<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span><br></span></div><br><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="y_msg_container"><br>
<div id="yiv2000310615"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><div><span>Seen this??? I LOVED it!! Click on both links, below. </span></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"> <div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"> <div class="yiv2000310615y_msg_container"> -<div id="yiv2000310615"><div><div id="yiv2000310615emailbody" style="margin:0 2em;font-family:Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#000000;"><table style="border:0;padding:0;margin:0;width:100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="vertical-align:top;" width="99%"><h1 style="margin:0;padding-bottom:6px;"><a rel="nofollow" style="color:#888;font-size:22px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;" target="_blank" href="http://www.juancole.com/" title="(http://www.juancole.com)">Informed
Comment</a>
</h1>
</td>
<td width="1%">
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<hr style="border:1px solid #ccc;padding:0;margin:0;">
<table id="yiv2000310615itemcontentlist">
<tbody><tr>
<td style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.4em;"><br></td></tr><tr><td style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.4em;"><br></td></tr><tr><td style="margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.4em;"><div style="margin:1em 0 3px 0;"><a rel="nofollow" name="3" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18px;" target="_blank" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/juancole/ymbn/~3/lJ7WCcXOruo/chauvinist-taliban-pakistani.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email">The Burka Avenger stands up to Male Chauvinist Taliban on Pakistani TV</a>
</div>
<div style="font-size:13px;color:#555;margin:9px 0 3px 0;font-family:Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;">
<span>Posted:</span> 03 Aug 2013 12:38 AM PDT</div>
<div style="margin:0;font-family:Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, Sans-Serif;line-height:140%;font-size:13px;color:#000000;"><div>The <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.burkaavenger.com/"> Burka Avenger is a children’s cartoon</a> about a mild-mannered female school teacher in Pakistan who has an alter ego. As the black-clad Burka Avenger, she takes on oppressive and intolerant Taliban types with the power of education and books. </div>
<div><img src="http://media.indiatimes.in/media/content/2013/Jul/burka_avenger_1374757608_1374757641_540x540.jpg "></div>
<div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2013/jul/25/burka-avenger-pakistan-cartoon-superhero">The concept, by rock star Haroon</a>, is full of reversals and appropriations. Thus, the full black face-covering, or burka, is not customary among Muslims in India and Pakistan, where until recently most women went bare-headed in most circumstances, using a scarf-like diaphanous <i>dupatta</i> to cover their necks and chests and sometimes putting it on their heads. The burka or niqab, the full veil, is a Gulf custom spread in Pakistan by guest workers returning from places like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, and it is decried by Pakistani feminists (and just non-Salafis) as a form of patriarchal oppression. The cartoon only uses it as a way for the heroine to remain anonymous while taking on . . . patriarchal repression. <br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;
font-family:Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, Sans-Serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">CBS News has an excellent, balanced account: <br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13px;font-family:Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, Sans-Serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://youtu.be/JzmXhHbUERU"> </a>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzmXhHbUERU&feature=youtu.be</div>
<div>and here is the English trailer: <br></div><div> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pdbshf4iPE&feature=youtu.be</div>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<table style="border-top:1px solid #999;padding-top:4px;margin-top:1.5em;width:100%;" id="yiv2000310615footer">
<tbody><tr>
<td style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica, Arial, Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;"><br></td>
<td style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;text-align:right;vertical-align:top;">Email delivery powered by Google</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-family:Helvetica, Arial, Sans-Serif;font-size:11px;margin:0 6px 1.2em 0;color:#333;"><br></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
</div>
</div>
</div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>