Shame on you our young women.

On 13 April a lecture was given at the University of Melbourne on Islamic Jihad in Syria. It was held in a University lecture theatre by an Islamic group.
At the entrance was a sign:

"Sisters to the back, Brothers to the front"

That is called sexual segregation. There was a time when Australian women students would have opposed this segregation, but not now apparently.
What would have happened if an organisation had been giving a lecture on say colonial wars and had a sign at the entrance :

"Blacks to the back, Whites to the front"

There would have been a huge uproar.

The university's gender politics professor Sheila Jeffreys said "There needs to be great outrage over this", "It is a new practice in Australia" Where was the student outrage? The sign was not obligatory and a few blokes sat with the sisters, but absolutely no sisters sat with the blokes, and no  women protested about the segregation. Professor Jeffries said it should have been a Rosa Parks moment, but it was not.
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the coloured section of a bus in Alabama, USA in 1955, to a white passenger. Her arrest and subsequent boycott of the bus company led one year later to the court determining that seating segregation on buses was unconstitutional in the USA. A major victory for human rights.

This is not the only lecture given on the University campus by an Islamic organisation that promoted gender segregation. On 10 March the IREA (Islamic Research and Education Academy) hired a theatre at the University (remember the Melbourne Islamic peace conference), where the same segregation principles applied. There have apparently been other cases at the university also. It is interesting that after the IREA gave a lecture at University College London, and applied the same segregation rules, that University refused to rehire theatres to them.

The ICV (Islamic Council of Victoria) "supports initiatives of the Muslim Community held in accordance with Islamic guidance and legal norms" and finds no fault with segregation at the university function..
Further, the ICV hides behind Australia's legal obligations of freedom of religion. Under the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 section 37  says -"the prohibition of gender discrimination does not affect an act or PRACTICE that conforms to the doctrines, tenets, or beliefs of that religion". This is a point made by the Vice Chancellor Glyn Davis saying there are two sides to this debate.

Be aware women of Australia, if Islamic religious practice is legal in this country, then welcome to Saudi Arabia and the middle ages.
Stand up against outdated sexual segregation, don't let cultural relativism and political correctness erode the equality and freedoms we have for all women in this country.