Barefoot and pregnant, Caspar Henderson

Fri, 05 Mar 2004 00:00:00 +0000

“Iraq is in the most crucial few months of its history since its formation as a modern state in the 1920s”, the Iraqi activist Isam al-Khafaji told Globolog this week. If he’s right, careful thought, word and action is more important now than ever. And the role of women in Iraq’s future is central.

But first, a couple of examples of speech where care is not apparent. Two weeks before suicide bombers killed at least 169 people in the 2 March attacks on Shi’a Muslims in the Iraqi holy city of Karbala and in Baghdad (see picture), the journalist John Pilger was asked if he thought the global anti-war movement should be supporting Iraq’s anti-occupation resistance. He replied:

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