Pakistan's Rosa Parks
Dean
Aziz Poonawalla, a muslim whose family hails from neighboring India, notes the inspiring story of Mukhtar Mai, the Rosa Parks of Pakistan --and hopefully other parts of the muslim world as well. (For some reason Aziz' article loads weirdly for me, and the text appears about 7 inches below the headline. If that happens to you just scroll down and you'll find the text.)
More on the story here.
Breakthroughs like this are a victory for the human race. I wonder if anybody at The Wingnut Brigade has noticed? This is an important jihad, one we should all embrace and ally ourselves with.
it's too much to expect LGF to recognize this event without framing it as Islam-sux. However, the main thrust of the impact of Mukhtar Mai's courage is aimed at women living under repression in Pakistan. The Rosa Parks analogy made by sepoy is truly apt - who would have guessed that civil rights in our country (achieved only 40 years ago), would have started with a simple woman refusing to sit at the back of the bus?
I hope someday people point to Mukhtar Mai and ask a similar question - who would have thought that the liberation of women, and their reclamation of the rights promised them under Islam, would be due to a simple rape victim's refusal to stay silent?
Ms. Mai's story is a step forward. It will not truly be good news until justice is done - and there's no guarantee of that yet. All kudos to her for standing up, but if the coming trial acquits all her rapists and she's found dead 3 months later, "good news" will not be term I'd use to describe this episode.
An Imam's resignation is minor good news. A Rosa Parks moment is earth-shaking, mullah-terrifying, human-nobility inspiring good news.
Had Rosa Parks been found murdered three months later, would ythe civil rights movement have stalled?
LGF's priorities are what they are. Lets not pretend the molehills they make mountains out of, and the mountains they make molehills out of, are one and the same.