This is awesome.
Mukhtar Mai, a Pakistani woman who became a renowned women’s rights activist after was sentenced to be gang raped by a tribal council because of a crime her brother had committed, has started her own blog.
She’s been writing the blog through BBC’s Urdu website since July, which serves to inform not only about the violent crimes committed against women in her home of southern Punjab, but also about the daily struggles that the women have to face.
Let’s hope that this will also bring more attention to the Hudood Ordinance mess that’s been going on recently.
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I'm so glad that Mukhtar Mai has a blog, she is such an inspiration. I can't believe that we're allies with a president who said that women get raped to get visas.
Wow - I can't imagine living in a world where rape is punishment for...nothing. Or that rape is punishment, period.
What an incredible lady, though, to speak out. I hope she continues to speak and teach, and I hope many others follow her example.
While reading her blog I asked myself: "What the hell is wrong with men? Why do they hate women so much?"
I'm not surprised our president is buddies with Pakistan's - I think it's pretty obvious that women don't rank very high on Bush's priority-o-meter.
It is worth noting, one more time, that of course that unspeakable sentence had no basis in the Qu'ran.
is this available in english? am i just totally missing it?
Click the "This is" link at the very beginning of the article, Shmana.
John, what does the Qu'ran have to do with what happened to this woman? What does it have to do with the hatred I see perpetuated against women by men the world over?
but that's not the actual blog, just the "first in a series of excerpts." i want the whole thing! waaaaah...
I just wish the BBC article hadn't called her a victim in the first breath of the article. I think it's fair to say that this woman is the exemplary SURVIVOR.
Great news. Courage incarnate.
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