Muslim clerics border more and more on the ridiculous.

I guess that they forget that they once had a woman as president (where even the democratic West hasn't been that equal). It's sad that they continue with generations of ignorance and practices that DO NOT follow Islam or the Quran!

If they are so ungrateful as to throw the women aid workers out of their country, stop sending them aid altogether - see how they like that. If they are so highhanded, they don't deserve our money; let them starve, see how they like that.

If they don't want help, then fine. Pull them out. Every single one.

If you want help from other nations, don't whine about how they provide it. I believe that's called "looking a gift horse in the mouth".

what a bunch of ingrates.

The most challenging thing about these clerics' letters is that they do not reflect the wants and needs of the people whom the aid workers are helping. Leaving the people of Pakistan without aid would be a severe punishment simply for being born in the same country as a few crazed mad-men with the ability to make a lot of noise.

Hey JB, The democratic west has had female leaders;

1. Prime Minister Golda Meir

2. Prime Minister Margerent Thathcher

3. The current Chancellor of Germany

But getting back to the main point of female aid workers, its Pakistan call. This may be an indication of a home grown Pakistani Taliban movement. One more indicator that Pakistan is a seriously divided nation, maybe just like Iraq, Pakistan may be on the verge of their own civil war.

Its not surprising that an ignorant priest said something ignorant. But that does not mean the government or the country actually banned it.

ABC should have more honest unbiased media reporting than making inaccurate statements like "Pakistan" Bans Female Aid Workers

utter ignorance!!what a shame on these so called muslim clerks. they are keeping 52%of their socity locked up.
they don,t use their brains to reflect on real islamic teachings.

99% of the people there do not agree with these extremist positions. But this 1% always gets the journalist ' ear and is hown in news every where which gives the impression that all are agreeing with them. This encourages these people too, so the next time they come up with even more outrageous things just to get prominence in media.

99% of the people there do not agree with these extremist positions. But this 1% always gets the journalist ' ear and is shown in news every where which gives the impression that the rest of the people are agreeing with them. This encourages these people too, so the next time they come up with even more outrageous things just to get prominence in media.

More threats and nonsense from the so called religion of peace.

THOSE MORONS...DIDNT THEY HAVE MOTHERS?OR WERE THEY HATCHED? DONT SEND ANYTHING TO THEM, I GUESS THEY ARE STILL LIVING IN THE STONE AGE,LET THEM MOVE IN WITH BIN LADIN.

JOHANN DOHMANN,USA

This should, more than anything else,illustrate to the decent, honest Muslim people of the region that their "religious leaders" usually do not have their best interests at heart.

THT REALLY MAKES ME MAD!

We need to stop all aid get on every media network in the world and explain how the Religious Leaders did not want our help. Play their games and do not give in. Wait never mind the media would spin it and make us look bad.

Religious leaders who constantly incite violence are not religious or leaders.

Such views about women are by and large secular tribal views fully endorsed by the feudal lords for their own benefit. They have historically as they do today skew religion as a means of exerting control over their people much like Jones Town, and the Branch Davidians of Waco, TX. and Bhagwan Rajneesh (his version of Hinduism – a form of meditation which involved nudity, sex and dope-smoking – and he did cash in on the hippy dollar of the 70’s).

ABC is fanning the fire of Islamophobia by not fully explaining that such views are held by a certain groups – zealots who in the name of religion perpetrate all sorts of atrocities. The fact is these zealots by and large are the product of US endorsed and funded (to defeat USSR’s expansionist desires) Taliban or Jihadists movement! The fact is the vast majority of the Muslims do not hold such extremist views. The fact is that long before any women in the emancipated West held a high political office – Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka had female heads-of-state. In fact, Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka was first woman in the world to serve as a nation's prime minister. Such powerful leaders – all women in the part of the world much maligned by the western media for women’s rights - how can that be possible? Let’s keep it in perspective please.

While having respect for the individual to follow whatever religeon they wish, I do question the the personal discipline of such Muslim clerics/men. Having said that, we must remember that liberation of women in the West still has a long way to go before we are free from the 'eve' mentality of some fundamental Christians, and it's not that long ago that christian were burning 'witches.'

The dispute was over alcohol and shorts that the women were wearing.It has now been resolved and foreign aid women are being allowed to continue their work.This ABC News team is not upto task.