Libyan women plunge into politics

[tabatha]

Showing that women in Libya can be much more than just sexy bodyguards or accessories to murder, women are dipping into politics in the hope of drafting a constitution which protects their rights.

“Women gave a lot of hard work to support the revolution, so why not enter the government now?” asked Samira Karmusi, who is running with the Justice and Construction Party.

The party brings together members of the Muslim Brotherhoodwith other Islamists and independents. Like most emerging parties, it wants to legislate in accordance with Sharia, or Islamic law.

Karmusi said the men in her party, most of them professionals and some like her husband former political prisoners, welcome women on board. “We feel that we can do it, that we can make it,” she told AFP.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/30/libyan-women-plunge-into-politics/

[Arctic Dave]

1. Uh, women in Libya have been involved in

politics for quite a while.

MG was quite liberal on these things compared to say our "ally" Saudi Arabia.


Your not going to call me an apologist now are you. LOL

[HiPointDem]

2. +1.

[tabatha]

3. I have never called you an apologist - it was another DUer

From the article:

While Kadhafi had his own brand of feminism, restricting polygamy and pushing female participation in the workforce, society frowned on the high profile women around him.

Examples such as Kadhafi’s bombshell bodyguards and figures such as Huda Ben Amr — known locally as Huda al-Shannaga, the executioner — cast women in a negative light.

“These negative examples made women withdraw from public life,” Fallah said.