Just get raped!
Get yourself raped and you'll get yourself a free ticket to Canada.
Such were words from President of Pakistan, Musharraf yesterday in New York. I'm not sure if it were meant to be an attack to the Canadian government or to women in general. Perhaps it was meant to insult the Canadian government due to some unresolved matters between the two or some sort. But, the rationality is that this is not the right way to insult the government, it kinda missed the point. Yes, the Canadian immigration law is compassionate towards citizens of war terrorized countries and citizens whom were not given the human rights deserved; raped women in this case who were not given justice. But, I think it's a strength of the Canadian immigration policy in this case, and not a weakness itself. Not only did Musharraf missed the point, but his comment was an insult to the world's women population. It is very disturbing to think that a leader in that part of the world still has not gotten the notion of women's rights, and of the equality which should be granted to its citizens not based on the merit of gender. I know women's rights and equality comes with time, education, realization and fighting through women's movement, but I wish it would have some progressive result. We, women are not decorative sexual things.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/09/16/Pakistan_rape20060916.html
Such were words from President of Pakistan, Musharraf yesterday in New York. I'm not sure if it were meant to be an attack to the Canadian government or to women in general. Perhaps it was meant to insult the Canadian government due to some unresolved matters between the two or some sort. But, the rationality is that this is not the right way to insult the government, it kinda missed the point. Yes, the Canadian immigration law is compassionate towards citizens of war terrorized countries and citizens whom were not given the human rights deserved; raped women in this case who were not given justice. But, I think it's a strength of the Canadian immigration policy in this case, and not a weakness itself. Not only did Musharraf missed the point, but his comment was an insult to the world's women population. It is very disturbing to think that a leader in that part of the world still has not gotten the notion of women's rights, and of the equality which should be granted to its citizens not based on the merit of gender. I know women's rights and equality comes with time, education, realization and fighting through women's movement, but I wish it would have some progressive result. We, women are not decorative sexual things.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/09/16/Pakistan_rape20060916.html
posted by Grace at 9/17/2005 09:30:00 AM
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