An article in the Chicago Tribune talks about how Iraqi women fear losing their rights in a new, non-secular Iraq. Never having had to cover up my body in a shapeless bag in order to walk down the street in peace, I can only try to imagine what it must be like to contemplate the new "democracy" these women are facing. Are they better off? Are we?
Our home-grown fundamentalists probably don't think this is such a big deal. Compared to getting your head cut off, it's not. And no one ever said that democracy would automatically advance the human condition, did they? It merely gives you a tool to do so.
At least I hope so. Ask me again in four years.
1 comment:
I'm hoping along with you.
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