<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7c637969-019c-49d4-8de7-3678d925522c/6024C45A-38F4-4BA3-B61C-42FDD5D4728A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://jonathanturley.org/2009/10/15/meet-dr-sima-samar-the-person-obama-beat-for-the-nobel-prize/" href="http://jonathanturley.org/2009/10/15/meet-dr-sima-samar-the-person-obama-beat-for-the-nobel-prize/" style="font-size: 11px;">jonathanturley.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://jonathanturley.org/2009/10/15/meet-dr-sima-samar-the-person-obama-beat-for-the-nobel-prize/"><H3 class="entry-title"><A title="Permanent Link to "Meet Dr. Sima Samar — The Person Obama Beat Out for the Nobel Prize"" rel="bookmark" href="http://jonathanturley.org/2009/10/15/meet-dr-sima-samar-the-person-obama-beat-for-the-nobel-prize/">Meet Dr. Sima Samar — The Person Obama Beat Out for the Nobel Prize</A></H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://jonathanturley.org/2009/10/15/meet-dr-sima-samar-the-person-obama-beat-for-the-nobel-prize/"><P><A href="http://jonathanturley.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/225px-sima_samar.jpg"><IMG width="225" height="278" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-16157" title="225px-Sima_Samar" alt="225px-Sima_Samar" src="http://jonathanturley.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/225px-sima_samar.jpg?w=225&h=278" /></A>In light of the recent disclosure that President Obama was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize just 12 days after taking office and the initial opposition from the majority of the Committee (<A href="http://jonathanturley.org/2009/10/15/majority-of-nobel-committee-reportedly-objected-to-awarding-obama-prize/">here</A>), there is some interest on who was stepped over for the honor. The most striking “loser” in the competition was Dr. Sima Samar, an amazingly brave Afghan woman who has risked her life to fight for the rights of women and girls in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. <SPAN id="more-15946"></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://jonathanturley.org/2009/10/15/meet-dr-sima-samar-the-person-obama-beat-for-the-nobel-prize/"><P>Dr. Samar is the chairwomen of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission and was the first Hazara woman to obtain a medical degree from Kabul University, back in 1982. She has had to repeatedly flee for her life but has insisted on returning time and time again to treat the poor and fight for women’s rights — in an area with feminists are routinely killed or sprayed with acid by extremists.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://jonathanturley.org/2009/10/15/meet-dr-sima-samar-the-person-obama-beat-for-the-nobel-prize/">Most incredibly, she stood against the extremism of Sharia law and </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6024C45A-38F4-4BA3-B61C-42FDD5D4728A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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