Sayeeda Warsi in an interview with the Guardian says that Pakistan's treatment of women fails Islam.
Warsi who according to some is tipped to be Britain's next ambassador to Pakistan in my opinion is absolutely spot on about how a country established as an "Islamic Republic" ironically by it's not very practicing Gin drinking founder has completely failed women. As a result the fundamental rights guaranteed to women in the Quran are indeed being denied on a massive scale.
Notwithstanding the appalling treatment of women most notably evidenced by the gruesome case of gang rape involving Mukhtar Mai which was not mentioned in the article, Warsi's comments got me thinking that its not just Pakistan's treatment of women which fails Islam. What about minorities like the Baluchi's, Shias, Christians and Ahmadis.
However, what LM finds interesting is how Pakistani Muslim sisters are increasingly articulating a credible and critical condemnation of a country increasingly ruined by bizarre male chauvinistic attitudes based on culture rather than the Quran. Before Warsi's views on the treatment of women we had Saira Khan's formidable opinions on cousin marriages and recently Fatima Bhutto who perhaps most accurately described Pakistan as being on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Warsi who according to some is tipped to be Britain's next ambassador to Pakistan in my opinion is absolutely spot on about how a country established as an "Islamic Republic" ironically by it's not very practicing Gin drinking founder has completely failed women. As a result the fundamental rights guaranteed to women in the Quran are indeed being denied on a massive scale.
Notwithstanding the appalling treatment of women most notably evidenced by the gruesome case of gang rape involving Mukhtar Mai which was not mentioned in the article, Warsi's comments got me thinking that its not just Pakistan's treatment of women which fails Islam. What about minorities like the Baluchi's, Shias, Christians and Ahmadis.
However, what LM finds interesting is how Pakistani Muslim sisters are increasingly articulating a credible and critical condemnation of a country increasingly ruined by bizarre male chauvinistic attitudes based on culture rather than the Quran. Before Warsi's views on the treatment of women we had Saira Khan's formidable opinions on cousin marriages and recently Fatima Bhutto who perhaps most accurately described Pakistan as being on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Culture or Quran > that's weird & illogical., like comparing chalk & cheese!
ReplyDeleteAs if there's anything like a cultural vacuum.
Or worse, self-haters implying that anything non-Westoxified is a presumably pejorative "culture" & the fallacy that the West does not have that.
Naturally some non-Muslim Westerners may also take offence at being accused of having no culture.
LM, manages to create an unrealistic bastard chimera,neither here nor there, how to indulge in being neither fish nor fowl.
As for anti-Sunnah cousin marriages, unscientific pro-Huntingdonian tripe.