Here's something which hasn't been reported as widely as it should (although I am not entirely sure why....):
Iraq: A Shia Muslim mob has destroyed a city they declared to be 'debauched'.
Hundreds of militiamen from the Mahdi's Army group besieged the town of Kawlia, 10km south of the city of Diwaniya, with mortars and smashed walls with sledgehammers three weeks ago, reducing to rubble the entire village famed for its dancers and prostitutes since the 1920s...
In Diwaniya, a town where women are all but absent on the streets, many younger residents and some policemen praised the Mahdi's Army methods. People would come from all over the south, and even Baghdad to dance with the gypsy girls, said Bassam al-Najafi, a Diwaniya restaurateur. Women were leaving their husbands to work there. They are cleansing the town.
Police asked journalists not to report the attack due to the 'sensitivity' of the news.
Well, consider it "reported."
It's today's exercise in "sensitivity" training!
posted by Eric on 04.09.04 at 04:09 PM
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Every time I see Iraqi "popular" demonstrations on the news it makes my blood boil. Not one woman is present at those demonstrations. That is not an accident. That is the society the fundamentalists want to build.
Every time I see Iraqi "popular" demonstrations on the news it makes my blood boil. Not one woman is present at those demonstrations. That is not an accident. That is the society the fundamentalists want to build.