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  • Violations of 'Islamic teachings' take deadly toll on Iraqi women

    02/09/2008 6:58:27 PM PST · by forkinsocket · 11 replies · 94+ views
    CNN ^ | February 8, 2008 | Arwa Damon
    BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The images in the Basra police file are nauseating: Page after page of women killed in brutal fashion -- some strangled to death, their faces disfigured; others beheaded. All bear signs of torture. The women are killed, police say, because they failed to wear a headscarf or because they ignored other "rules" that secretive fundamentalist groups want to enforce. "Fear, fear is always there," says 30-year-old Safana, an artist and university professor. "We don't know who to be afraid of. Maybe it's a friend or a student you teach. There is no break, no security. I...