Monday, July 17, 2006

Women's Issues: Iran's President calls for elimination of gender discrimination.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has called for elimination of all discrimination against women, which makes rather a nice change instead of calling for the elimination of you know who.

In a message to the first International Conference on Women Rights and Responsibilities in the Islamic System, the president said it is a blessing for women that the invaluable responsibility of bringing up the human beings has been bestowed to women. He also accused Western civilization of either treachery against women and undermining their genuine status in the course of history, within the community and family or totally ignoring them under the pretext of supporting them.

He then patted one of the delegates on the bum and said, "Be a good girl and go and make us a cup of tea dear."