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August 5, 2005

Iraqi women urge U.S. to protect their rights

Topics: Iraq

Early drafts of the new Iraqi constitution have called for Shariah law (law based upon stone-age mentality and Islamic nonsense), which harshly limits women's rights to own and inherit property and numerous restrictions that are far worse, to become the main source of all law in Iraq. Although the drafts also declared that women will hold at least 25 percent of legislative seats only in the first two terms, the women know Islamic law enough to not be satisfied.

In other words, Iraqi women seem to have a problem with such silliness as stone-age Islamic ideas such as:

"Men are the maintainers of women because Allah has made some of them to excel others and because they spend out of their property; the good women are therefore obedient, guarding the unseen as Allah has guarded; and (as to) those on whose part you fear desertion, admonish them, and leave them alone in the sleeping-places and beat them; then if they obey you, do not seek a way against them; surely Allah is High, Great." (Qur'an 4:34 English translation: MH Shakir)

A draft that became public on Wednesday amended the key clause to say that Islam would be "one of the main sources" of the law. The Iraqi women welcomed the change but said continued pressure was needed. The women also are demanding that all international treaties regarding human rights and women's rights be honored in the constitution, and that guarantees of female representation in the parliament and government be made permanent.

Posted by Hyscience at August 5, 2005 11:37 AM

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