Schwartz Letter to Financial Times: Muslim women heads of state

by Stephen Schwartz
Financial Times [London]
September 25, 2015

http://www.islamicpluralism.org/2514/schwartz-letter-to-financial-times-muslim-women

Ameenah Gurib-Fakim.

Sir, Your writer asserts, in "Ameenah Gurib-Fakim set to make her mark as president" (Investing in Mauritius, Special Report, September 23), that Ms Gurib-Fakim is 'the world's first female Muslim head of state'. This is inaccurate. In Indonesia, Megawati Sukarnoputri was president from 2001 to 2004, and Atifete Jahjaga has been president of Kosovo since 2011.

Stephen Schwartz

Executive Director,

Center for Islamic Pluralism,

San Francisco, CA, US

Flag of Mauritius.

Megawati Sukarnoputri.

Atifete Jahjaga.

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