Muslim women in politics

Reader comment on item: Female Desire and Islamic Trauma

Submitted by J. Keen Holland (United States), May 25, 2004 at 09:52

This article has added some more context to comments I have read elsewhere about the sexual dimension of the Abu Ghraib scandal. On the other hand, it raises the question as to how at least a few women have been able to rise to positions of political leadership in such varied Islamic (although notably not Arab) countries as Turkey, Pakistan and Indonesia.

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