Thread: I am not stupid to make such remarks: Musharraf

Aryan heres more of Musharaff's eloquence. What I would have given to be a fly on the wall.......

Musharraf's address to women marked by shouting matches

From Our Special Correspondent
NEW YORK: -- Scenes of indiscipline marked by mutual shouting by indivduals holding conflicting points of view were witnessed Saturday at a meeting organized thighlight Presiident Pervez Musharraf's contribution to women's cause.
The atmosphere at the meeting attended by hundreds of women was vitiated by the aggressive questioning style of a woman participant which seem to anger the president who accused her of working against the national interests.
“You are against me and Pakistan,” said the president thundered when the woman referred to his alleged comments in a Washington Post interview which quoted Gen. Musharraf as saying that women exploited rape to get visas.
Provoked by a single question, the president allowed an event held to promote his government’s pro-women policies to degenerate into a shouting match between himself and part of the invited audience.
“I am a fighter, I will fight you. I do not give up and if you can shout, I can shout louder,” Gen. Musharraf declared.
“I wish you had quoted Muslim scholars as opposed to British scholars,” said the president to the woman who had quoted some American scholars to make her point.
Responding to the woman’s charge that he had retracted his interview to the Washington Post in which he was quoted as saying that some women used rape to get visa, Gen. Musharraf said: “Lady, you are used to people who tell lies. I am not one of them.”
In an indirect reference to opposition politicians in Pakistan, the president said: “We have introduced new leaders you don’t tell lies unlike your leaders who did.”
“You have disappointed me. I am disappointed with people like you. You work with people who looted and plundered the nation. You are against national interest.”
He said that people like her had some personal agenda for highlighting cases that hurt Pakistan’s reputation. “I know that there are people with vested interests and financial interests who are against Pakistan.”
Musharraf said his government was doing all for women's emancipation and would continue to do so. "Pakistan is going up, and this upward swing could not be altered," he told a packed hall of Pakistani-American women.
The President said women had been accorded enhanced representation in Pakistan right from the level of union councils to the levels of the parliament.
He cited enactments on gender inequality, setting up of a commission for women's welfare, action plan for women's uplift, national fund for rural area women, efforts aimed at curbing violence against women, adoption of a bill against gender inequality, and extention of legal aid to violence victims.

http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/sep-2005/18/index16.php

I don't think Mush actually believes what he said earlier, but boy was it ever dumb.

Also why is Mush saying hes gunna fight a women? I know in Islam your allowed to discipline your wife by beating her, but are you allowed to discipline random women?