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Re: Is Iraq a step back for women? [Re: Unagipie]
#4643594 - 09/10/05 08:27 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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My point (and presumably Alex213's) was that just because we believe all women should want to be treated in the same way Western women are treated, it is not necessarily so.
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Re: Is Iraq a step back for women? [Re: Phred]
#4643623 - 09/10/05 08:38 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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I agree with that. Many women in the Middle East consider the Burqa to be true liberation, not the bikini
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Re: Is Iraq a step back for women? [Re: Unagipie]
#4644535 - 09/11/05 12:53 AM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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Then again there's a lot of people in rural America who believe some funny things too. That doesn't mean we should enforce their beliefs.
The problem now is with the shia clerics wielding so much power in the south and infiltrating the police force, women arn't going to have any choice in the matter.
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Re: Is Iraq a step back for women? [Re: Alex213]
#4644557 - 09/11/05 12:58 AM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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Well, you have a point. Half the reason there is an insurgency is because Sunnis are scared shitless of Shias ruling the country. If Iraq was (like 95% majority) a completely Shi'ite, or completely Sunni, I doubt there would be such a fierce insurgency. I doubt insurgents are that hard boiled over the topple of Saddam. They seem to be fighting the occupation because they see it as enabling a Shia rule over Sunnis
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Re: Is Iraq a step back for women? [Re: Alex213]
#4645110 - 09/11/05 08:03 AM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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Don't you like democracy?
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Re: Is Iraq a step back for women? [Re: Prosgeopax]
#4645662 - 09/11/05 11:09 AM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yes.
I'm not sure how Shia fundamentalists infiltrating the police force and killing anyone who opposes them squares with democracy tho.
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Re: Is Iraq a step back for women? [Re: Alex213]
#4645741 - 09/11/05 11:30 AM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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So you would support a democracy even if it led to a theocratic Islamic state which suppresses women's rights by your standards?
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Re: Is Iraq a step back for women? [Re: Phred]
#4646030 - 09/11/05 12:54 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
Phred said: My point (and presumably Alex213's) was that just because we believe all women should want to be treated in the same way Western women are treated, it is not necessarily so.
Phred
Yes, but that's not really the point. My point is that women in Iraq will probably have less rights under the new regime than under Saddam's.
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Re: Is Iraq a step back for women? [Re: Learyfan]
#4646062 - 09/11/05 01:03 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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Your speculation rests on the unlikely event that this government will end up as one like Iran's or Saudi Arabia's. I have a feeling Iraq will be more progressive (relatively, of course).
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Re: Is Iraq a step back for women? [Re: Redstorm]
#4646075 - 09/11/05 01:08 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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Redstorm said: Your speculation rests on the unlikely event that this government will end up as one like Iran's or Saudi Arabia's. I have a feeling Iraq will be more progressive (relatively, of course).
I don't think you have to assume a worst-case scenario like that to imagine that it might be a step back for women.
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Re: Is Iraq a step back for women? [Re: Learyfan]
#4646096 - 09/11/05 01:16 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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dude leary they are all right about iraq becomming progressive. i just heard that instead of everyday, you're only going to be able to shatter your wife's shins with the butt of an ak47 on the first tuesday of every month. also you can only shove her face in piles of camel shit between the hours of 11am - 5pm, monday through friday.
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Re: Is Iraq a step back for women? [Re: Learyfan]
#4646146 - 09/11/05 01:35 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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link please
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Re: Is Iraq a step back for women? [Re: Unagipie]
#4646558 - 09/11/05 03:19 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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I agree with that. Many women in the Middle East consider the Burqa to be true liberation, not the bikini
Can't we compromise? How about the burqini?
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Re: Is Iraq a step back for women? [Re: Learyfan]
#4646701 - 09/11/05 04:15 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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Learyfan writes:
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My point is that women in Iraq will probably have less rights under the new regime than under Saddam's.
And as I pointed out already, you haven't a scintilla of evidence to support that assertion. None. Zip. Zero. Nada. Bupkes. It's just the standard Learyfan kneejerk reflexive parroting of "progressive" Saddam apologist talking points typed into a post on The Shroomery accompanied by the standard Learyfan clever Bush-bashing cartoon/image.
To repeat -- no, a theocracy will not soon be ruling Iraq. No, the leaders in Iraq will not treat women as they are treated in Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Can you not read? How many women in Saudi Arabia and Iran hold government positions? What percentage of the SA and Iranian parliament members are women? Hell, how many women in SA can even vote? Hint -- the correct answer is a number less than one.
I remember in the weeks before the January election in Iraq Swami was scoffing about how it wasn't a real election in Iraq, because the voters didn't get to vote for individuals, but instead for parties (or slates, or lists, or blocks -- whichever term you prefer) who would then send X number of legislators to the national assembly depending on the number of votes they received. It never occurred to Swami that it must be done this way as this is the only way to meet the constitutional requirement that 25% of the assembly be women.
I'm guessing you've never bothered to click on any of the links provided in various posts in this forum to the translated text of the proposed constitution for Iraq. You might want to do that sometime.
And of course, a woman in Iraq under Saddam's regime had rights only till the moment Saddam or his thugs decided it would be more fun to rape and/or kill her, at which point she had no rights whatsoever.
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Re: Is Iraq a step back for women? [Re: Phred]
#4647569 - 09/11/05 07:44 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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I hope you're right, Phred. We shall soon see.
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Re: Is Iraq a step back for women? [Re: Swami]
#4648361 - 09/11/05 10:41 PM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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Whats a burqini look like?
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Re: Is Iraq a step back for women? [Re: Learyfan]
#4654595 - 09/13/05 11:23 AM (18 years, 6 months ago) |
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My point is that women in Iraq will probably have less rights under the new regime than under Saddam's.
They've already lost their rights in the south of Iraq where Shia militia control the police force. I can't see that changing regardless of what some alleged "government" says in Baghdad. Would Baghdad really risk confronting the powerful Shia clerics in the south over "womens rights"?
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