Iraqi women eye Islamic law

[True_Blue]

BAGHDAD — Covered in layers of flowing black fabric that extend to the tips of her gloved hands, Jenan al-Ubaedy knows her first priority as one of some 90 women who will sit in the national assembly: implementing Islamic law.

Women on the United Iraqi Alliance are meeting now to coordinate their agendas and reach out to women from other parties.

She is quick to tick off what sharia will mean for married women. " can beat his wife but not in a forceful way, leaving no mark. If he should leave a mark, he will pay," she says of a system she supports. "He can beat her when she is not obeying him in his rights. We want her to be educated enough that she will not force him to beat her, and if he beats her with no right, we want her to be strong enough to go to the police."

Broadening support for sharia may not have been the anticipated outcome of the U.S. mandate that women make up one third of the national assembly. But Ubaedy's vision is shared by many members of the United Iraqi Alliance, a list of religious Shiite candidates that won a majority of seats. She says the women on the UIA list are meeting now to coordinate their agendas and reach out to women from other parties.
more....
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2005-02-24-iraq-women-law_x.htm

[ECH1969]

1. Doesn't everyone enjoy

being whipped 100 times for having sex and not being able to show any part of your body in public?

[Anakin Skywalker]

9. But that's in Iran, Silly!

:) Not really. It happens to one degree or another in a theocrazy. I think the American Talibornagains are jerking off over that thought.

[mr_hat]

2. Women may not eye under Islamic law! No eyeing!

[Anakin Skywalker]

10. LOL!

Good one.

[LynnTheDem]

3. WOW such PROGRESS! Women in Iraq worse off. and women in Afghanistan

no better off! Way to go, bush!

And only 1643 dead US troops and counting (1487 Iraq, 156 Afghanistan)10,000 wounded US troops and counting, $300 billion and counting, and hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded civilians!

[Lone_Star_Dem]

4. Just so everyone is clear on what women in Iraq have to look forward to

Take a look at Iran's treatment of women. That is where Iraq is heading. I'm sure the women of Iraq are thrilled about this turn of events in their lives.

[ECH1969]

5. They sadly are brainwashed from birth

Into thinking that would be a good thing because that is how God wants them to be treated.

[IndianaGreen]

7. Iraqi women, like their Syrian counterparts, were free from religious yoke

Unfortunately for women, the American decision to topple the evil secular Baathist regime in Iraq (soon to be followed in Syria) will result in increased oppression for women and girls.

Thank you Amerika for also supporting the Mujahedin in Afghanistan in their fight against the secular Marxist government. Afghan women lost all the rights they had gained under the Marxists.

Women have always fared better under Marxism than they have under Christianity or Islam.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

8. No, that's not true.

Those women already adhere to this. The rest of the women there have had rights and know what they are about to lose. I know women from Iraq who are weeping for their sisters.

[Say_What]

6. Yep, another country set back hundreds of years because of the US

Iran returned to extreme fundamentalism after the US puppet ruler the Shah was kick out too. Keeerist, one would think that Uncle Sam would smarten up.

<clips>

...In January 1979, the Iranian people revolted and forced the Shah to flee. A popular religious leader, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini gained control of the nation and created an Islamic republic. The Ayatollah denounced the United States as the “Great Satan.” Shortly after the United States allowed the Shah to come to New York City for cancer treatment, Iranian students stormed the American embassy and held 52 Americans hostage for more than a year. Iran released the hostages in 1981, but tensions continue to exist between the United States and Iran, two nations with very different cultures.

Religious leaders changed many aspects of life in Iran after they took control in 1979

• Boys and girls attended separate classes.

• Students entering Iranian universities had to pass a test on the Muslim faith.

• Alcohol and western music were forbidden.

• Men could not wear T-shirts, short sleeved shirts, or neckties.

• Women and girls had to wear long, dark garments that covered their hair and body.

• Anyone suspected of opposing the revolution was severely punished.

[Crunchy Frog]

11. God, I just feel so good about our liberation of Iraq.

:puke:

[onager]

12. And no laughing females!

I've never been to Iran, but I lived in Saudi Arabia for a little over 2 years. (The city of Jeddah, for those of you who know the country.)

One night, I took our compound's "shopping bus" downtown. As usual, many of the passengers were wives from the compound. As we got to the bus stop, one of the women told a pretty raunchy joke that had us all laughing as we got off.

Standing at the bus stop, and not in the least amused, was a member of the matowa--the Religious Police. Despite the title, these clowns are not really "police" but government-subsidized busybodies. They belong to an organization that's listed in the phone book for every neighborhood: The Committees For The Propagation Of Virtue And The Prevention Of Vice.

He commanded: "Stop that!"

None of us could figure out what we were doing wrong, until he continued: "It is unseemly for women to laugh in public!"