Confessions on a Sunday...

Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues - Reflections in a sealed bottle...

...Here is Baghdad, a once secular capital but not any less "pious", where women had their word to say, now turns into this bastardly melange of Saudi Arabia and Iran combined ? And run by Americans ? I mean , don't you find all of that very "strange "? Haram (prohibited) is everywhere. But : Indiscriminately killing innocents is not Haram. Raping, abducting, kidnaping people is not Haram.Torturing, drilling and gouging eyes out is not Haram. Starving people and seeing kids search garbage bins for food is not Haram. Cholera and other diseases from overflowing sewage is not Haram. Dehydration from lack of water and rising infant mortality is not Haram. Girls as young as 14 selling their bodies to feed their families is not Haram. Orphans sniffing glue in the streets is not Haram. Patients undergoing surgery with no anesthetics is not Haram. All of the above and much more is not Haram but a sleeveless shirt is ...

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