This is the perfect opening for a Joe Biden-esque line of attack tonight so tone-deaf, silly, and sexist as to overshadow the rest of the debate. “You see, this Sarah Palin is nothing but trouble. Her good looks and flagrant skirt-wearing are already the cause of international incidents. How can she possibly be expected to lead in a world filled with backward religious fanatics whose every custom we must respect (as long as they’re not backward, Christian fanatics, which I hasten to remind you is exactly what Sarah Palin is!).” Asif Ali Zardari is in trouble with a radical Islamic leader:
Islamic religious leaders in Pakistan have issued a fatwa against President Asif Ali Zardari for allegedly flirting with Sarah Palin when the two met at the United Nations last week during her meet-and-greet with foreign leaders, India’s Daily News reported. Cleric Maulana Abdul Ghafar, a prayer leader at radical mosque Lal Masjid, condemned Zardari’s “indecent gestures” toward Palin as a disgrace to all of Pakistan. Zardari’s “filthy remarks and repeated praise of a non-Muslim lady wearing a short skirt” was unbecoming of a head of state of a Muslim country, Ghafar said during a sermon, according to the Daily News. Zardari has also drawn criticism from the Pakistani press and the nation’s feminists, who blasted the president for calling Palin “gorgeous.”
Lal Masjid is the “Red Mosque” besieged by Pakistani forces in 2007, and Ghafar a close relative of cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi, who was killed in the fighting.
