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

[rem16]

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."

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

[janicelee]

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."

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

My haven't we ,made things so much better for the people of Iraq, particularly the women.

[Sumanadevii]

The women were innocent and defenseless. And by the end of the Night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 helpless women wrongly convicted of "obstructing sidewalk traffic." They beat Lucy Burn, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air. They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women. Sound like it must beIraq? Or Afghanistan?
http://www.yogapeace.com/how_women_got_to_vote.htm

My great grandmother was beaten beyond recognition by her husband for voting. Each time I walk into a booth to vote, I thank her.

It's not over for these women. It is just the beginning.

[wheezer]

http://www.yogapeace.com/how_women_got_to_vote.htm

My great grandmother was beaten beyond recognition by her husband for voting. Each time I walk into a booth to vote, I thank her.

It's not over for these women. It is just the beginning.

Thankyou for that Sumanadevii.