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"War Has Got to Be A Last Option . . . I Believe that America Has to Exercise All Options"

Right. Buckle up, because we’re about to jump on the Hate-on-Palin bandwagon. Firstly, when a vice-presidential candidate evokes bitter articles from people from her own home state, political party, political faction, and gender, who used to consider her a close friend, that’s a bad sign. Secondly, when a vice-presidential candidate stalls her way through two [...]

You Can Kill a [Wo]man, but Not an Idea: Benazir Bhutto & Female Leadership

Benazir Bhutto was catapulted into public consciousness in Western media on December 27th when a suicide bomber took her life, as well as those of at least 26 others. Bhutto, a former Pakistani Prime Minister, graduate of Harvard Law School, wife, and mother of three, will be missed not just by the ordinary family members, [...]

I can see clearly now, my Cultural Bias is gone. . .

Rereading my site, it seems to me that some more layers need to be involved. For example, one of my friends who hails from Pakistan told me about how one of her feminist aunts chooses to wear the chador because she finds it freeing to hide her appearance from other people. It happened, she said, [...]