Bill O’Reilly Says Muslims Will Diss Hillary, but 8 Muslim Countries Chose Female Leaders
Bill O’Reilly maintains that one downside of having a woman president is that Muslims won’t respect her.
This post originally ran on Juan Cole’s Web page.
Bill O’Reilly maintains that one downside of having a woman president is that Muslims won’t respect her.
For Mr. O’Reilly’s information, here are the women leaders of Muslim-majority countries, most of them freely elected by Muslim publics and all of them respected by the latter:
Tansu Çiller, elected prime minister of Turkey, 1993-1996
Benazir Bhutto, elected prime minister of Pakistan 1988-1990, 1993-1996
Mame Madior Boye, appointed prime minister of Senegal, 2001-2002.
Megawati Sukarnoputri, elected president of Indonesia, 2001-2004
Khaleda Zia, elected prime minister of Bangladesh, 1991-1996 and 2001-2006
Sheikh Hasina, elected prime minister of Bangladesh 2009-
Roza Otunbayeva, president of Kyrgyzstan, 2010- 2011
Atifete Jahjaga, elected president of Kosovo 2011-
Related video:
The Colbert Report: “Bill O’Reilly on the Downside of Woman Presidents”
Related video 2:
Reuters in Jan. On Bangladesh elections
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