{"id":464,"date":"2013-08-22T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/08\/burka-avenger.html"},"modified":"2014-07-28T16:41:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T21:41:24","slug":"burka-avenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/08\/burka-avenger.html","title":{"rendered":"Burka Avenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XahbqLdCVhE\" width=\"460\" height=\"256\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is an animated cartoon, created by a Pakistani pop singer, as a kind of protest against the Taliban. The heroine wears a burka, not as a symbol of subservience, but as a way to hide her identity as she fights against evil and for female education.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/witw\/articles\/2013\/08\/07\/the-ridiculous-burka-avenger-backlash.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">the Daily Bea<\/a>st, it created a backlash when an Indian news show asked whether the show was \u201ccool\u201d or \u201cconformist.\u201d \u00a0It seems that anything to do with burkas can create misunderstanding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/08\/05\/world\/asia\/pakistan-burka-avenger\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">CNN has a good story <\/a>about the series you can read here. \u00a0And here\u2019s another story \u00a0from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/world\/superhero-burka-avenger-defends-education-article-1.1418636\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">the New York Daily News.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an animated cartoon, created by a Pakistani pop singer, as a kind of protest against the Taliban. 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