…looks very picturesque. Mrs. Bush met with breast cancer survivors and members of their families to discuss awareness issues. I remember Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Syria where she also wore Hijab. These genstures do make a quick and suasion imperssion.
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very nice…mashAllah…we should celebrate Eid on this day from now on. :k:
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Its hilarious, how the administration and media are trying to portray as saudis and their state religion as the tolerant sect, in opposition to iran. lol
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saudis have the american government by the balls as long as they have OIL. once oil is gone...saudia will be gone aswell along with all the hijabs, hijabis and oppression. :p
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I don't see this as fake. It is an admirable gesture by the first lady to meet the breast cancer survivors and spread awareness. These gestures do go a long way and we need events where officials can come together and talk about issues. Issues regarding poverty, education and health do make the different.
Angelina Jolie has made several trips to Pakistan, Afghanistan and Middle East as UN worker. Her work has made the difference and trips help get the media to know the locality in a better way.
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acha jee…app mod ho…jo app kaho verna warnings hi milain ge…kia faida powerful te mighty ke sath matha laga ke…behter hai banda bhens ke agay beean baja le…mumkin hai bhens mujra shuru kar hi de. :k:
BTW : she could have gone there to talk about women rights, education and humane treatment but well awareness for breast cancer is a noble cause aswell and probably will not anger the saudis as they like breasts very much. 
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thread belongs to IMAGE CENTRAL.
i my self dont have anything to say on the image it self.
but respected saieen u have the most disturbing comments. 
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When france banned the head scarf, when many government officials made wrong comments regarding hijab on the pre-text of secularism, I am sure many of you objected to it. :)
Media has made hijab a supressing symbol. They believe that it is not a choice. Many muslim women got harrassed and heckled for wearing it in western countries.
So..
If the wife of the P r e s i d e n t of United States wears h i j a b volunteeraily, it speaks volume.
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I don't see this as fake. It is an admirable gesture by the first lady to meet the breast cancer survivors and spread awareness. These gestures do go a long way and we need events where officials can come together and talk about issues. Issues regarding poverty, education and health do make the different.
Angelina Jolie has made several trips to Pakistan, Afghanistan and Middle East as UN worker. Her work has made the difference and trips help get the media to know the locality in a better way.
Awareness about innocents dying in Iraq would be more welcome...
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If the wife of the P r e s i d e n t of United States wears h i j a b volunteeraily, it speaks volume.
Sure...Such media savvy propaganda makes people like you happy while in the back thousands of innocents die...
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and u i guess are one of those ppl that can be disturbed easily. well too bad. we live in a world where you have to be blunt and straight forward even if its as u said disturbing. here we have first lady wearing hijab and our mod sahib is dieing of admiration while millions of hijabis through out the world suffer discrimination for wearing that same hijab. how is this gesture of first lady will help them? i fail to understand as if from now this picture will be used as a reference not to discriminate them just bcos first lady wore it and its a sign of approval from the highest/mightest authority in this world.
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Most Muslim women wear it all the time and they get bashed for it, Mrs bush wears it and its soooo amazing..
BFD
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and u i guess are one of those ppl that can be disturbed easily. well too bad. we live in a world where you have to be blunt and straight forward even if its as u said disturbing. here we have first lady wearing hijab and our mod sahib is dieing of admiration while millions of hijabis through out the world suffer discrimination for wearing that same hijab. how is this gesture of first lady will help them? i fail to understand as if from now this picture will be used as a reference not to discriminate them just bcos first lady wore it and its a sign of approval from the highest/mightest authority in this world.
well to me ur last comment was everything, except for pointing at the first lady.
i dont know about the first lady wearing scarf is a big deal to me or not, but i did really feel insulted as a scarf-taker my self after reading ur comments.
so plz read ur comments again but this time think ur self as a gal who wears scarf.
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Look, I know she's doing it avoid political problems with a rich oil ally, but at the same time, I look at her doing it and think "It can look really graceful, if you want it to, so why am I ashamed of it?" It does speak volumes.
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may it ease the restlessness, if the prejudices are curbed.
and this visit is taken as a learning experience by the First Lady to come home and open up the eyes of her much blooding husband.
best,
Dushwari
First Lady Ms Laura Bush Visit to King Fahd Medical City, Riyad on Tuesday Oct 23 2007.
Breast Cancer Doesn't Respect Borders: Laura
Raid Qusti & Javid Hassan, Arab News
RIYADH, 24 October 2007 - Saudi Arabia and the United States signed here yesterday a strategic partnership agreement that brings together breast cancer experts and awareness advocates from the two countries in a new war against breast cancer.
The signing ceremony, which was held at the King Fahd Medical City (KFMC) under the auspices of Princess Hessa Al-Shaalan, wife of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah, and US first lady Laura Bush, is part of the US-Middle East Partnership for Breast Cancer Awareness and Research, a public diplomacy effort by the US State Department.
During her keynote speech at the signing ceremony, Bush said it was a new era in partnerships between the US and the Middle East in the fight against breast cancer.
"Breast cancer does not respect national boundaries, which is why people from ever! y country must share their knowledge, resources and experience to prot ect women from this disease," Bush said. "The cure for breast cancer can come from a researcher in Washington or a young doctor in Riyadh," she added.
Bush, who wore a navy blue pant suit, arrived in Riyadh from the UAE.
"Today, as in the US, people in Saudi Arabia are speaking up," she told the audience, adding that in the next 25 years, 25 million women in the world will be diagnosed with breast cancer. "This partnership will give hope to women in the Middle East. The American people are proud to stand with you," she added.
The cancer awareness campaign signifies a new pitch for Saudi-US partnerships, which earlier focused on initiating educational and democratic reforms as well as empowerment of women in the region.
Among those who witnessed the signing ceremony were Prince Faisal ibn Abdullah, honorary president of the Saudi Cancer Society, Minister of Health Hamad Al-Manie, CEO of the King Fahd Medical City Dr. Abdullah Al-Amro, Hala Moddelmog,! president and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Dr. Kendra Woods from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, and Erin Walsh, a US State Department official.
The US first lady said the partnership would not only build bridges of friendship between the United States and Saudi Arabia, but also help women in the Kingdom and the Middle East to fight the disease.
Bush lauded Dr. Samia Al-Amoudi, a Saudi gynecologist, for her efforts to create awareness about breast cancer by speaking about her own experience dealing with the disease. "Dr. Samia Al-Amoudi is the first Saudi to break the silence and share her experience with breast cancer," said Bush.
"She's worked hard to increase women's awareness and improve medical care even during her own treatment... Thank you so much," Bush said to a round of applause from the audience.
Bush also spoke about how another Saudi woman, Fadia Al-Taweel, 36, a TV presenter on Saudi Arabian Channel 1, brave! d the experience of coming out in the open with breast cancer.
T he US first lady said the breast cancer partnership program would initiate awareness campaigns, and share discoveries and data that could lead to "world-class research."
She also explained how the US-Middle East partnership program was initiated in its "birthplace," Saudi Arabia, when a representative of the US State Department met members of the King Abdul Aziz Women's Association in Qasim two years ago.
She said the women recalled their experiences of reaching out to 1,200 women in the Kingdom and raising enough money to buy early breast cancer detection equipment. The women began to plan for a real exchange of breast cancer resources between the United States and countries in the Middle East.
"Today I am able to launch the the US-Middle East Partnership for Breast Cancer Awareness Research program here in its birthplace in Saudi Arabia," Bush said.
Al-Amoudi, an assistant professor at King Abdul Aziz University, said in a speech that in Saudi Arabi! a some 70 percent of breast cancer cases would not be reported until they are at a very late stage compared to 30 percent or less in the US. "And what is equally, if not more ominous, is the fact that 30 percent of our patients are less than 40 years of age," she said.
Al-Amoudi said many of the hurdles that Saudi women face today are not medical ones. "For example, in this country, until recently it was widely considered socially improper to refer to the disease by name. People would refer to breast cancer as 'the bad disease' or 'that disease,'" she said.
Security at the venue was as tight as that witnessed at international airports. Apart from thorough screening, both by Saudi and American security personnel, Saudi journalists had to wear security cards lumping them with the White House Press Pool.
The US-Middle East Partnership for Breast Cancer Awareness and Research brings together KFMC and the Saudi Cancer Society on the Saudi side. On the US side ! it includes the US Department of State's Middle East Partnership Initi ative (MEPI), Susan G. Komen for the Cure (the world's largest grass root network of breast cancer survivors and activists), and The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
Saudi Arabia became the third country under the program, along with the UAE and Jordan, to sign up for the battle against breast cancer. The regional partnership program was launched on June 12 last year in Washington, when delegates from Saudi Arabia and the UAE were invited to participate in a three-day conference, discussing their roles in disease research, prevention, treatment and awareness.
Dr. Ezzeldin Ibrahim, chairman of the oncology department and executive director of the research center at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Jeddah, said breast cancer is the most prevalent form of cancer in the Kingdom. Some 20.6 percent of all female cancer cases involve breast cancer according to the Saudi Arabian Cancer Registry. Close to two-thirds of women diagn! osed with breast cancer in Saudi Arabia are in the advanced stages, compared to only one-third of women in Western countries.
"The average age of Saudi women diagnosed with breast cancer is 40 whereas in the US it is 60. The reason is that the Saudi population is young; the number of people above 60 is small. But the problem is the younger the patient, the more aggressive the cancer," said Ibrahim.
More than one million new cases of breast cancer are reported worldwide annually and more than 400,000 women die every year from the disease.
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Re: Mrs. Laura Bush in Saudia Arabia
and u i guess are one of those ppl that can be disturbed easily. well too bad. we live in a world where you have to be blunt and straight forward even if its as u said disturbing. here we have first lady wearing hijab and our mod sahib is dieing of admiration while millions of hijabis through out the world suffer discrimination for wearing that same hijab. how is this gesture of first lady will help them? i fail to understand as if from now this picture will be used as a reference not to discriminate them just bcos first lady wore it and its a sign of approval from the highest/mightest authority in this world.
You are always so full of anger and hate. It is really sad. I hope Allah grants you happiness and removes hatred from your heart. Ameen. Suma ameen.
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dont know why you guys turned this into a political thread
which again speaks of the nonsensical conspiracy theory nonsense which Pakistanis engage in
Re: Mrs. Laura Bush in Saudia Arabia
and u i guess are one of those ppl that can be disturbed easily. well too bad. we live in a world where you have to be blunt and straight forward even if its as u said disturbing. here we have first lady wearing hijab and our mod sahib is dieing of admiration while millions of hijabis through out the world suffer discrimination for wearing that same hijab. how is this gesture of first lady will help them? i fail to understand as if from now this picture will be used as a reference not to discriminate them just bcos first lady wore it and its a sign of approval from the highest/mightest authority in this world.
It starts at home. Let muslims first respect each other. All of your and other guppies post are assumptions and personal. Just because I admire this gesture means I do not care about iraqis, I think this or I think that...can you be any more desperate, pathetic and wrong?
She went to Middle East to meet and spread the awareness about breast cancer, wore hijab something that has been labelled as an opression in west media. It does speaks volume in sense of gesture, whether it will help end discrimination depends on policy and awareness by media and such gestures are important start.