From a Reuters piece on threats against progressive women: "Pharmacist Zeena Qushtiny was dressed in the latest Western fashion and wearing a sparkling diamond necklace when she was taken at gunpoint from her pharmacy in Baghdad by insurgents. Her body was found 10 days later with two bullet holes close to her eyes. She was covered in a traditional abaya veil preferred by Islamic conservatives.... During Saddam Hussein's regime, women could dress less conservatively in the big cities and would not be punished, according to female activists. But now women say they are no longer safe and decapitated female corpses have begun turning up in recent weeks with notes bearing the word 'collaborator' pinned to their chests"
Was this what America Bush and Blair went to war for?
(Via Juan Cole.)
Posted by geoff2 at March 22, 2005 03:27 PM