USA: KAREN HUGHES SAYS THAT CONDOLEEZA RICE REMINDS HER OF AMARA BIN AL-REHMAN

Rice compared to 7th century female Muslim figure
By Khalid Hasan

Washington: Karen Hughes, US under secretary of state for interfaith harmony, raised several eyebrows when she told an invited audience of Muslim diplomats and journalists at a State Department iftar reception on Wednesday that Condoleeza Rice reminds her of Amara bin Al-Rehman, a wise women who lived at the time of the Holy Prophet (pbuh). Hughes, who is a kind of ambassador for Bush to the world of Islam, told her guests, “Recently I was told a story from the time of the Prophet about a famous man who expressed a desire to seek knowledge. He was advised, this man, by another man to join the assembly of a well-known woman jurist of the day named Amara bin Al-Rahman. She was described as a boundless ocean of knowledge and she shared her knowledge with a number of famous men which kind of reminds me of our boss Dr Condoleezza Rice when she shows up at a national security meeting and shares her boundless knowledge with all the men in the room.” Hughes also praised Mukhtar Mai. “I’ve met amazing women like Mukhtar Mai of Pakistan whose brave example is leading to changes in rape laws in that country.”

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