tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931921496989071942.post8005334005701323206..comments2023-06-08T07:32:39.725-05:00Comments on Aristotle's Feminist Subject: The Voice of Benazir BhuttoJ. K. Gaylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07600312868663460988noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931921496989071942.post-12910103133986056712007-12-28T15:04:00.000-06:002007-12-28T15:04:00.000-06:00Here are the sexist practices Bhutto worked agains...Here are the sexist practices Bhutto worked against in Pakistan:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Pakistan#Practices" REL="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Pakistan#Practices</A>J. K. Gaylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07600312868663460988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931921496989071942.post-77154682734108812822007-12-28T15:02:00.000-06:002007-12-28T15:02:00.000-06:00Phyllis Chesler speaks with the voice of experienc...Phyllis Chesler speaks with the voice of experience:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://pajamasmedia.com/xpress/phyllischesler/2007/12/28/bhuttos_assasination_is_a_cult.php" REL="nofollow">Bhutto's Assassination Is a Political and Cultural Honor Killing</A><BR/><BR/>In a sense, the assassination of Benazir Bhutto is a political and cultural version of an honor killing. Bhutto was the first woman Prime Minister of a Muslim nation and she symbolized an unacceptably Western form of female ambition and achievement. She had attended Harvard/Radcliffe and Oxford. She spoke English—perhaps more fluently than she spoke her native Sindi or Urdu. She once dressed as Western women do. Indeed, many Muslim women from wealthy families, including educators and feminists, have done so for a long time. They cannot do so now.J. K. Gaylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07600312868663460988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931921496989071942.post-79271599693634982722007-12-28T13:23:00.000-06:002007-12-28T13:23:00.000-06:00Here's Andrew C. McCarthy's published opinion the ...Here's Andrew C. McCarthy's published opinion the next day:<BR/><BR/>"The real Pakistan is a breeding ground of Islamic holy war where, for about half the population, the only thing more intolerable than Western democracy is the prospect of a faux democracy led by <A HREF="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/28/opinion/main3653539.shtml" REL="nofollow"><I><B>A WOMAN</B></I></A> - indeed, a product of feudal Pakistani privilege and secular Western breeding whose father, President Zulfiquar Ali Bhutto, had been branded as an enemy of Islam by influential Muslim clerics in the early 1970s."J. K. Gaylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07600312868663460988noreply@blogger.com