Clinton promotes women entrepreneurs in Muslim world
Wednesday, 28 Apr, 2010WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday announced business initiatives to benefit women in Muslim countries as part of a broader drive this week to promote US-Muslims economic ties.
“What we’re doing is trying to pry open those doors of opportunity for more people to walk through, more people in Muslim-majority countries and more women specifically,” Clinton told a breakfast gathering.
“Because the fact is that women still have a harder time accessing loans and equity capital investments,” Clinton said.
The chief US diplomat promised, for example, to pair women entrepreneurs in Muslim countries with US business mentors who will offer them up to six weeks of training in California’s hi-tech Silicon Valley.
The projects announced here are also part of a State Department campaign to promote women entrepreneurs internationally, underscoring Clinton’s views that bettering the lot of women will help lift countries out of war and poverty.
She announced the “Secretary’s International Fund for Women and Girls,” a public-private partnership to provide grants to non-government organizations which seek to help women make economic, social, and political gains.
The fund is designed to offer women greater economic opportunities, combat violence against them and give them greater access to education and health care.
Clinton speech at a breakfast for women entrepreneurs came after President Barack Obama on Monday laid a key plank of his strategy to mend ties with the Islamic world when he hosted a summit to boost development in Muslim nations.
The president pledged to host the meeting in a landmark speech in Cairo last June, when he also called for a “new beginning” to relations between the United States and the Muslim world which hit a low under president George W. Bush.
Also this week, Clinton announced the launch of the Global Entrepreneurship Program’s first pilot program, in Muslim-majority Egypt, coordinated by a team of entrepreneurs sponsored by the US Agency for International Development.
“We will soon launch our second program in Indonesia, and we plan to expand to a dozen countries within the next two years,” Clinton said during meetings with entrepreneurs on Tuesday. -AFP
To make matters worse, our country is falling apart, and our government is obsessed with helping Muslim countries. Priorities, priorities…
Why can't muslims handle their lives or run business themselves? Does he run the whole world, beeing president over the whole world or USA?
Has every american president act like him or is this uniqe for him?
Just more pie in the sky…I for one am INSULTED that they think we cannot handle the truth of Islam and that they think it is good to keep the average America ignorant about the enemy we face.
The war of Islam vs the west is on our shores now and these 2 want to play footsies with them.
Obama is the most amazing liar, Mohammad would be very proud of this his student of deceitful jihad.
Lord help us to stay steadfast when times get tough and Obama offers islam as the answer.
Bush did some catering as well. Like increasing Saudi student visas, after a meeting with King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz. He also kept on repeating that Islam is a religion of peace. But he was nowhere near as bad as Obama is.
Whether or not the usurper-in-chief and his S-of-State accomplish the ideological goal of playing God and getting a few feminists off on an exercise in futility remains to be seen, but to think this diabolical duo can single-handedly change the ethos of a 1400 year old, successful barbaric, slavery / misogynist cult overnight is ludicrous. The best that can result of this scenario will be to get more enslaved Muslim women brutally beaten and abused or killed in the end. The best alternative tactic would be to concentrate on getting rid of more of their chauvinist pig males by initiating reverse discrimination powers and providing stun guns for the women.
"Like tag team wrestlers working to bring us down" This is a prophetic and highly accurate description of the betrayal by Obama and Clinton of not only the US constituion by favoring one religion over all others, but a crime against all humanity as well. Obama and Clinton have become the lap dogs of Islamic Jihad. A million thanks to Loganswarning for having the wisdom and courage to expose the dhimmitude of the Obama administration
Yes, I see.
One of my student buddy was married and lived in Dubai, but took a university course in Sweden one summer. I met here there in 2003. She told me that mr Clinton was in Dubai and held speeches, so I know they have some contact and visit business in Middle-East. And I think that Clinton was ex-president when she listened to him. But Obama must be obsessed with muslims….
I am not so sure muslimas want to change the sharia-laws that much. I have talked to muslimas in Sweden and read about their point of view of life in Sweden and in other countries, and they are so hooked on islam and sharia-laws. The swedish muslimas wants to marry under sharia-laws.
I write in swedish, I am swedish woman, but use Google Translate to read it. Heres is a link:
http://hedersrelateratvald.blogspot.com/2008/03/m…
Even a well-known muslima in Sweden says she wants sharia-laws for muslims in Sweden, and she also support death-penalty as in sharialaws because it's allahs law.
And even so called secular muslims in Sweden drag us back to ancient time when they want to have some freedom and be free from islam as much so they are satisfied. But we can't rewrite our laws in Sweden so they are pleased and can live with islam in their own way.
I wrote articles in Sweden about the secular muslims requirements for a good life and as an answer from secular muslims I am classified as a none-empathic and a racist one. You have no respect for values in West.
I have study this subject, also at university, for so many years and I don't trust you muslimas for a minute. Islam has nothing to do in the Western world at all. You can't ever leave your muslim way of life, and your requirements for a good life give us women a bad situation. so it's hopeless.
Thank you sir, and I look forward to your next masterpiece.
There is not going to be a middle ground, it will be our way of life, or Sharia. Everyone needs to take a side.
Our way or the highway doesn't seem to apply to the muz.
Your so right, there is no middle ground with Islam, but what's it going to take to get Americans to see it? Their are all raped up in their lives and just don't want to deal with it. I mean for F-ch sake Comedy Central cowing to the Mussies should say it all. I've pissed off a lot of people trying to make this point and what is worst is the intelligent people I know doctors, lawyers, and bankers who are still believer that it is a religion of peace, they want to think that if the Muslims see what the west is about they will want to hold those same values, they completely don't get how powerful a religious belief is and not sense of history. I know I am not saying anything all of you already don't know I just need to go off on a rant this morning..thanks ..elmore
Well, he grew up as a follower of mahound, his pislamic dad saw to that,so he is fully aware of he concept of taqyyia.
Don't you know that you are living in a dream world or do you really expect us to see pislamic versions of Bhuffee The Mullah Slayer? LMAO
Obama is obsessed with two things, and they both coincide with destroying America as we know it. The first is spending every penny that he can get his hands on. The second is catering to Islam.
Bush opened the door a crack, Obama has knocked it off of its hinges.
We should of learned our lesson after the Barbary Coast Wars. Islam should of never been allowed, to be practiced here in the first place.
Thank for the comment.
Az, is not a Muslim. She is on our side.
At least Clintoon has her headscarf. Fat lot of good it will do her though. In hislamic countries, bints are always some arselifter's possession so its very rare for them to have businesses. The last one of any note who did was Mahound's first bint. And she didn't live too long after she married Mahound.
With images like this, she's got to be!
<img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_J0kJ62BHm1I/S9HOAGU7wbI/AAAAAAAAAIo/3rJ4L5DsEps/s1600/The+messengers+with+muhammad.jpg">
(Just testing the img tag support in ID here. It may not work)
Bints can change sharia or anything else about hislam. Only the clerics can.
At the risk of pissing everyone here off….I think it's a freaking fabulous idea!!
Can't you see? If the muslim women get a leg up, they can slap down their stupid men! They can re-write sharia and be islamic scholars…like me!! I couldn't have done what I've done with out the protection and support of my western men. You guys rock! Take pleasure is showing muslim males how it's done! You gave us the vote, now give it to them. We all need and appreciate our westen men!! (speaking as a female)
Oh hells bells!
Why did so many assume I am a muslim? I made some good points, and one article about one muslim wanting sharia does not speak for all muslim women.
http://www.thehumorofislam.com
and check this out, too
http://azzaqqumislamicscholartotheinfidel.blogspo…
I am so surprised that a woman in USA support muslimas and think they will be free from islam and sharia-laws. Maybe the hells bells are for you?
Why don't you look at what muslimas says and talks about? Maybe you are ignorant and have very little information about the reality we all live in.
It´s so sad so sad to here and read that women in West support womens liberation from islam. Very sad!
I don't talk about one single article that women want sharia-laws. It was about the biggest muslim organisation in Sweden, women and convertits wants sharia-laws and the well-known swedish-born and raised muslima talks for many muslims in Sweden. So why are you so ignorant?
I am surprised to meet muslims-supporters on this blog, but they are everywhere.
So I leave this blog for Chris sake, so he can handle every american women who think muslimas will be freed. Maybe we have more freedom in Sweden to protect than american women have.
I rather lay my power on people that are more enlighted and want to protect western-values!
Take care.
Sorry then.
Arselifters don't know what a highway is. Goat track or camel path, maybe.
For once you're wrong. I've seen a pic from, I'm not sure but I think it was Soddy Barbaria where they have one road for arselifters and another for kuffar.
What you need is a booklet. Something nice and small and easy to carry around a few copies. When you run into someone ignorant, just give them a copy. Have something like samples of suras from the koran, a selection of hadiths and some useful URLs. If that doesn't work, tell them they should convert because they're stupid enough to be an arselifer.
You are correct.
http://olbroad.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/mecca….
Yes, but who built it for them?
Probably the filthy kuffar I guess.