Re: Will Americans accept Bobby Jindal for President?
nasser was good because he threw out the puppet king farouk of egypt. This king farouk was a british puppet. Anybody who gets rid of western puppets is good. nasser made egypt a fully independent country.
Last time I checked, Nasser basically turned Egypt into a virtual Soviet satellite state. So much for being a fully independent country.
And in the process, he established a draconian autocracy...imprisoning & killing anyone who dared question his authority, eliminating whatever independence the judiciary and the media had, and rushed his country into a war it was ill equipped to win.
Mahatir Muhammad is good because in 20 years he turned malaysia from a poor third world country into a rich first world country, the 3 richest country in asia after japan and south korea
Malaysia is not a first world country. Nor is it the 'third richest' in Asia...even if you ignore all of the Persian Gulf states...Singapore, Brunei, Taiwan, (and Hong Kong, though its not a country) all surpass Malaysia in terms of per capita GDP.
And again, Mahathir Muhammad ran his country like a complete autocrat...sacking any government officials who dared criticize his corruption. Surely you've heard how his former deputy prime minister, Anwar Ibrahim, rotted in jail for 5 years on trumped up charges of homosexuality?
Zulfiqar ali bhutto was a great leader because he was a champion of the poor and was a very patriotic pakistani, who fought against dictatorship
Are we talking about the same person? The ZAB I know claimed to be a champion of the poor, despite being one of the biggest feudal landlords in Pakistan...with thousands of virtual slaves farming his estate. His party was soundly defeated in the 1970 elections, but rather than gracefully accepting his fate, he basically had the country divided in one of the bloodiest wars the world has seen since WWII. Once he came to power, he ruled the country like his personal fedual estate...just like the dictators before him, and destroyed the national economy though his ill advised nationalization program...while doing absolutely nothing to better the plight of the rural poor.
In all honesty, if we're talking about Muslim leaders in the post-colonial world, only 2 really stand out...Jinnah and Mosaddegh.