from SLATE: >Political stability in Iraq may have come at the cost of increased tribal suppression of women, a front-page [Washington POST] story postulates. Many of the religious leaders the U.S. supported for the sake of stability have rejected Saddam's secularism, "imposed strict interpretations of Islam and enforced tribal codes that female activists say limit their freedom and encourage violence against them." Thirty percent more women were killed in the first six months of 2008 than the previous six months, most of them "honor crimes" involving fundamentalist Islam and more than half ending with the woman being burned to death. Some women are boldly and publicly decrying the violence, including one Kurdish journalist who rails against oppression and head scarves in her magazine columns.<
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