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"Mr President, Commissioner, I am very grateful for your reply and relieved that the Commission has acted so swiftly in this matter. The punishment of the woman in question was based on Islamic law. An unmarried woman had become pregnant, by all accounts as the result of rape.
The question as I see it, however, is not just the status of women, but an attempt at power politics, where Islam is being used in Nigeria to stir up the feelings of the people and create artificial disputes, as I have brought to the attention of the Commission in my earlier written questions. I would now like to ask whether the Commission has considered any tools that might be used through our policy on development cooperation to lessen this ever-growing exploitation of religious tension."@en1
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