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“Benazir Bhutto was making a case for pluralism. As this book makes clear, she understood very well the issues that are now really starting to haunt Pakistan – the religious radicals, the religious extremism in the northwest, the militancy which is expanding in the tribal belt, the increasing terrorist attacks all across the country.” Read more...
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Hassan Abbas, International Relation
“I think this is a really remarkable book. It is a mix of several things. It is her second autobiography. She wrote one when she was much younger, Daughter of the East, and this one kind of finishes the story of her life – unfortunately it literally finishes the story of her life. But in addition to being an autobiography, it is also a manifesto. And it is a manifesto of those who believe that Islam is a religion of moderation and of modernity. She tries in this book, and I think succeeds brilliantly, to demolish the argument of those Muslim extremists and fundamentalists who say women are inherently second class in the Islamic world and that jihad is the only answer to the struggle between Islam and the West.” Read more...
Bruce Riedel, International Relation
