Posted on 05/22/2007 2:43:58 PM PDT by Cornpone
Islamabad - Pakistani Tourism Minister Nilofar Bakhtiar was in consultation on Tuesday with Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz about her tendered resignation over a controversial hug she exchanged with a French paragliding instructor.
Religious leaders demanded her expulsion from the cabinet after newspapers in March published photographs of the embrace after a successful flight in Paris to raise funds for victims of the October 2005 earthquake in Pakistan.
Bakhtiar said she would step down voluntarily, citing personal hurt at how her charitable act had been portrayed at home.
"French media praised my daring attempt but unfortunately some irresponsible elements in Pakistan presented this noble cause in a malicious manner," she told the Dawn newspaper.
The minister is one of three woman ministers in the Pakistani government.
In her earlier capacity as the prime minister's adviser on women's development, she was at the forefront of moves to grant more equality to women in Pakistan.
More proof that the west cannot coddle this religion. A cartoon is worth deadly riots and ambassadors being recalled. A hug is worthy of the resignation of an official. Etc, etc, etc. The religion is pure poison.
All of this on-going, globe-spanning ugliness in the service of rank error...islam is an abomination and a cancer on humanity.
Seriously.
They are operating from the caves.
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