Death to all Iraqi women who did not cover their heads

Monday, October 25, 2004

This is predictable behaviour from members of the ROP. Note that non-Muslim women are included. From AsiaNews.


Mosul (AsiaNews) – Violence against women and Christians and threats of forced islamisation are growing in Mosul. At the beginning of Ramadan, a flyer started appearing at Mosul University promising “death to all Iraqi women who did not cover their heads”. It was signed by a shadowy group calling itself the Mujahideen Parliament representing six armed groups: ‘Monotheism and martyrs’, the ‘Army of Sunnah members’, ‘Mujahideen Squads’, the ‘Islamic army’, the ‘Secret Islamic army’ and the ‘Sunnah members group’. It warned women against wearing make-up and Western-style clothes. “We will follow transgressors to their homes,” it said, “and shall not hesitate from striking you”.

A few days ago, two young women were attacked for not wearing a head cover in a Mosul market. A syringe containing nitric acid—a corrosive liquid inorganic acid— was sprayed onto their faces.

A process of islamisation of cultural and social mores similar to that imposed by the Talebans in Afghanistan or Khomeiny’s pasdarans in Iran is underway and its main targets are university students. Young Christian female students are especially singled out. In another flyer signed by a group calling itself the “phalanxes to settle scores with collaborators and spies”, Christians are accused of spreading “corruption and shamelessness in the streets”. They will “suffer violence and persecution in their homes and their churches” if they do not stop “cooperating with the infidel invader”.