Female Fighter Pilots in a Conservative Islamic Nation.

[safar]

Pakistan's first female fighter pilots:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4533367.stm

Pakistan's first women fighter pilots

By Zaffar Abbas
BBC News, Islamabad

The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) academy has been all-male for more than 55 years - but now it is going through major change.

Women are now allowed to enrol on its aerospace engineering and fighter pilot programmes and are doing rather well.

To the great surprise of many men, some of the female recruits will soon start flying jet-engine planes.

Male cadets are having to come to terms with the fact that masculinity itself is no longer a condition for reaching this prestigious institute.

[...click the bbc link for the rest...]

[coolpharess]

hey salam safar ..
a question do you prefer your country women over strangers?

[ghost_of_theo]

Originally posted by coolpharess
hey salam safar ..
a question do you prefer your country women over strangers?

A woman gave you life, Coolio. You shouldn't hate them.

[ghost_of_theo]

Iranian Volunteers Training for Attacks By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer
Thu May 12, 9:19 PM ET



TEHRAN, Iran - More than 200 young men and women presented themselves Thursday as volunteers to carry out suicide bomb attacks against Americans in Iraq and against Israelis.

The meeting was organized at Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery, south of Tehran, by the Headquarters for Commemorating Martyrs of the Global Islamic Movement, a shadowy group that has sought volunteers for attacks in Iraq and Israel since last year.

It was the third such ceremony that the group has held, but there has been no independent confirmation any of its volunteers has carried out a bombing.

Most of those attending Thursday's meeting, half of them women, were members of the Basij militia, a hard-line paramilitary group, and have already had military training. But the movement says it provides more training for suicide attacks.

The movement's spokesman, Mohammad Ali Samadi, told the audience that the volunteers were preparing for "martyrdom attacks against occupiers of Palestine, the assassination of (British author) apostate Salman Rushdie and attacks against occupiers of holy places (in Iraq)."

The volunteers, who chanted "Allahu akbar" — "God is great" — and "Death to America," wore white shrouds symbolizing their willingness to die and headbands with the slogan "There is no Allah but the Almighty." No weapons or explosives were visible at the ceremony.

The two previous such ceremonies — in December and April — each had 200 volunteers.

The Iranian government has distanced itself from the organization, but the group has occasionally used buildings belonging to semi-official hard-line organizations. Certain hard-line lawmakers and some commanders of the elite Revolutionary Guards have spoken in support of the movement.

The volunteers were given metal name plates to identify them after they've carried out attacks and presented wills to Samadi. They refused to show their will to reporters.

One woman, who only gave her first name Zahra, said a "sense of obligation" encouraged her to leave her family and become a suicide bomber.



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You better watch what you say to these women, Cooltrollio. They have plenty of room on their list to add your name.

[-theTruth-]

I am glad to see women being given their rights again within the scope of Islam. Women were not just Pilots but were commandors whenever possible in the many of the battles in the past but due to men lack of understanding and greed they were denied that right that is clearly stated in the their own verse(verse 4) The "woman"