'm a muslim well maybe islam is not for me if it calls me to me a sinner for it right and if i'm gay and the catholic church doesn't want me at prayer where we catholics are missing for me what's the point if you simply don't

sit i mean i do believe that interfaith marriage is legitimate also according to islam as a religion in the koran it stated clearly that a muslim man can marry a jew or christian but it's not stated clearly that a woman can marry a jew or muslim and it's not stated that she cannot but in the koran it stated clearly that both men and women should seek devoted seekers of the one so we find the legitimacy in the koran and we do believe that the right to choose your partner is a basic right it's a basic human right and if you believe that the koran i mean contains an essence on gender equality i mean what goes for the man goes for the woman so this is actually where we come from and what we believe in now i wonder if you have any ties with women clerics of other religions like female rabbis or female christian

priests is there any kind of gender solidarity that is crossing religious lines. i mean we are in the area most we call parade with other i mean communities we have very inspired by the jewish progressive jews in denmark and i also recently met delphine in the front i met the french president recently in the company of the fiend and we're really inspired by what they do because fema rabbis are doing the same thing as we are doing with a new so i think we have a lot to learn from each other you know we hear many top political figures in europe saying that islam doesn't belong to europe you live in a country with a government strongly against islam does it make it hard for you to get your message across or the rhetoric of the politicians level on the politicians level doesn't really reflect what ordinary people think and how they treat you. i think

it's a myth to state that the government in denmark is against islam that's not the case we have a growing islamophobia or a growing and his i mean rhetorical propaganda in denmark but it's in the right right wing parties so the government in general they do accept islam as a religion like any other religion but. so so at a state level it's accepted and no i don't experience this kind of anti islamic retore at the state level but of course in the right wing parties at a daily basis you experience and make retore comparable again and we try to challenge that so there is push from muslims in countries like england canada france to create a separate sharia legality for them since those laws are the way of the face do you

think that muslims in non islamic societies should have a separate legal system for themselves though i do not think so i think that it's that muslims all over the world i mean in european countries they should. they should accept and be a part of the constitution that is existing in the existing countries and it's also stated clearly in the koran that muslims have to. i mean submit themselves to the existing constitutions in the countries that they live in so it's actually very basic. and i do believe that the western educational system is quite good and we also spoke about i mean what would it be like if we had a female in my maid or any my medication in denmark and actually i think that the western a joke ational system is quite good and it's quite good fundament for being a female. so the culture clash in secular societies gets violent sometimes i mean.

we remember the danish can occur to the prophet challis a bill or the american muhammad movie and how many people died as a result of of all of that. what should come first here the riots of europeans to draw any cartoon they wish or the religious sensibility of muslims. i think that there of course freedom of speech is a universal value and it's a fundamental value and it's not a christian westen no you it's a universal value which is shared by all people all over the world to me as a muslim freedom of speech. is an essential value at the same time i have another essential value which is. the believe that the koran is the word of god or you know this sensitivity. so i do believe that. it's important as

human beings that when we we have this freedom of speech but it's not a freedom to evaluate other people or to discriminate other people so always with freedom of speech there comes responsibility so we all everybody's responsible for how we talk and how we meet people and we have to ask ourselves what is the purpose of the dialogue what do we want to use of freedom of speech what do we want to use it to if we want to have a dialogue with people who thinks differently or i mean it's not a very good strategy to speak very badly about these people and so we have to ask ourselves what do we want to use the freedom of speech with what we what what is the purpose of freedom of speech so on both sides i mean everybody has to has to you know be aware that. you know we have to be responsible when we

when we have the power to express ourselves i mean with that with that power comes responsibility so as a spiritual muslim leader i know that i have a certain responsibility and i and you know when you have a power you have a responsibility and i think we should reflect upon that scene when this gus. sing and freedom of speech because it's really very important sure in thank you very much for this wonderful interview we wish you all about a lot of luck were talking to sure we conned denmark's first female imaam discussing whether islam and european values can co-exist that is it for this edition of sophie and co i will see you next. thank you.

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in. washington releases its latest list of anti russian thanks come into effect next monday we look at. a difference they might make on top of the existing restrictions . plus be aware of being a new channel of strong russia colluding stories again hit headlines t.v. channels are now being caught in the crosshairs also this hour. a rift at the top and scotland's governing party over sexual allegations leveled against former first minister alex salmond he talks about why he's taking legal action against the government in edinburgh it's an extraordinary situation when the scottish government starts to break his for the club so then charlotte after the shooting everybody connected with this that that was going to be absolutely protected for

the process. a very warm welcome to the program to you from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour the united states has confirmed that the latest anti russia sanctions will kick in on monday the restrictions will target russia's financial sector as well as arms sales reporting from washington d.c. here some america. these sanctions were announced earlier this month over russia's alleged involvement in the script paul poison in which there still is no evidence for russia has repeatedly denied its involvement and has even offered its assistance to the quay and investigating the incident but this was apparently ignored now the new batch of sanctions will come into force on august twenty seventh and will prohibit russia from importing secure u.s. goods and technology related to national security but there were also

a few waivers first the foreign assistance act which would have terminated all aid to russia except for urgent humanitarian assistance is waived second the prohibition on arms sales that was introduced in two thousand and fourteen will also be waived determined on a case to case basis a state department official said that these waivers are essential to national security third arm sales of financing which has been in place already sanctions will deny u.s. government credit and financial assistance ban exports of secure goods and tech a few days ago president putin said that these sanctions were counterproductive let's take a look. regarding the sanctions those actions are counterproductive and meaningless to me especially when it comes to a country like russia it's not just about the u.s. president's position it's about the position of the so-called establishment the ruling class in broader terms of the realisation that this policy has no future will come one day and we will cooperate in a normal fashion. now is russia get slapped with sanctions it's very likely that

we'll see russia respond with to for tat measures political journalist john white believes washington's focus on sanctions is an attempt to divert media attention from troubles at home. i think there is the discord in washington over the effect you see over the sanctions clearly i think key members of the trumpet ministration would be opposed understanding that there counterproductive and also have to pay attention to the increasing disquiet in europe over the sanctions especially in germany which has of course a long standing economic ties with russia so it's to be expected that some of them would be waived but i think this is just an attempt to confuse the public maint and united states to try and distract from the growing problems within that country of problems of ratio and justice social or economic injustice that tend to force on force consensus when it comes to the ability of the us ruling class to wage wage

domination in a world this position in a world. trump russia collision stories are again gaining momentum but now one t.v. channel is under fire but even suspected of being in cahoots with the kremlin and the hawkins looks into the claims we've all heard about trump russian election collusion you know the great scam that brought the u.s. president to power whose ation of collusion collude passably smells a whole lot like collusion there was ample evidence of collusion but where is the closure you know there's still looking for clues or where is the delusion finds a delusion little did we know the conspiracy goes deeper now it's in the media it started with a trump tweet on proposed land expropriations and alleged murders of white farmers in south africa covered prior to this by fox news president of south africa's pose has begun and you may have seen this in the press seizing the land from his own

citizens without compensation because they are the wrong skin color that is literally the definition of racism it's a story that's been making headlines for quite some time in different outlets multiple countries but there's just too many coincidences here coverage by r.t. to that list throw in russia and things get heated i'm simply shocked shocked shocked that r.t. has also been pushing a story line similar to tucker carlson's about threats facing white south african farmers including this family they claim sort refuge in russia. thanks for pointing out i didn't know that threat to south african farmers was a major story on r.t. there must surely be a link here a fox news report trumps twitter feed or t.v. there's a clear pattern if of course we ignore the fact this shuttle has covered related issues in south africa for quite some time the south african parliament has voted

in favor of new legislation that could see land from white farmers seized. so africa's government has vowed to tackle violent crime a problem that it says poses an equal threat for all races living in the country. just outside south africa's capital stands the statue of the man who was behind the policies of apartheid it's a whites only enclave which allows black visitors only under special permit. the discrimination of the apartheid in south africa has long come turn and all the evidence is obvious trumps been talking to the russians again and are to you collude with fox or what to cover when and how it all adds up this u.s. of illustration just loves putin and next time you see reports in russian media that's also covered by other media that's also been tweeted by trump you although what's really going on. a rift in scotland's largest political party is emerging

as the country's former first minister is being investigated over accusations of sexual misconduct and is accused of two cases of sexual harassment and the current first minister nicolas sturgeon a close ally of so and so the situation is incredibly difficult for for my party this will be extremely upsetting to members of the s.n.p. up and down the country it's a difficult situation but what is important is that completes our treaty seriously regardless of who the person complained about it is i can confirm the school. government received two complaints in january in relation to and examined mr sam and was notified of the complaints in march and forms to sam and the people involved on wednesday august twenty second of my conclusions and that i was considering the public interest in making the fact of the complaints and the investigation publicly known scotland's police have refused to confirm whether an

investigation has been opened yet allegations of sexual harassment date back to two thousand and thirteen and denies any claims of misconduct and says he is taking legal action against the scottish government we spoke to him about the allegations he's facing. i for a few to the complaints that were made against me and i have sued deny bailey semblance of criminality so when you have such things you need a process which is both confidential and fear and most reasonable people will understand and what i'm not frightened of going to the highest court in the law and to establish that it seems the scottish government looks a bit shaky in their position these investigations depend on could very convey the confidentiality if you don't have that then how and there are people going to have the confidence to complete in future because not just the person complained of oh it's the confidentiality of the complainants and the scottish government would break you that confidentiality so we told them and to not make that statement

because we were taking the action in the court of session but of course somewhere from in the bowls of the scottish government a tabloid newspaper was briefed so the story got out there for we revealed the legal action and events have taken of course but it's an extraordinary situation when the scottish government starts to break is ordered confidentiality after the shooting everybody connected with this that that was going to be absolutely protected for the process. french police have described the city of grenoble near the alps as the french chicago they've expressed grave concern over the rocketing crime rates which has seen some politicians even trying to avoid the area.

weird so many things happen when we are afraid you're afraid to go out in the evening why they can steal your jewelry they can grab your bag we have never seen anything like that the police used to be more tough but now even they are afraid outloud. loop to the. south of the island to the crime rate is significant in grenoble compared to cities of the same size the city is plagued with drug trafficking there's not a single week without a knife attack or a criminal settling their schools. had to have a new theory of the fact that interior minister came to visit because in the assam region we thought he would visit grenoble even for a short visit. in the future and we will of course make additional efforts in this

area.