farquar
04-15-2005, 01:47 PM
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Almost a third of the members of Iraq's new parliament are women, one of the highest proportions in the world, but that doesn't mean full-blown Western-style rights are at hand. Many of the women are conservatives who want Islamic law to enforce the veil and all that goes with it. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050415/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_women :huge: