“Governments should be separate from ideologies, and elected representatives of the people should determine the laws that govern them,” said Nobel laureate and Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi during a recent talk at Yale.
More than 400 people gathered at the Yale Law School’s Levinson Auditorium March 3 to hear Ebadi deliver the second Gruber Distinguished Lecture in Global Justice. Her talk, “Human Rights in the Muslim World,” addressed whether or not Islam is compatible with a democratic system of government that supports human rights.
http://news.yale.edu/2014/03/04/modern-muslims-faith-and-democracy-are-compatible-says-iranian-nobel-laureate
