After Saddam, Iraqi women are used as sex objects (OP)
Violence against women has increased dramatically since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. They have been kidnapped, killed, raped, and even sold to foreign countries for the global prostitution network, the Woman Freedom Organization (WFO), a Baghdad-based NGO, said in a report earlier this month.
"We've studied reports from local NGOs on women's rights in the past three years, including violence, kidnappings, forced prostitution and honor killings," WFO President Senar Mohammad told Reuters. “And the extent to which women have lost their rights in Iraq is shocking."
According to the WFO study, the most worrying trend was the kidnappings of women, many of whom reported being sexually abused or tortured. "Kidnapping and raping women has become so widespread that every woman worries that she may become the next victim. Very few women are seen on the streets. It was not like that before the war, no! Many are frightened to step out of their home,” an unidentified Iraqi woman said.
More than 2,000 Iraqi women have been kidnapped since April 2003, the report said, adding that such incidents were largely unknown during Saddam Hussein’s regime. "Money has become more important than lives, and kidnapping women – easy targets because of their weakness – is a quicker way to get a good ransom," said Mohammad.
Moreover, the study says that several Iraqi women were being sold as sex workers abroad, mainly to the illegal markets in Yemen, Syria, Jordan and the Gulf States. Victims usually discover their fate only after they have been lured outside Iraq by false promises.
"They told my family that I was very beautiful and they were sure I could be a famous model outside Iraq," said one woman who was deceived by traffickers into going to Kuwait. "Because my brothers and father died in 2003, and we needed money desperately, my mother agreed that I should go."
"But I discovered that everything was a lie, and I was forced to have sexual relations with men," she said painfully. "I lost my virginity to a 65-year-old man who bought me at a very high price and who slept with me everyday until I ran away and arranged my return to Iraq."
* Sexual abuses
The report also raised concerns about the conditions of women detainees currently held in prisons run by the U.S. and UK occupation forces, pointing to the Al-Kadhimiya and Abu-Ghraib prisons in particular. "Based on our records and from anonymous information, we estimate that there are more than 250 women in these two prisons alone, who are exposed to different kinds of torture, including sexual abuses,” Mohammad said.
"I was kidnapped and sexually abused," said Surra Abdu, who spent two months in al-Kadhimiya prison. "But after I was released and reported the matter to the police, they interrogated me and hurt me more, saying I was in cahoots with my jailers." Abdu added: "Is that the freedom and security offered to us when Saddam was toppled?"
The Iraqi Interior Ministry denies that women detainees were regularly subject to mistreatment. "We're Muslims, and we know very well how to treat our women prisoners," said top ministry official Ahmed Youssifin.
But the WFO rejects the government‘s assertions, insisting that it has abundant evidence of the abuse of women detainees. "It's very difficult to believe women are being well-treated in Iraqi prisons," he said. "Many times have I seen signs of torture and beatings on their faces after they were released."
Some of the photos that U.S. guards shot at Abu Ghraib show a U.S. military policeman "having sex with an Iraqi woman," according to Maj Gen Taguba, who headed a 2005 investigation into abuses of female detainees at the hands of U.S. guards. The Taguba report also stated that U.S. guards committed other crimes against Iraqi women for their entertainment. "An Iraqi woman in her 70s had been harnessed and ridden like a donkey at Abu Ghraib and another coalition detention center after being arrested last July," the report said.
Lawyers of women prisoners also assert that U.S. guards had been raping women detainees and forcing them to strip naked in front of men. They also said that these crimes were being committed all across Iraq. According to an Iraqi female lawyer, identified as Swadi, a woman prisoner at a U.S. military base in al-Kharkh told her that “she had been raped… several American soldiers had raped her. She had tried to fight them off and they had hurt her arm.”
There is reason to believe that these abuses are still going on. When Swadi tried to visit women detainees at Abu Ghraib recently, U.S. guards refused to let her in. When she complained, they threatened to arrest her.
It is obvious that these abuses are horrible. What is so painful is that the oppression of Iraqi women won’t end soon. It will also have a devastating impact on the way of life of the Iraqi people -- thanks to the U.S./UK invasion.
Re: After Saddam, Iraqi women are used as sex objects
format_quote Originally Posted by knuckles
Do you know history at all our are you just spouting off nonsense? Name one Israeli suicide bomber that attacked any Arab.
Where are the bodies? Since the Jews are killing so many people in Pal territory everyday where are the mass graves? Oh I get it they disappeared like in Jenin. I guess when Allah takes a soul, he takes body and all.
America gave $100 million dollars to the PA last year. Yeah that's really hunting them down
Wait I thought the Mossad and Bush blew up the towers? You guys need to get your stories straight. If that isn't the case Bin Laden never mentions the plight of the Pals as a grievance agianst the US. He cites us being in the Holy Lands of SA which we are out of now.
Elected by the Afghan people monitored not by the US but by the UN. The US has not hand in that government
Elected by the Iraqi people monitored not by the US but by the UN. The US has not hand in that government
As for being slapped firt by Israelis? Read about Grand Mufti of Palestine Al-Heuseini and get back to me.
Those look like to big slaps to me.
How old are you???
Is this how you think the world truly is!???
Yeah ok mate muslims are the bad guys.... israel nor americans nor the west on a whole has ever done anything...
i guess we muslims just cant control ourselves... we must just like war hey?
Do you think it is that simple....
if a war is what is wanted then why not fight like men...why stoop to using democracy and the guise of media to cntrol this so called war!? whatever...
if your ignorance leads you to beleive that muslims just woke up one day and thought they would make there peoples lives a hell in there own land mate you are more naive than i thought......
Re: After Saddam, Iraqi women are used as sex objects
format_quote Originally Posted by Rou
How old are you???
Is this how you think the world truly is!???
Yeah ok mate muslims are the bad guys.... israel nor americans nor the west on a whole has ever done anything...
i guess we muslims just cant control ourselves... we must just like war hey?
Do you think it is that simple....
if a war is what is wanted then why not fight like men...why stoop to using democracy and the guise of media to cntrol this so called war!? whatever...
if your ignorance leads you to beleive that muslims just woke up one day and thought they would make there peoples lives a hell in there own land mate you are more naive than i thought......
Never said Israelis were innocent did I? Never said there weren't any Israeli terrorists did I? In the 1930's and 40's Irgun was pretty ruthless. I'm was just pointing out that Muslim hands aren't exactlly clean they haven't helped themselves in this whole thing
Re: After Saddam, Iraqi women are used as sex objects
format_quote Originally Posted by knuckles
Never said Israelis were innocent did I? Never said there weren't any Israeli terrorists did I? In the 1930's and 40's Irgun was pretty ruthless. I'm was just pointing out that Muslim hands aren't exactlly clean they haven't helped themselves in this whole thing
Could you pls show me where i said muslims were angels?? why are you presuming i am like you or hei gou? when i see injustice i see it for what it is i dont see wether muslim or american...
i see injustice and each one will pay ten fold.....
Re: After Saddam, Iraqi women are used as sex objects
format_quote Originally Posted by Rou
??? whats wrong with jesus? or undisclosing my way of life?
God is the best of judges not you or i...
First of all jesus (peace be upon him) was not white. Secondly it is haram to show or make a picture of any prophet. Jesus (as) is a prophet, why would there be anything wrong with him?
Re: After Saddam, Iraqi women are used as sex objects
format_quote Originally Posted by ~Mu'MiNaH~
First of all jesus (peace be upon him) was not white. Secondly it is haram to show or make a picture of any prophet. Jesus (as) is a prophet, why would there be anything wrong with him?
Salaam
Sis thats not jesus thats obi one kenobi from star wars
Re: After Saddam, Iraqi women are used as sex objects
format_quote Originally Posted by ~Mu'MiNaH~
First of all jesus (peace be upon him) was not white.Secondly it is haram to show or make a picture of any prophet. Jesus (as) is a prophet, why would there be anything wrong with him?
Once again you are assuming so much...
Who said jesus was white? and who had a pic?
I asked you what was wrong with jesus not of pictures and color...
Re: After Saddam, Iraqi women are used as sex objects
format_quote Originally Posted by Rou
Muslims get called terrorists and hunted downwhile israel is paid money by america...
Terrorists get ticked and cause 9/11 in america...
Salam.
This is one part I would disagree with. You and many other brothers and sisters are believing something that the US wants us to believe. Please do more research about this and then come up with a decision. Dont just believe all the media has to say blindly.
Peace.
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