Female students in fear as Shias push for headscarves

[_TJ_]

Female students in fear as Shias push for headscarves

Rory Carroll in Baghdad
Tuesday March 29, 2005
The Guardian

Female students strolled in the balmy spring afternoon through the grounds of the humanities faculty at Baghdad University yesterday oblivious to the watching man in black.

"There is a fire inside me when I see them. You could throw ice into my chest and still you would not cool it down," said Thi al-Faqar Jassim, 25, his eyes following women with uncovered heads.

He did not know who they were but knew what they were: flouters of his strict version of Shia Islam. "It is not right, they should wear the headscarf."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1447173,00.html

[TomClash]

1. So what?

Oil's cruisin' to $60 a barrel!

Military spending's joltin' to over $500b!

We're killin' ragheads!

Who cares if a few girlies gotta wear some headgear?

This is Empire!

[Vladimir]

2. Welcome to democracy n/t

[Vladimir]

3. Dupe n/t

[scarletlib]

4. gw and his outlaw gang have hurt so many women

with his wars and policies. As a woman this just makes me want to scream.

How long must the women of this world suffer under the paternalistic tyranny of patriarchal politics?

Where are all the real men who aren't afraid to acknowledge the humanity and equality of the female gender?

[yellowcanine]

5. "There is a fire inside me when I see them." Someone show the young man

the cold showers.