Not in Iraq
Published on August 17, 2005 By greywar In Current Events

Here is some great news if you are an Iraqi (or possibly a Canadian Muslim) woman. Now that your men ar free to make their own constituion you will have less rights under them than you did under Saddam. Shit I wish that Iraq was a puppet government of the US when I hear shit like this :

The first is the draft constitution of Iraq, now due next week. Iraqi women like Naghem Khadim, demonstrating on the streets of Najaf, are fighting to prevent an article from being put in the constitution that would establish that the legislature may make no laws that contradict Shariah edicts. The second case is the province of Ontario, in Canada. There, Muslim women led by Homa Arjomand, an activist of Iranian origin, are fighting--using the Canadian Charter of Rights--to keep Shariah from being applied as family law through a so-called Arbitration Act passed as law in Ontario in 1992.

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Hamam Hamoudi, the head of Iraq's constitution committee, refuses to discuss the article that worries the Muslim women. He also refused to put in the draft constitution that men and women have equal rights, creating a bizarre situation whereby the women had more rights under Saddam Hussein's regime than in post-Saddam Iraq.

 

Good grief. From http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007112

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on Aug 17, 2005
I thought it odd when I read about the strides that Saddam had taken towards women's equality. They were allowed to drive cars and attain as high of schooling as men, although it was still the vast minority of women who went as far as becoming doctors or engineers. Saddam wasn't being altruistic about it; it seems it was necessary to assist the economy, especially with the losses endured in the Iran/Iraq war. But his motivations matter less than his actions (in this case at least), and his motivations were certainly more understandable than what's hanging up the negotiations over the new constitution now...
on Aug 17, 2005
Interesting, the first person I heard saying this was Howard Dean on "Meet the Press." Nice to see you guys agreeing with the DNC Chairman...
on Aug 17, 2005
Interesting, the first person I heard saying this was Howard Dean on "Meet the Press." Nice to see you guys agreeing with the DNC Chairman...
on Aug 17, 2005

Nice to see you guys agreeing with the DNC Chairman...

Even Dean is allowed to be right on some things...

on Aug 17, 2005

Saddam wasn't being altruistic about it; it seems it was necessary to assist the economy

I agree... it is stuff like this that has kept the Arab world deadlocked in the 8th century.