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Bhutto also attributed ineffective Western intervention in Bosnia to the growing rift between Islam and the West...
...doing little to eliminate traditional legal inequities such as the Hudood Laws, which reduce a woman's court testimony to half that of a man's in Pakistan.Crimson File PhotoBENAZIR BHUTTO '73, the controversial former prime minister of Pakistan, spoke yesterday on the role of women and democracy in Islam...
Moreover, she said, the world increasingly views Islam and the West as "mutu- ally incompatible...
...this is not true--instead of Islam being incompatible with democracy, it is fundamental to Islam," she said. "Islam rests on the consultation of the people...
...recently bestowed South Africa's highest honor, the Order of Good Hope, upon Libyan dictator Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. Perhaps in a testament to their ideological ties, both Qaddafi and Mandela have in the past played host to Louis Farrakhan, the unashamedly anti-Semitic leader of the Nation of Islam. It was Qaddafi's generous offer to the black American leader that raised the ire of the Clinton administration. While Mandela offered no official financial support to Farrakhan, he did receive him warmly, disquieting Jewish communities in South Africa and the U.S. alike...