Ms Sabrina Siddiqui, Ms Ilhan Omar and Ms Rana Ayyub: empowered, Western-oriented Muslim Women and the harm they may cause to oppressed, uneducated Muslim Women in the East and South
A few years ago, I wrote a blog on the topic “Imran leads Pakistan, who should lead India?” In that blog , I concluded that among all the leaders, Mr Narendra Modi is a better bet. In fact, I was once a very ardent admirer of Imran Khan. My admiration for him was essentially because he had an Oxford degree, led his country to a World Cup victory and married a Jewish lady (now divorced) notwithstanding the strong anti-semitism in his country. Most importantly he established a state-of-the-art cancer hospital in Pakistan. I thought he was head and shoulders above most of the cricketers that I had seen in India and abroad. While it was known to everybody that Imran Khan as a political leader was propped up by the Pakistani Army-which has been given a greater right under their Constitution to control the destiny of Pakistan than its Legislature, Executive and Judiciary. Imran Khan as the Prime Minister of Pakistan was an unmitigated disaster. During his tenure, he did something which is un