Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Quotes
To those who attack Malala, I say, if you attack one Malala, thousands of Malalas will be born.
Zardari, Bilawal Bhutto. Statement on Malala Yousafzai. The Express Tribune, Century Publications, 10 Oct. 2012.
This statement is referring to the custom of women covering their eyes whenever a man who they did not know passed them. Turks did not ever use Burkas the way some other Muslim countries do, but they wore headscarves and covered their eyes when a strange man appeared. This was a shocking statement in a sexist Islamic culture. Although the process of modernization and reform in Turkey was relatively bloodless, Ataturk was prepared to and did use force to defend it. This and many others made the role of women not only uniquely equal in the Islamic world, but women were suddenly elevated to the level of most Western nations and in voting rights were ahead of most. He used his own family to set an example. See {584503}.
Some men in the audience hissed as she took the podium.
SNCC had been formed to promote equality, but race and class were the issues, not gender. Many of the women left SNCC and proceeded separately to start a women’s movement.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is a Pakistani politician and the current chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party. A member of the politically prominent Bhutto and Zardari families, he is the son of former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto and former President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari. Bhutto Zardari became a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan on 13 August 2018.