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Thread ID: 19816 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2005-08-25
2005-08-25 01:24 | User Profile
An update on all the progress in Iraq in Shrubs war to save the world. (For Zion)
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Liberating Iraqi Fundamentalism Report; Posted on: 2005-08-24 11:59:58 [ Printer friendly / Instant flyer ] With a fundamentalist constitution about to be approved under US guns, America has sent the people of Iraq into the Middle Ages; Israel fears modern Arab nations
By Nicholas Kristof
I'm getting the impression that America fought Saddam, and the Islamic fundamentalists won.
For a glimpse of the Islamic state that Iraq may be evolving into, consider the street execution of an infidel named Sabah Ghazali.
Under Saddam Hussein, Christians such as Ghazali, 41, were allowed to sell alcohol and were protected from Muslim extremists. But lately, extremists have been threatening to kill anyone selling alcohol.
One day last month, two men walked over to Ghazali as he was unlocking his shop and shot him in the head - the second liquor store owner they had killed that morning.
An iron curtain of fundamentalism risks falling over Iraq, with particularly grievous implications for girls and women. George Bush hopes Iraq will turn into a shining model of democracy, and that could still happen. For now the Shiite fundamentalists are gaining ground.
Already, almost every liquor shop in southern Iraq appears to have been forcibly closed. Here in Basra, Islamists have asked Basra University (unsuccessfully) to separate male and female students, and shopkeepers have put up signs like: "Sister, cover your hair." Many more women are giving in to the pressure and wearing the hijab head covering.
"Every woman is afraid," said Sarah Alak, a 22-year-old computer engineering student at Basra University. Alak never used to wear a hijab, but after Saddam fell her father asked her to wear one on the university campus, "just to avoid trouble".
Extremists also threatened Basra's cinemas for showing pornography (such as female knees). So the city's movie theatres closed for two weeks and reopened only after taking down outside posters and putting up banners, such as this one outside the Watani Cinema: "We do not deal with immoral movies."
"We're now searching all customers as they enter the movie theatre," said Abdel Baqi Youssef, a guard at the Atlas Cinema. "Everybody is worried about an attack."
Paradoxically, a more democratic Iraq may also be a more repressive one; it may well be that most Iraqis favour more curbs on professional women and on religious minorities.
Source Article:[url]http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/06/29/1056825275580.html?oneclick=true[/url]
2005-09-09 13:50 | User Profile
Yes indeed, looking at the broader view, the US strategy in the Persian Gulf, as soon as we took Saddam out, played right into the hands of the ruling party in Iran.
Brilliant? Not. That sort of strategic thinking would be akin to selling, at a discount, more gunpowder and steel in 1943 to the Japanese.
I am under the same impression Kristoff is under, just as I always wonder how Albanian property rights were a compelling American security concern.
What a farce.
AE
[QUOTE=Blond Knight]An update on all the progress in Iraq in Shrubs war to save the world. (For Zion) I'm getting the impression that America fought Saddam, and the Islamic fundamentalists won. [/QUOTE]