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". When the Committee on Women’s Rights and Equal Opportunities was given permission to draw up an own-initiative report on women and fundamentalism, we had reason to hope that this report would serve not only to reiterate our condemnation of the fact that millions of women in the world are deprived of elementary human and civil rights, which we know only too well. We also nurtured the hope that this report might provide a valuable contribution that would push things in the right direction wherever a push was needed. Regrettably, our rapporteur and those who followed her lead have squandered a great opportunity; this is illustrated, incidentally, by the fact that the report was adopted by only 15 votes to 7 in the Committee on Women’s Rights, while the opinion of the Committee on Citizens’ Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs was adopted by 18 votes with 11 abstentions. The two women rapporteurs are members of the Socialist Group in this Parliament. The uncooperative approach of the rapporteur for the Committee on Women’s Rights and Equal Opportunities, and indeed her obstinate determination not to listen to reason and to throw everything into the one pot, if I may say so, means that I cannot vote in favour of this report; for one thing, it indiscriminately accuses all religions for practising a pernicious form of fundamentalism, and another, more important reason is that it seeks to manipulate this resolution to define details of the asylum and immigration policies of the European Union. This is unacceptable and I am afraid that, through her obstinacy and the tone of her report, the rapporteur has done a great disservice to the women who are victims of fundamentalism and, hence, to this House too."@en1

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