Women Against Fundamentalism
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Website: http://www.womenagainstfundamentalism.org.uk/

Purpose: Women Against Fundamentalism (WAF) was formed in 1989 to challenge the rise of fundamentalism in all religions. Its members include women from a wide range of backgrounds and from across the world.
By fundamentalism we mean a modern political movement which is using religion to gain or consolidate power. We do not mean religious observance, which we see as a matter of individual choice.
Fundamentalism is found in all religions throughout the world, sometimes holding state power, sometimes in opposition to it. But whatever their relationship to the state, all fundamentalists see women's role as crucial in representing and transmitting the supposedly unchanging morals and traditions of the whole community.
Women who fail to conform to so-called traditional family values are portrayed as placing the wellbeing and future of the whole society or community at risk. The control of women's minds and bodies is, therefore, at the heart of fundamentalist agendas everywhere.

Founded: 1989

Structure: Non-Profit

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