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.
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.