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

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

BAGHDAD, Iraq (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."

more:

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

[thunder rising]

1. Then the women better figure out how to defend themselves. Mothers are not protecting daughters.

Cause as Bobbit made very clear to every male in the US ... you gotta go to sleep sometime.

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2. FYI, similar threads

GD
LBN

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3. and yet we claim to have the terrorists on the run in iraq

to me this form of terrorism is far more insidious and troubling than the more high-profile acts.