Iraqi Women Fear Losing Their Freedom and Rights

Welcome to BushWorld, ladies! From the wire:

As Iraq embarks on its uncertain journey toward crafting a new constitution, Iraqi women have perhaps more to win or lose in the process than anyone.

Since the election results were confirmed, many women have expressed deep concerns about the direction in which they see their country headed. A coalition of Islamist Shiite parties won the largest share of the seats in Iraq's new National Assembly. The parties have nominated an Islamic scholar to be prime minister, and though they insist they do not want to impose a religious government on Iraq, they have made it clear they expect Islam to feature in the new constitution.

Yanar Mohammed, a women's rights campaigner, has no doubt that the parties represented in the Shiite coalition, the United Iraqi Alliance, intend to use their majority to introduce Shariah, or Islamic law, into the constitution that the assembly will write.

Much like Afghanistan where - for all the silly promotion by Bush about fighting for women to be free of birks - 99% of women must be fully covered as they move about. The other 1% are probably being stoned to death by the Taliban.

It's Bush's World and we're just here as stepping stones.
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