Dear Madam
Nobody has held muslim women back other than your religion itself and the muslim men. If you want to emancipate muslim women you need to emancipate them from the religion and from the men. Secondly I would advise you to go on the path of emancipating all MALAWI women rather than just choosing women of one religion. This makes you sound very intolerant of other religions.

Keep it up sister. Chisilamu ndi chiyawo are two different things. from the comments i’ve read,umbuli kumalawi ukanalipo ndithu.

Mp sananene za mitala spa koma miltala ukunenayo aposilotoli ndi amitala amagwirisa baibulo.kawerenge baibulo ukaipeza mitala.

Sounds a bundle of contradiction. Your religion doesn’t allow women to be leaders but then you assert that in politics you can do the contrary. That’s confusing. I thought the whole idea of trying to separate women from men is, in Islamic doctrine, that women invokes the want of sin in men? This sounds double standards. You are changing goal posts madam. In Saud Arabia girls and boys in school don’t share classroom. My foot! Madam you are lucky you were born in a country where the dominant religion does not hold extreme religious views otherwise you would not have… Read more »

I think all she is saying is that she is the only muslim woman MP proud enough to showcase herself in her religious regalia, the others you are mentioning I doubt very much if they are serious moslems. That’s where her arguments come in that because the moslem men want the women to be subservient most participate in politics without showing freely that they are politics. The Pillanes and others just look like normal everyday women and not moslem practicing ladies.