First Victims of Freedom

An interview with Iraqi feminist Yanar Mohammed

Amy DePaul

..Amy DePaul: So, final verdict, are women worse off than before the war?

Yanar Mohammed:

Let’s put it this way. At this point, the women of Iraq do not even dream to have even a small part of the reality we used to have before. We have been put under the most notorious Islamic authority in Iraq. Our monies and resources have been taken away from us. If there was the possibility of a resourceful society, we have lost that also...

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