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Pakistani leader denounced over Palin remarks
Not to reduce Governor Palin to being a mere sex object, but this is pretty damn funny. The great irony is the fact that if you walk the streets of a city in Pakistan you'd notice how incredibly charged the air is with repressed sexual tension. They could do with letting off some steam with some harmless flirting.
A fatwa has been issued against Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari after he flirted with vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
During a meeting with Ms. Palin at the UN headquarters in New York last week, President Zardari said she was "even more gorgeous in life" and added he could see why "America is crazy about you." He also playfully suggested that they hug.
But the tone of the meeting and the President's comments have angered conservative clerics in Pakistan as well as feminists.
Cleric Maulana Abdul Ghafar, a prayer leader at a radical mosque, said the President's "indecent gestures, filthy remarks and repeated praise of a non-Muslim lady wearing a short skirt" were an embarrassment to the nation.
The cleric issued a fatwa -- or religious edict --against the President although it does not call for any action or violence.
Feminists also accused President Zardari of objectifying Ms. Palin.
"He was looking upon her merely as a woman and not as a politician in her own right," Tahira Abdullah, a member of the Women's Action Forum, was reported as saying. She added that he seemed to have quickly forgotten his assassinated wife, Benazir Bhutto.
"He should show some decorum-- if he loved his wife so much as to press for a United Nations investigation into her death, "He should behave like a mourning widower."
Not to reduce Governor Palin to being a mere sex object, but this is pretty damn funny. The great irony is the fact that if you walk the streets of a city in Pakistan you'd notice how incredibly charged the air is with repressed sexual tension. They could do with letting off some steam with some harmless flirting.