Fighting For Their Future (Iraqi Women's League)

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/latimes_ts/20040125/ts_latimes/fightingfortheirfuture&cid=2026&ncid=1480

<snip>BAGHDAD — When U.S. troops entered Baghdad, members of the Iraqi Women's League, a pro-democracy group suppressed under Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), cheered.

But these days when members gather in their shabby office, the talk is of an unexpected consequence of the dictator's overthrow: a decision by the U.S.-backed Iraqi Governing Council to replace the country's civic family laws with Islamic Sharia.

"We had a war with a tyrant regime, but now we have another kind of war," said Aida Ayeedi, a teacher at the College of Agriculture in Baghdad. "This war is with those religious men who think that women are just instruments to bear children and create the next generation."

Pushed through with little discussion, primarily by the Shiite Muslim members of the council, the measure would shift women's fates from the hands of judges to those of clerics, most likely chosen by their husbands, who may have little commitment to protecting their rights. For many women, that would roll back what they had under Hussein, who granted them a measure of personal if not political freedom — albeit one spiked by a constant fear for their families.

[FloridaPat]

1. Difference between Clinton and the republicans:

Clinton screwed Jenniflowers and sorta Monica.

The republicans have spent the last 20 years screwing every woman in America. Now Bush has managed to screw the women in two other countries - Afghanistan and Iraq.

[Mari333]

2. I remember how *bush whored about Muslim womens rights

using them as a talking point to grab women in the US to garner support for the invasion and occupation of Iraq..what Bullshit..I was marching for women's suffrage in Afghanistan and the ME all the years that the GOP ( and Dems) were pouring monies at the Taleban (and Saddam)..
Apartheid of women is never taken seriously by the wealthy GOP admin in the USA because they are run by neoconservative assholes whose base is extremist neoconservative pseudo-christians who pretty much like the idea of women being second class citizens and promote that agenda as much as possible...
In the meantime, woman is the n*gger of the world, as John Lennon so aptly stated.

[MaineDem]

3. Where's Laura's support now?

What an ideal role for her to play, defending these women.

Didn't she pay some sort of lip service to the Afghan women when they were released from the Taliban?

THis is important.

[Mari333]

4. She only said what she was told to say

In the meantime...