Women's role in abuse shocks Arabs

Washington Times ^ | 5/07/04 | Uwe Siemon-Netto,UPI

[kattracks]

The participation of female soldiers in the mistreatment of Iraqi men at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison was probably the most dangerous aspect of the affair, Arab and American experts on Islam said yesterday.

They warned of reprisals by the victims' tribes as a possible religious obligation.

[kattracks]

Yes, the Iraqis might do something horrible, such as murder and mutalation.

As if they needed an excuse to do this.

[BunnySlippers]

Nurse Ratchett would be apropriate.

[BenLurkin]

"In our faith it is strictly forbidden to have women confront naked men," said Sheik Muhammad Muhammad Ali, a leading Shi'ite scholar.

Maybe that's the whole point.

"And I know that even in America this is not considered normal."

He must not get MTV, VH1 and BET with his basic cable.

[dandi]

Seems nothing much "shocks" some of these people unless it's perpetrated by an infidel.

"What? An adultress?! Stone the little trollop to death!"

[MEG33]

They may shoot rockets ,grenades,place road bombs or car bombs.They might shoot our troops from rooftops,they may burn trucks and humvees,mutilate and dismember burned bodies,display them on a bridge structure.They may capture a civilian and execute him.Oh my..they do that now.

[Straight Vermonter]

A very interesting take on the role of women in this incident here.

[Michael Barnes]

I find it funny overall..The more play this whole "abuse" thing gets, the "shock" by arabs over all this, I can't help but thinking what utter cowards and p*ssies arab men of this day are being portrayed as. I mean c'mon, these guys want to think of themselves as macho and all that? But they can't handle a little bit of hazing (which is all that this is)?

Wussies.

[Anti-Bubba182]

This ties in with the Charles Krauthammer piece below:

This war is also about sex

Islamists and many of the Iraqi area tribes have an extreme male dominated culture. Democracy, in any form successfully established must inevitably weaken that culture. This may be the marrow of resistance to it.

[LdSentinal]

Yet if Palestinian mothers blow themseleves up in order to kill Jews, is this considered normal to Arabs?

That's a rhetorical question by the way.

[DoughtyOne]

It's getting to the point that I have to ask, which is the bigger abuse, the events we saw in photos, or the over-reaction to them? Some are comparing the US troops to the NAZI SS. If that isn't the most vulgar abuse of stereotypes in a long time,I don't know what is.

By overplaying what actually took place, the idiots that do so are making the actual events appear less and less significant.

I don't like what happened, but the socialist press has essentially gone stark raving nuts, in their attempt to take down Bush, and kill our war effort.

Osama Bin Laden must be having a field day. Thanks Kattie! Thanks Dan. Thanks Peter. Thanks Tom. Thanks CNN. Thanks NY Times. Thanks Washington Post. Bin Laden sends his best.

[Texasforever]

You do know that this girl is already under a death sentence don't you? Good God people let this kid alone. She will get a minimum of 10 years hard labor and when released be on the hit list of some damned Muslim Fatwa.

[dennisw]

Pfc. Lynndie R. England shown in a December 2003 family photograph.

 

Heh! These Islami nasties are used to raping, slapping around women and otherwise abusing them with little consequence. So they go nutso when the tables are turned and photographed. And the Islami would rather be burned by napalm than lead around on a lease by the infamous Lynndie England.

[texasbluebell]

She's pregnant too, I've heard today on the radio.

[dennisw]

leash!!

[OldFriend]

Have they expressed any horror at sending women suicide bombers?

Have they expressed horror at sending teenagers to blow themselves and innocent civilians to kingdom come?

[OldFriend]

The dems in our country think getting naked in a pile is worse than being buried alive, set afair, being beheaded, or working in a Chinese Embassy that is 'accidently' blown up.

Something wrong here, no?

[Texasforever]

She's pregnant too, I've heard today on the radio.

People are going to have her blood on their hands. Tell me this. How many of those pictured in those photos have had their names and addresses published other than her? She is the face that everyone is focusing on she is now and forever subject to “Islamic justice”.

[LibWhacker]

"What if a major Sunni tribe decided to take reprisals against America, or American prisoners?"

It'd be good because then we'd have an excuse to exterminate a major Sunni tribe.

[John Lenin]

Kerry lost 4% overnight on Rasmussen. Never interrupt the enemy when they are shooting each other in the head.