Startling sight: Women of Iraq now wearing abbayas.

elehhhhna

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Fri Dec-16-05 03:44 PM
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Startling sight: Women of Iraq now wearing abbayas.

Edited on Fri Dec-16-05 03:44 PM by elehhhhna

Have you noticed this in the Iraqi Election coverage? Pre-invasion they dressed in mostly Western clothes, withthe exception of the elder women.

Now every single one of them is draped in black.

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CottonBear

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Fri Dec-16-05 03:49 PM
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1. Before the war Israel, Lebanon and Iraq had the most freedom for women.

Women and children always suffer the msot during war and under a theocracy. :cry:

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Fla Dem

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Fri Dec-16-05 03:56 PM
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2. One of the many unfortunate results of the US invasion The islamist

right have been enforcing strict islam rule over women. There have been reports of beatings if a women was not shrouded.

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YDogg

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Fri Dec-16-05 04:18 PM
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3. Freedom for Iraqi women is in it's last throes.

Sad to say. Thanks, dubya.

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