From women's e-news:
"Malalai Joya, one of Afghanistan's most controversial female lawmakers, was removed from her post on May 21 after she referred to the lower house of parliament as "worse than a stable" in a TV interview. Joya has been an open critic of Afghan tribal leaders since she was elected in 2005. In neighboring Pakistan, Nilofar Bakhtiar, the minister of tourism, was forced out of office after a pro-Taliban cleric criticized her for hugging a parachute instructor, Reuters reported May 22. Bakhtiar hugged the instructor while she was in France, after making a jump to raise money for the October 2005 earthquake that killed 73,000 people in Pakistan."
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I was just reading about Malalai Joya. I frankly think her courage to speak out against the Taliban, the Northern Alliance, Hamid Karzai, NATO, and the United States puts Hirsi Ali to shame. Despite this, Hirsi Ali is about 50X more famous.
And you know why, right?
Think of what quickly Hirsi Ali will lose her popularity once she speaks against anybody else but Islam.
....take the website http://afghanistanica.com/2007/05/21/malalai-joya-heroic-or-reckless/ , for instance, which accuses Joya of being "reckless" to speak against NATO and concludes the article with a disclaimer saying how much he appreciates the "Islamic feminists" Hirsi Ali and Irshad Manji.
So basically the boldness of Ali and Manji is "courage" while the boldness of Joya is "reckless." Go figure.
I check that out. You're right. But I'm glad the writer had that disclaimer there: it revealed a lot about his/her politics.
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