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We Must Stand Together Against the Women-Killing Gangs

category international | gender and sexuality | other press author Tuesday December 18, 2007 13:59author by pat c Report this post to the editors

A report below by the Iraq Freedom Congress on the continuing attacks on women by Islamist gangs. But IFC point out that the occupation forces bear full responsibility for the practices of these gangs.

Unidentified gangs began to commit a series of organized crimes and killing many women in various cities in Iraq, particularly in Basra where more than 40 women are said to have been killed in the last 5 months. In addition to those crimes, these gangs threatened unveiled women to follow Islamic law and start wearing head scarf otherwise facing the severe consequences.

These sorts of acts reveal that there are religious groups behind such crimes who desperately attempt to impose Islamic laws on society. Such practices and atrocities are the backdrop of declining power of these groups after four years of authority that was based on militias who are used for looting, theft, corruption and assassinations of their opponents. These groups are the product of the occupation that established a ground for such crimes and unleashed their viciousness. Therefore the occupation forces bear full responsibility for the practices of these gangs.

Iraq Freedom Congress condemn such vicious acts and calls on all its chapters across Iraq to form the safety force to protect women and stand against these criminals and drive them back to the caves where they came from.

Iraq Freedom Congress
amjad.fwcui@gmail.com


Full text at:
http://www.ifcongress.com/English/News/2007/1207/on-wom...g.htm

Related Link: http://www.ifcongress.com/English/News/2007/1207/on-woman-killing.htm
author by pat cpublication date Mon Jan 07, 2008 15:16author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Heres a report on the continuing struggle to defend womems rights and even their lives in Iraq. Full text at link.

As part of the campaign launched by IFC against the killing of women that has recently become a serious concerning issue in Iraq, IFC Women's Bureau held press conference on December 15, 2007 in the city of Kirkuk. The event was led by Firyal Akbar; bureau chief and Ajeeba Majeed; female activist, and attended by Kurdish and Arab satellite TV stations, and a number of representatives of women's organizations and activists in the city.

Mrs. Akbar opened her speech by reading the IFC statement on this serious issue and spoke in detail about the widespread killing of women in Iraq and stressed that IFC will not sit and let this issue grow without response. She said that IFC will work to protect women wherever its chapters operate by confronting the mobsters who kill women. She added that this conference is the beginning of the movement and will see other cities join this campaign. The event has had strong political repercussions.


Related Link: http://www.ifcongress.com/English/News/2007/1207/ifc-woman-kirkuk-press.htm
author by Scepticpublication date Mon Jan 07, 2008 20:08author address author phone Report this post to the editors

“THEREFORE THE OCCUPATION FORCES BEAR FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE PRACTICES OF THESE GANGS.”

There are a few twirls of logic in reaching the conclusion that the US is responsible for the actions of the vicious Islamist gangs. The US is the very antitheses of Islamist gangs which are the mortal enemies of any reasonable notion of freedom, goodness or life. The moral responsibility for these acts lie primary with those who carry them out – not with those who are trying to stop them.

author by the diggerpublication date Wed Jan 09, 2008 14:53author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I think you may be missing the point.

The arrival of the US forces lead to some women getting ideas above their station, and had to be cut back down to size by the Islamofascists to remind them of their true place in society.

Similarly, think of the terrible burden Afghanistan is now bearing with hundreds of thousands of women free to be educated, to vote, to work etcetera. Lets pray for the day the crusaders leave to they can be put back in their box.

Allah be praised. Ahem.

author by pat cpublication date Wed Jan 09, 2008 17:48author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Report below on IFC meeting with the UN. Full text at link.

A delegation of the Iraqi Freedom Congress met with United Nations Human Rights officials in Baghdad. The meeting lasted nearly two hours and discussed many urgent issues such as: Iraqi refugees at home and abroad and their suffering, women's rights and their misery, workers rights, which are part of human rights, indiscriminate arrests and the non- humane treatment of prisoners and detainees.

Said Nima (IFC) talked about the horror committed against women, especially the killings in Basra which in turn spread to Najaf, Karbala and to Iraqi Kurdistan as; he delivered IFC report as well and its statements in this regard.

Related Link: http://www.ifcongress.com/English/News/2007/1207/ifc-un-hrc.htm
 
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