Rape (and Silence About It) Haunts Baghdad

NYT ^ | 7/16/2003 | NEELA BANERJEE

[Courier]

</Sanariya, 9, was raped seven weeks ago. Now she has nightmares, she says, and her parents and brothers beat her because they are ashamed of her.>

[Support Free Republic]

See that good looking dude on the left? He's got FAR BETTER THINGS to do than conduct Freepathons! Come on, let's get this thing over with.

[Parley Baer]

Not to dimish the family's plight but has the ny times published any positive story's from Iraq? Parley

[Courier]

Whether the White House, State Dept, Media, Academic World, Liberal Churches, or anyone else who believes we can live in peace with such a culture: they are wrong.

[thoughtomator]

This article is OUTRAGEOUS.

Saddam used rape as state policy!

When did the Times ever print a story about Saddam's state payroll of rapists?

Maybe during the 23 years of Saddam's reign of terror they mentioned it, I don't know. I certainly don't recall them making it a top left PAGE ONE affair.

Notice as well how the blame is laid at the feet of US policy, not at the feet of a culture so rapine it needs to cover its women fully all the time.

Absolutely outrageous.

[yooper]

Gee, ain't Islamic culture great?

[KCmark]

I'd like to see a government run completely by women set up there. Put a 50 year limit before a man can take any leadership postion. No man shall serve unless a woman be above him.

[Jhoffa_]

And OF COURSE then answer is to take away their small arms.

That'll fix everything.

[RLJVet]

Outrageous, indeed. What DID the Times ever do to publicize the Iraqi's atrocities before we went in. I picked up this paper this morning for the crossword puzzle. I glanced at this headline and read on wondering how my friends and family in the military in the theater of operations were supposedly to blame for the rapes, and sure enough, there it was. I know people who read this paper and believe the propoganda. They are as much to blame for the propagation, in my opinion. And I shouldn't be giving this fishwrap a penny.

[A_perfect_lady]

Beyda Jafar Sadiq, 17, made the simple decision to go to school on the morning of May 22 and never returned. Her family has been looking for her ever since.

Why, so they can make sure she's dead?

Have I mentioned today how much I despise pretty much everyone outside our nations borders, and half of those within?

[A_perfect_lady]

When did the Times ever print a story about Saddam's state payroll of rapists?

Well, you know how they jump on unemployment when there's a Republican president, right? Okay, there you go! Saddam's rapists are now unemployed and forced to freelance! And it's all George W. Bush's fault!

[GovernmentShrinker]

Sounds as if the girl's nightmares as attributable more to the ongoing beatings by her parents and brothers, than to the one-time trauma of the rape. She's scared to sleep because the people who beat her regularly are sleeping under the same roof.

[Bush2000]

Why, so they can make sure she's dead?

C'mon, if this were your child, I doubt you would simply stop looking...

[man of Yosemite]

The prophecy of Christ is ringing so true. "And because sin shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold." Love's a hard thing to find in times like these.

[A_perfect_lady]

Well, having read the whole article, it sounds like they routinely kill daughters who've been "dishonored." Let's face it... these are People Not Like Us.

[zoen]

Gee, ain't Islamic culture great?

Actually I think its disgusting and sick. Everything I see about it is gross. I might be stupid but hey thats just me.

I have a big issues with islam and there ways

[skr]

Poor little girl! Having such a traumatic experience and a family that continues to traumatize her. No wonder the women don't tell anywone if they can avoid it. And no wonder that they possibly reported it even less before the war than they do now.

[Courier]

This isn't about the Times.

This is about a savage culture where, contrary to Western norms, the more freedom they have to act, the more freely they would act out their barbarism.