[Pen-l] meanwhile back in Iraq...

["Jim Devine" <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

from SLATE: >Political stability in Iraq may have come at the cost of
increased tribal suppression of women, a front-page [Washington POST]
story postulates. Many of the religious leaders the U.S. supported for
the sake of stability have rejected Saddam's secularism, "imposed
strict interpretations of Islam and enforced tribal codes that female
activists say limit their freedom and encourage violence against
them." Thirty percent more women were killed in the first six months
of 2008 than the previous six months, most of them "honor crimes"
involving fundamentalist Islam and more than half ending with the
woman being burned to death. Some women are boldly and publicly
decrying the violence, including one Kurdish journalist who rails
against oppression and head scarves in her magazine columns.<

-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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