As an Iraqi, I do ask this question to myself a lot, what the world opinion on modern Iraq. It changed a lot especially after ISIS war, but people here generally don’t value the change that much due to high unemployment rates, drought, and bossy militias.
OP what do women feel about Iraq in Iraq?
For 100 years women was treated as the inferior gender not just in Iraq but all around the Arabian Gulf area due to religious/customary reasons. Iraq was one of the first countries to allow women to drive, it was and will be the most secular middle eastern country. After the American invasion on Iraq women’s rights was at decline because of the war, and it’s now even better than ever. So they feel pretty much normal I guess, they even sometimes have more freedom than us men here.
This is a place where honor killings, female genital mutilation, and arranged/child marriages are commonplace. I get that progress takes time, and that war was a major setback, but trying to portray Iraq as a safe place for women to travel is disingenuous at best.
Also:
“they even sometimes have more freedom then men here,”
Wtf are you smoking? Please give me an example of a situation in which this is true, because considering what I’ve read so far, i have MAJOR doubts.
I wonder why my comment was removed by the mods!?
It’s great to hear a bit of inside news. It’s so sad that when war subsides news coverage dus as well. Your post made me realize that.
I really hope the middle east can get the corruption of oil or of it’s system and the rigidity of the extreme interpretations of Islam.
Thanks for the perspective, brother.