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Women fleeing college under Islamist threats
THE WASHINGTON TIMES ^ | October 18, 2004 | THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Posted on 10/17/2004 5:55:49 AM PDT by Time is now

BAGHDAD — Islamist extremists are targeting the city's universities by threatening and even attacking female students who wear Western-style fashions, setting off bombs on campuses and demanding that classes be segregated by sex. At least 1,000 of an estimated 3,000 women who want to postpone their studies for fear of violence will be granted leaves of absence, a student affairs official here said. Guards at al-Kindi University in Baghdad last week arrested a man carrying nearly 10 pounds of TNT in a bag. "The terrorist admitted that he belongs to an Islamic group," university security chief Sameer al-Sumaidai said. "When we asked him about the one who sent him, he replied, 'It is God who sends me.' " Pamphlets found on campus declared: "If the boy students don't separate from the girl students, we will explode the college. Any girl student who does not wear a veil, we will burn her face with chemicals."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: chavez; kerrylegacy; napalminthemorning; warterrorism; wot
Any word from Kerry on this? NOW? How about that whale Liz Edwards?
1 posted on 10/17/2004 5:55:49 AM PDT by Time is now
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To: Time is now

Those islamic fascist groups can be such a nuisance.


2 posted on 10/17/2004 6:04:40 AM PDT by federal
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"If the boy students don't separate from the girl students, we will explode the college. Any girl student who does not wear a veil, we will burn her face with chemicals."

They are already telling us what to do.

This map is two years old, and more Mosque's have sprung up across the U.S. since. They are working from the inside out, IMHO. If they can't coerce us one way, they will coerce us another.


3 posted on 10/17/2004 6:05:54 AM PDT by SheLion (PLEASE vote! We can't afford to be silent!!!! Do we really want FnKerry to run our Country?!)
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To: Time is now

Oh, let's give the insurgents a break on this -- after all they are "Minutemen" and "Freedom Fighters" according to Michael Moore.


4 posted on 10/17/2004 6:31:30 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: Time is now

I have to wonder. Will 'militant feminism' in the middle east come in the form of blowing up Islamists?


5 posted on 10/17/2004 6:55:54 AM PDT by blanknoone (John Kerry, the Benedict Arnold candidate)
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To: Time is now

Kerrry is quite pleased with the success of his "wrong war/wrong place" strategy.


6 posted on 10/17/2004 7:20:07 AM PDT by BenLurkin (We have low inflation and and low unemployment.)
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Why don't these societies drop everything and have the damn civil war already?

You want to live a certain way but some people say you can't and threaten to and do in fact follow thru with killing, and you---do what? Go home? Make other plans for you life?


7 posted on 10/17/2004 7:26:24 AM PDT by TalBlack
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I gues they give up quietly and submit to fascist rule. *shrug*


8 posted on 10/17/2004 7:37:50 AM PDT by Pete98
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Is Rachel Cory fighting for womens rights in Baghdad?

Oh sorry, she is taking a dirt nap in Palestine.


9 posted on 10/17/2004 7:46:11 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Control the information given to society and you control society.)
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To: Time is now

I reject the term "Islamist". It's "Islamic" pure and simple. If Allah sent the bomber, then kill Allah.


10 posted on 10/17/2004 7:57:47 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth...)
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or, at least, demolish all of his real estate.


11 posted on 10/17/2004 9:37:27 AM PDT by King Prout (yo! sKerry: "Live by the flip, die by the flop." - Frank_Discussion)
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Some people just really want killin'.


12 posted on 10/17/2004 9:54:39 AM PDT by valkyrieanne (card-carrying South Park Republican)
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Where are the feninists? Where are the liberals? Where are the womens groups who battle domestic violence in America?

The silence is deafening, and the hypocracy is so thick it could drown us all. Is it not PC to oppose these brutal, vile, woman-hating pigs because they are Muslims?
Damn, but DAMN. Women are routinely, systematically, and shamefully abused, tortured, raped, and murdered in Muslim nations just for the "crime" of being a woman who demands a say in her OWN life, and NOW won't come to the rescue because these anti-woman barbarians just happen to be a common enemy of America?

Listen, I'm not a guy who drags Bible scripture into everything I say and do, but things like this make me feel like we're living on the verge of Apocalypse.


13 posted on 10/17/2004 12:06:19 PM PDT by RockAgainsttheLeft04 ("Kiss my ass, all you liberals." -Ted Nugent)
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide


"I reject the term "Islamist". It's "Islamic" pure and simple. If Allah sent the bomber, then kill Allah."

Oh how I wish Allah were a "living god" like Hirohito. You can't even imagine the things I'd want to do to him with a circular saw and a blowtorch...

I guarantee you that this "jihad" s**t would be over and done with by now.


14 posted on 10/17/2004 12:11:22 PM PDT by RockAgainsttheLeft04 ("Kiss my ass, all you liberals." -Ted Nugent)
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Even non-Muslim women, who are not normally expected to cover their heads in a strict Islamic society, do not escape the threats, students said.

Vian Kiryakus, a Christian electrical-engineering student at Baghdad University, wears a veil outside the college when waiting for her father to give her a ride home.

"I have no choice but to wear the veil; the terrorists keep watching and targeting the unveiled girl students," Miss Vian said.

15 posted on 10/20/2004 10:27:23 PM PDT by miltonim (Fight those who do not believe in Allah. - Koran, Surah IX: 29)
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