Violations of 'Islamic teachings' take deadly toll on Iraqi women

[RamboLiberal]

Source: CNN

The images in the Basra police file are nauseating: Page after page of women killed in brutal fashion -- some strangled to death, their faces disfigured; others beheaded. All bear signs of torture.

The women are killed, police say, because they failed to wear a headscarf or because they ignored other "rules" that secretive fundamentalist groups want to enforce.

"Fear, fear is always there," says 30-year-old Safana, an artist and university professor. "We don't know who to be afraid of. Maybe it's a friend or a student you teach. There is no break, no security. I don't know who to be afraid of."

Her fear is justified. Iraq's second-largest city, Basra, is a stronghold of conservative Shia groups. As many as 133 women were killed in Basra last year -- 79 for violation of "Islamic teachings" and 47 for so-called honor killings, according to IRIN, the news branch of the U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

One glance through the police file is enough to understand the consequences. Basra's police chief, Gen. Abdul Jalil Khalaf, flips through the file, pointing to one unsolved case after another.


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/08/iraq.women/index.html

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Oh but they're so much better off than under Saddam. :sarcasm:

[Baby Snooks]

1. So much for democracy!

Makes me ill. This monster's father was the puppetmeister behind the CIA's orchestrated removal of the Shah, there was more to Iran-Contra than we will ever "officially" know, and he plunged Iran into the Dark Ages of Islam. And that is what this monster has done. Plunged Iraq into the Dark Ages of Islam. All for oil. That they will never get.

That any Democrat, or Republican, would continue to support this administration is unforgiveable. Bush and Company should have been removed from office and then tried as war criminals. Which is what they are. The father and the son. Sins of the father visited upon the son? Sins of the father merely continued by the son. Visited upon the rest of us. We are a shameful nation among nations. No longer the standard bearer of freedom.

If they ever are tried as war criminals, I hope Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Democrats who believed there was political advantage in keeping this monster in office are tried as well. They are all complicit in the crimes at this point.

The brutality of Saddam Hussein pales in comparison to the brutality we have now unleashed upon the Iraqi people in the name of "democracy."

So much for democracy. There. And here.

[noel adamson]

4. Don't forget grandpa Prescott Bush. As Hitler's backer, he is the grandaddy of war criminals.

That is to say, both figuratively and literally.

[Miss Chybil]

2. It's all that freedom.

It's killing them.

[DavidDvorkin]

3. Thanks, George

That fuck.

[flashl]

5. What is 'our' role in the violations of 'Islamic teachings'?

The Rape Of Iraq And Other Sexual Matters

By Suki Falconberg Ph.D.

I just e-mailed the following paragraph to Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Refugees International, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and two women journalists at CBS news, Katie Couric and Lara Logan (foreign correspondent in Iraq):

I would like to know more about the sexual assault on women in Iraq: rapes by American and coalition forces; rapes by the Iraqi police and military; rapes by Iraqi civilian men; rapes of women and girls detained in prisons; gang rapes; women forced into starvation prostitution—either for the occupying forces or for Iraqis; the increase of brothels in Baghdad and Basra as a result of the occupation; the trafficking of women and girls into prostitution by criminal gangs, either within Iraq or in surrounding countries; the way families are forced to sell daughters for survival; any ´survival sex´ women and girls are engaged in due to desperation; ´survival sex´ forced upon the refugee population (2 million in Iraq--2 million in surrounding countries); the trafficking, by U.S. military contractors, of Filipina and Chinese girls into brothels in the Green Zone; the role of the U.S. Military Police in the pimping of Iraqi women and girls; the physical and psychological state of the prostituted Iraqi girls trafficked into the Green Zone for paid rape; the rape of female military personnel by their own men—and anything else you may have seen going on in Iraq.

...

It is time. Katie Couric and Lara Logan (the latter journalist has been ´embedded´ with the troops over there), it is time you report on all the women and girls, in Iraq, and all the Iraqi refugee women and girls in surrounding countries forced into survival sex. It is time you profiled the 14-year-old Iraqi refugee girl sold by her family in order to feed her younger brothers and sisters.

American Chronicle

[tanyev]

6. Who you gonna believe, CNN or Laura Bush?

Q My last question would be about the Iraqi women. How do you see their role in the society now?

MRS. BUSH: Well, the good news that came out of Iraq that the Governing Council has been able to write this agreement so they can begin to write the constitution is very good news. And even though I don't know what all is in that agreement, I do understand that women's rights are protected in that agreement, and I like that very much.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/03/20040308-6.html

Will there be time to send her over there for another magical fix-it-all photo op before they leave the White House?

[ohio2007]

7. Turkey votes to repress sectarian womens rights

the Burka is back on campus! The thought police will be giving the 'uncovered' "the treatment" soon.

of course, the revolution spreads to an accepting blue blood crowd in america...

open this one for the music then

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oudKFDpUlQ

open this one and turn down the volume ;)

hidesight won't be 20/20 in the year 2020

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13PDuXjWvSE&eurl=http://hotair.com/archives/2008/02/07/video-checking-out-girls-in-burqas-now-easier-than-ever-before