NY Times: Iraqi refugees turn to sex trade.

[muntrv]

Is this shrub's idea of bringing democracy to Iraq?


MARABA, Syria — Back home in Iraq, Umm Hiba’s daughter was a devout schoolgirl, modest in her dress and serious about her studies. Hiba, who is now 16, wore the hijab, or Islamic head scarf, and rose early each day to say the dawn prayer before classes.

But that was before militias began threatening their Baghdad neighborhood and Umm Hiba and her daughter fled to Syria last spring. There were no jobs, and Umm Hiba’s elderly father developed complications related to his diabetes.

Desperate, Umm Hiba followed the advice of an Iraqi acquaintance and took her daughter to work at a nightclub along a highway known for prostitution. “We Iraqis used to be a proud people,” she said over the frantic blare of the club’s speakers. She pointed out her daughter, dancing among about two dozen other girls on the stage, wearing a pink silk dress with spaghetti straps, her frail shoulders bathed in colored light.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/29/world/middleeast/29syria.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

[brentspeak]

1. Wasn't the overthrow of Saddam supposed to bring about a better life for the Iraqi people?

Wait, no need to answer that question...

[Fierce]

2. What's wrong with that?

They're now free to exploit their daughters! Mission accomplished.

[magellan]

3. This is the Republican idea of "liberated" women

And if they aren't pleasing and pleasuring men, they'd damn well better be in church or at home cooking.