Along with the domination of extreme right wing policies of cultural 
relativism in Western countries and the rise of political Islam in the 
Middle East and North Africa in the past two decades, women and children in 
Islamic environs in the West have become the victims of systematic 
discrimination and rightlessness. Universality of rights has been openly 
violated and basic and recognised rights in the West achieved as a result 
of decades of struggle by progressive, socialist and secular people have 
been effectively and officially set aside for women and children in Islamic 
families. Islamic schools and Koran classes have mushroomed all over with 
the support and subsidies of Western and Islamic governments; thousands of 
children in different European countries have been sent to these schools to 
be brainwashed. In the heart of Europe, child marriages in accordance to 
Sharia law have been legal and under-aged girls have been forced into 
marriage. The veil, the symbol of sexual apartheid and women's 
rightlessness and humiliation, has been imposed on young girls and 
swimming, dancing, music and sex education have been prohibited. The 
circumcision of boys has been made legal. Violence against women and girls 
and honour killings have increased and courts in Western countries have 
given perpetrators and murderers reduced sentences by invoking the notion 
that honour killing is acceptable in Islam. All of these have been 
justified by politicians, the media and academics with the racist theory of 
cultural relativism and 'it's their own culture'. These last two decades 
have been truly regressive decades for humanity.

No matter how this discrimination and rightlessness are justified, however, 
they are clearly racist and must end. It is deeply shameful for humanity 
that laws from the Stone Ages have darkened the lives of a section of women 
and children and that minimum freedoms established in the West is denied 
them. The Worker-communist Party of Iran announces the following platform, 
which guarantees our most basic demands for the elimination of the 
above-mentioned discrimination and for the advancement of universal civil 
rights. The WPI calls on all progressives, socialists, children's and 
women's rights advocates, supporters of equality and those against 
discrimination as well as anti-racists to support this platform and impel 
European governments to immediately accept these demands:

1. Immediate prohibition of religious schools and education for children. 
Recruiting children to religious sects, places and ceremonies must be 
declared a criminal offence.
2. Veiling children is a violation of children's right and must be 
immediately declared unlawful.
3. Immediate prohibition of children's circumcision.
4. Termination of all government subsidies, grants and payments to 
religious organisations and institutions.
5. Prohibition of any reduced sentences or justifications for those who 
kill or abuse women.
6. An end to a policy of ghetto-isation.
7. Establishment of an institution for the protection of children who are 
faced with any type of religious discrimination, harassment and rightlessness.
8. Establishment of an institution for the protection of women who are 
threatened because of honour.
9. Immediate granting of asylum to women and girls who have fled 
Islamic-ridden societies.
10. Financial and moral support to secular and egalitarian organisations 
and campaigns.