Komla Dumor http://newsbusters.org/taxonomy/term/7876/0 en BBC World Service Suggests Catholicism to Blame for Women Suffering From Global Credit Crunch http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2010/10/21/bbc-world-service-suggests-catholicism-blame-women-suffering-global-cr <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"All this week on 'The World Today,' we're taking a close look at why it is that women are feeling the credit crunch more than men around the world," <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/institutional/2009/03/000000_komla_dumor.shtml">BBC presenter Komla Dumor</a> told listeners of the October 21 <a href="http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/globalnews/globalnews_20101021-0340a.mp3">Global News podcast</a>, adding that "one obvious reason is that they're starting from a disadvantaged position in society and in many cultures around the world, that position of disadvantage is sanctioned by religion."</p> <p> That's hard to dispute, given the role that radical Islam has in treating women in countries like Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan as, at best, second-class citizens.</p> <p> But of course radical Islam was not put on the defensive by the BBC today, Catholicism was.</p> </div></div></div> Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:42:11 +0000 Ken Shepherd 39627 at http://newsbusters.org