Posted on 08/16/2007 9:00:59 AM PDT by IMissPresidentReagan
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The women are too afraid and ashamed to show their faces or have their real names used. They have been driven to sell their bodies to put food on the table for their children -- for as little as $8 a day.
Suha, 37, is a mother of three. She says her husband thinks she is cleaning houses when she leaves home.
"People shouldn't criticize women, or talk badly about them," says 37-year-old Suha as she adjusts the light colored scarf she wears these days to avoid extremists who insist women cover themselves. "They all say we have lost our way, but they never ask why we had to take this path."
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$8.00 a day??? wow... I hope doctors are cheap in Iraq.
"Prostitution is a choice more and more Iraqi women are making just to survive."
Exactly... it's a choice. ... and I love how the article says it's because a lack of government?? So what explains prostitutes in America? Or anywhere else? Mean ole GWBush causing Iraqi women to prostitute themselves to take their kids to the doctor...
CNN employees prostitute themselves everyday, but they do better than 8 bucks a day. They should send part of their salaries to the Iraqi women.
At least it is honest work. Something you could not say about a CNN reporter.
And only women in Iraq do this? Boy, the world sure has come a long way.
I told you once, I won’t tell you again - it’s a bad way...
While Mom is busy putting food on the table, Dad schemes about killing their enemies. Of course when they get home the women are covered up from head to toe.
Guess who the customers are - PIOUS MUSLIMS!
Yes, those god fearing phonies are having a call with wife's of their friends.
“You don’t have to wear that burka tonight!”
Family members having served/still serving tell me the prostitutes are better treated by their “johns”, and with more respect, than they are with their own husbands, who treat them like used property.
Think that might have something do to with it?
Doesn’t selling unspent ammo that ‘hits’ houses bring in enough cash?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1881519/posts
I see we have westernized them!
I see a market for fishnet burkhas here...
Under Saddam Hussein Iraqi women were executed for prostitution. They were supposed to submit to rape rather than charge for these services.
Hard to tell. Might be an AFP story.
It’s all Bush’s fault.
And this is different from Miami....how?
They work a little cheaper?
Now, if the Iraqi authorities would just allow pole dancing, that would greatly expand employment for women in Baghdad, at least taking it off the streets.
Of course, if they would just lighten up on this gender discrimination in employment in Iraq, a LOT more opportunities would open up.
another CNN “life was better with Saddam” story, hey?
Of course the CNN journalist gets sent to Iraq, and goes straight for the strippers. What you would expect from the Clinton News Network.
Prostitution is a CHOICE. That sums it up and a stupid one at that.
“The team’s aim is to compile information on specific cases and present it to Iraq’s political parties — to have them, as Mohammed puts it, “come tell us what [they] are ... going to do about this.”
Rahim tells the heartbreaking story of one woman they found who lives in a room with three of her children: “She has sex while her three children are in the room, but she makes them stand in separate corners.”
Nice Mom ... no prostitution is a CHOICE. Guess there “allah” doesn’t give them a way out at the Judeo Christian God does:
Mark.14:38
[38] Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
1Cor.10:13
[13] There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
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