"We don't think that religious liberty claims can be used as a way to discriminate against women employees using those claims to take away someone else's benefits and services, " Amiri said.

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According to the report, women in the Arab world lose more years of their life to disease than their male counterparts, even in countries with higher standards of living, which, it says, "is attributable to general lifestyles that discriminate against women".

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The researchers' unavoidable and unpalatable conclusion is that old-fashioned jealousy led the women to discriminate against pretty candidates.

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In 2014, it will be illegal for insurance companies to discriminate against anyone with a pre-existing condition, or charge women higher premiums than they charge men.

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But if you're asking me whether we need to change the provisions of the Act of Settlement which discriminate against Catholics, and incidentally women, well the answer's yes.

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Thus, if you believe in sharia finance, as a Muslim, you must also believe that it is your religious obligation to establish sharia worldwide by violent jihad, kill apostates, adulterers and homosexuals and discriminate against infidels and women among other sharia mandates.

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