West's feminists under fire from female general

London Times ^ | 11/28/01 | STEPHEN FARRELL IN KABUL

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THE general leans forward in the gathering gloom, her eyes glinting with anger, and delivers a surprise attack on an unexpected foreign enemy.

Not the Soviet Union for invading Afghanistan, nor the Americans still bombing her country. Not the Pakistani-backed Taleban, nor yet their Arab legions, whose Wahhabi fundamentalism fuelled much of the regime’s misogyny.

Instead General Suhaila Siddiq, 60, sighs with exasperation at Western feminists and their obsession with the burka, the all-enveloping veil whose forcible use symbolised for many outsiders the Taleban’s oppressive rule.

“The first priority should be given to education, primary school facilities, the economy and reconstruction of the country but the West concentrates on the burka and whether the policies of the Taleban are better or worse than other regimes,” she says dismissively. “Let these things be decided by history.”

She believes that the burka, which was worn long before the Taleban and still is by most women around Kabul, is not the battlefield upon which to fight their war.

General Siddiq is Afghanistan’s only woman general, a surgeon, hospital director and heroine to a generation of young women who remained in the country. Born in Kandahar the daughter of a powerful regional governor, she is that rare thing: an Afghan Pashtun who is not comfortable speaking her own language and prefers Persian, historically the language of the Kabul elite.

Now head of the Women and Children’s Hospital in Kabul, she is scornful of exiled Afghan women’s rights campaigners and Western feminists who champion their agenda. Her most withering comments are reserved for such vaunted women’s champions as Emma Bonino, the former EU Commissioner, who brought the wrath of the Taleban down on Afghan women when a CNN crew accompanying her filmed women patients in Kabul in 1997.

Of Hillary Clinton, another supposed advocate, she simply says: “She cannot defend her own rights against her husband. How can she defend the rights of my country?” At the 400-bed hospital in Kabul, where she now heads a separate women’s section, her colleagues speak reverentially of the woman who took on the Taleban on their own ground.

“General Siddiq, General Siddiq,” repeated nine times, was the universal answer from women medical students asked to name the person they most admired in the world.

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Interesting comments about western feminist especially HRC

[leadpenny]

“She cannot defend her own rights against her husband. How can she defend the rights of my country?”

You gotta love it. I wonder if the General would mind if the quote were used against hillary when she runs for the White House.

[ResistorSister]

Hillary Clinton wears a burqa of deceit, which is much more oppressive and degrading to the human spirit than any burqa that some of the women in Afghanistan are wearing.

[GeekDejure]

Of Hillary Clinton, another supposed advocate, she simply says: “She cannot defend her own rights against her husband. How can she defend the rights of my country?”

Strange we need to go to Afghanistan to find an honest woman! . General Siddiq. . . you go, girl !!! :-))

[Jimmy Valentine]

Very nicely and correctly stated. "Burkha of Deceit" That is a keeper.

Regards,

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

I just "knew" both of you would not want to miss this!

[Miss Marple]

Thank you. I also note the perfidy of the UN and CNN in causing more trouble for womenwhile the Taliban still were in control.

Hillary Clinton scorned by a woman of actual accomplishment. Excellent!

[concerned about politics]

They know a communist oppressive dictator when they see one.

BUMP

[gumbo]

Suhaila Siddiq, 60, sighs with exasperation at Western feminists and their obsession with the burqa

She's right, you know. Some women should wear a burqa. Such as Hillary.

[gumbo]

Senator Rodham, you forgot to pull that thing over your head!

(image thanks to Hillary's Lovely Legs)

[RLK]

Of Hillary Clinton, another supposed advocate, she simply says: “She cannot defend her own rights against her husband. How can she defend the rights of my country?”

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I don't suppose this will be repeated to any extent on national TV here. Is there any way we can give this woman a nobel prize?

[truther]

I'll never get tired to listen this again, and again, and again if it'd be anounced like the muslim prayers from the minarets allover the world 24 hours a day for at least next 3 years.

[mlocher]

quick, someone offer her a job so we can get her here on an H1 visa. i will help her become a citizen. we need more of her kind here!

[Soaring Feather]

Oh gee, this is the cream of the crop. Hillary thinks she can hide all the evil she has done and is doing. One thing she cannot hide is the fact that she is 100% a phony, it's out there for all to see. Thank you LORD. And thanks to the Lady for saying so.

[krodriguesdc]

I can't resist - HA HA HA HA HA!

there I feel better!

[LisaFab]

This post made my day. Don't you just love it when femi-nazis get slapped down by real women? Especially the very women they're "defending."

[Ciexyz]

How did this woman continue working during the Taleban regime? Or was she just "reinstated" in the past two weeks?

[ELS]

Yes. To paraphrase President Reagan, feminazis need to be thrown onto the ash heap of history. I've had more than enough of their nonsense.

[frogandtoad]

Femanazis ARE the ash heap of history! They just don't get it. They never have contact with real people. Just people who think like they do.