The majority of Muslim women, including Moroccans, regard western culture as morally corrupt and obsessed with sex and drugs, said a Gallup World Poll study.
The study, titled "What Women Want: Listening to the Voices of Muslim Women," released Tuesday, surveyed 8,000 Muslim women from Morocco, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
According to the poll, conducted in 2005, most Muslim women disapprove of the way women are treated in the west and dislike the sexual "promiscuity, pornography and public indecency."
“Sexual freedom portrayed in the western media is actually degrading to women, not a form of liberation," said Dalia Mogahed, executive director of Gallup Muslim Studies, which conducted the survey.
Mogahed quoted a 22-year-old Moroccan woman as saying that she had resented "the disrespect of women by men" in the West.
Most respondents thought adhering to Western values is not a solution to the political and economic problems in the Muslim world.
They nevertheless admired their society's adherence to Islamic values, pointing out that ‘Sharia' (Islamic law) should be the source of political legislation.
Asked about what they resented in their societies, the majority pointed out lack of unity, extremism, and political and economic corruption.
Inequality between sexes did not seem to be among their worries. Only 2% of women in Egypt and Morocco said it was a problem.
Their main concerns were, according to the poll, the right to vote, work outside the home and hold high ranking government positions.
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