2007-12-10 06:38:23 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
Wow!!..i had no idea how horrible things were..i knew there was some problems, but not like that..
2007-12-10 11:16:20 · update #1
What's actually happening in that country is that it is becoming a repressive Shiite republic, along the lines of Iran. Women are losing their personal freedoms. This is a real shame because Iraq used to be one of the more moderate Muslim countries. As awful as Saddam Hussein was, I'll bet if you ask the average Iraqi, that person will say that life under him was better than it is today.
2007-12-10 06:47:53 · answer #1 · answered by RoVale 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
What new freedoms? The freedom to worry everyday if you'll ever see your children again? if they'll make it home from school alive? the freedom to worry that your husband or father may be the next mistaken identity case to be taken away by the Americans and tortured?
Do you think that Iraqi women are enjoying retail therapy in american style malls and spending mornings chatting and relaxing at the beauticians before meeting their friends for lunch? A quick dash in and out of the market praying to God that no bombers will attack and no US contractors will show up to bully people around is more like the picture of Iraqi womens freedom, and that's only on a very good day. Rape and torture by other Arabs and foreign fighters is another daly terror for many.
Good old USA, great how you people manage to convince yourselves of the righteousness of your actions in other Countries by invoking that old chestnut 'FREEDOM'. If you are so concerned about freedom have a good look at your own diminishing civil rights. would you feel free, for example, to speak out publicly against your own Govenement. You now have about the same freedom of speech as Iraqis did under Saddam.
2007-12-10 06:58:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
My cousin, who is serving in Iraq, witnessed an Iraqi woman being raped last week. He could do nothing to stop it. He called home to my aunt balling. There has been dozens of women killed and mutilated within the past few months over not wearing the "proper" clothing in public. Some freedom they have other there.
2007-12-10 10:47:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Actually, it's worse than when Saddam Hussein was in power. And it's true not just for women. It's worse for gay people as well. And it's worse for everybody, men and women alike, because of all the bombing going on all the time.
2007-12-10 10:47:04 · answer #4 · answered by Offkey 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What new freedoms? Iraqi women were among the best educated and financially independent in the Middle East Arab states prior to the US invasion. Since then, mullahs have terrorized the streets and imposed fundamentalist religious slavery on them.
You know, there are worse things than an evil secular dictatorship. Iraqi women have taken several steps backwards thanks to the US invasion, and that's not counting those who are dead, widowed or lost their children.
2007-12-10 06:52:20 · answer #5 · answered by AxelMTA 3 · 6⤊ 1⤋
only a fool would believe this way was about freeing women. Iraq is and will always be a traditional country and this war will do nothin to change their views.
2007-12-10 16:12:15 · answer #6 · answered by King Midas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Women in Iraq were more liberated before the fall of Saddam's very SECULAR regime. Now religious fundamentalists are trying to muscle in and turn the clock back.
The following may be of interest to you:
http://www.oprah.com/tows/slide/200410/20041006/slide_20041006_111.jhtml
2007-12-10 14:48:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I just read on yahoo yesterday about all the torture-mutilation murders of women in Iraq...so I am not aware of any freedoms they might have.
2007-12-10 06:41:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 1⤋
They don't have any freedom. Believe me...
2007-12-10 08:56:59 · answer #9 · answered by Done 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋