You've got a hide, Joe.

You're the one who posted that bilge for no reason other than to denigrate non-Western people and practices.

Here it is again.

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=5769&page=0#161288

Dear Joe (Loudmouth),

This is where I got the information from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_political_leaders_in_Islam_and_in_Muslim-majority_countries

The information was given as of 2009.

Here is another link:

http://www.guide2womenleaders.com/Muslim_Leaders.htm

It covers Woman Muslim Leaders and Female Leaders in Muslim
Countries throughout the times and goes up to 2006.

Dear Poirot,

I do my research and simply go on what
I find. Admittedly I should have taken
more notice of the date - 2009 - however,
it doesn't change the fact that during
that period women did make up one third of
the Egyptian Parliament.

But not now, with the Muslim Brotherhood in power ?

When the MB engineers a crisis sufficient to enable them to declare another state of emergency and uses it to shut the door on any further elections, get ready for a huge increase in numbers of highly-educated female refugees from Egypt. And, for slightly different reasons, from Afghanistan.

Actually, Lexi, I'm sceptical about your figures, even for 2009. Are you counting candidates, or elected members ?

Cheers,

Joe

Dear Joe (Loudmouth),

Take a look at the link I gave you.

I'm not counting anything - merely quoting the
figures given.

Cheers.

Actually, Loudmouth, I used to know a woman who led the Greens federally in Canada.

I still have an email where she told me that the reason she resigned and went back to publishing was because of the "men's club" mentality - I'm supposing she was referring to her own party and the federal politics in general in Canada at the time.

I think women have to ape their male counterparts to be successful in Western politics...moves them further to the right methinks.