Iraqi women are still fight­ing for their free­dom which was seized from them in the cur­rent con­sti­tu­tion.
They launched their own Radio Sta­tion called Al Mahaba.

‘‘We want to affirm women’s rights,” said Ruwaida Kamal, 30, a pro­ducer at the sta­tion. ‘‘We’re in a dan­ger­ous period. There are many move­ments, many groups that aren’t tak­ing women’s rights seri­ously. Women are being marginalized.”

Noth­ing new in this because Iraqi women are really active and ask­ing for their rights seri­ously but the news is Amer­i­can women are ask­ing Iraqi women for free­dom inspi­ra­tion, you can see that cler­gies are cler­gies doesn’t mat­ter if it was in Iraq or the USA.

Bush’s call for Iraqi free­dom should apply to U.S. women.

I can’t be the only Amer­i­can slack-jawed over the mind-numbing hypocrisy of the Bush admin­is­tra­tion when it comes to its treat­ment of Iraqi and U.S. women. The pres­i­dent denies the new Iraqi con­sti­tu­tion will force women to adhere to the most repres­sive inter­pre­ta­tion of Islamic law. At the same time, he sup­ports the most repres­sive inter­pre­ta­tion of Chris­t­ian dogma and expects Amer­i­can women to adhere.

An Iraqi leader said women and fam­i­lies must be able to make their own choices and not have “other people’s choices” forced on them. This is a laud­able goal, and Amer­i­cans have paid for it in blood and treasure.

But while we are drag­ging Iraqis into the 21st cen­tury, we are forc­ing Amer­i­cans back into the Dark Ages by allow­ing “other people’s choices” to become law. If the major­ity of Amer­i­cans think birth con­trol, includ­ing the morning-after pill, should be read­ily avail­able, why isn’t it? If the major­ity wants to sup­port stem cell research, why can’t they? If the major­ity under­stands the dif­fer­ence between sci­en­tific inquiry and faith-based wish­ful think­ing, why are we allow­ing reli­gious extrem­ists to under­mine our edu­ca­tional system?

The Gen­eral Assem­bly will soon meet in spe­cial ses­sion to pass more laws mak­ing it almost impos­si­ble for women to decide for them­selves whether to con­tinue a preg­nancy. These mean-spirited restric­tions on women’s repro­duc­tive rights tell us more about the law­mak­ers than about democ­racy. I hope Iraqi women are strong and vocal enough to demand their rights. Maybe some­day they will inspire us.