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77 other women, working with women’s organizations, and moving around freely. We had a European guest about two years ago. She was a good writer. She spent the whole day with women and in the evening remarked: “Initially I felt quite odd that I am only among ladies, but after spending the entire day here, I realized that I am at greater liberty and feel more secure. ” Thus, if a woman—while maintaining her dignity—is told of her rights, it will not matter if she is a non-Muslim brought up in the west. She will acknowledge that Islam preserves the rights of women; she will acknowledge that segregated seating does not take away their freedom. The representative of this Channel 4 who came here yesterday tweeted about our exhibition or another event and remarked that such and such event is happening but ladies are not permitted to go there. Then, the same women gave a response to those tweets. But I am also pleased that a number of Ahmadi girls also replied to her expressing that she was wrong. In any case, this is a reaction against a man-made law which is being voiced in the name of female liberty in the so-called developed countries of the west. Women are conscious that they require the assistance of men to acquire this liberty and subconsciously, reveal their natural fragility using this assistance. Where men have supported women in this cause, they have also taken advantage of their fragile nature. In the name of female liberty, they have stripped women of their dignity in order to satisfy their own desires. That is the reason why a British female writer wrote in an article that men are very active in struggling for this campaign—launched in the name of female liberty—of stripping women of their and dressing women scantily. They are enduring these struggles for the satisfaction of their own desires of seeing woman naked [as it were] than for the liberty of women. Thus, sensible women of the west, themselves, acknowledge this fact.