Hulleye Comes By!

one of the more popular pakistani islamic feminists known in the past couple of decades, farhat hashmi is being deported from canada back to pakistan. the story has been revealed in the fantastic magazine macleans.

A controversial Pakistani scholar living in Canada who, critics charge, teaches her female students a fundamentalist brand of Islam promoting polygamy and subservience to men, remains here illegally some nine months after immigration officials demanded she leave the country, federal court documents obtained by Maclean’s reveal.

Farhat Hashmi arrived in October 2004 on a visitor’s visa, and has twice been denied the work permit she sought to teach her interpretation of the Koran in Canada. But she has nevertheless established a school where she lectures to mostly young, middle-class women from mainstream Muslim families, not only from across the country but also from the U.S. and as far away as Australia.

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