Iraq

Articles

• In Iraq, religious ‘pleasure marriages’ are a front for child prostitution
  6 October, by siawi3

  BBC investigation exposes Shia clerics in Baghdad advising men on how to abuse girls

• En Irak, la contestation fait près de 100 morts ; le premier ministre fragilisé
  6 octobre, par siawi3

  Les manifestants expriment un rejet de l’ensemble de la classe politique au pouvoir et se disent déterminés à poursuivre le mouvement « jusqu’à la chute du régime ». Mobilisés depuis mardi sans le soutien d’aucune organisation politique ou religieuse, ils expriment un rejet de l’ensemble de la classe politique au pouvoir depuis l’invasion américaine de 2003, accusée de détourner l’argent public et d’instrumentaliser le confessionnalisme à des fins politiques.

• Iraqis take to the streets demanding better governance
  6 October, by siawi3

  Thousands of people across the country are demonstrating against the government led by Adel Abdul Mahdi for its failure to provide jobs, prevent corruption and improve the quality of basic services in Iraq. Iraq, with a population of almost 38 million, is struggling to provide jobs to its university-educated youth despite being rich in oil resources. The majority of its people are aged below 30. However, the unemployment rate among the youth is as high as 25%. Even by conservative estimates, the poverty rate in the country has increased in recent times to more than 23%,

• siawi.org interview with Yanar Mohammed, Iraq
  2 September 2013, by siawi

  A video recording of Yanar Mohamed from Iraq that was conducted by Marieme Helie Lucas in December 2008. This is part of wider a series of video interviews with feminists on secularism, fundamentalism(s) and on women’s rights being compiled at Secularism Is A Women’s Issue (siawi.org). Produced by Marieme Helie Lucas

• French jihadists to stand trial in Iraq
  25 February, by siawi3

  Iraqi courts will prosecute 13 French citizens captured while fighting for the Islamic State jihadist group in Syria, Iraq’s President Barham Saleh said Monday.

• L’Irak va juger treize djihadistes présumés français capturés en Syrie
  25 février, par siawi3

  Une décision lourde de sens alors que l’avenir des djihadistes étrangers détenus en Syrie, et dont les pays d’origines ne savent que faire, vire au casse-tête.

• Iraq : La colossale richesse de l’Etat islamique
  16 septembre 2014, par siawi3

  Exploitation du pétrole, racket, rançons… L’organisation possède assez d’argent pour payer correctement ses dizaines de milliers de combattants.

• USA: Why the Invasion of Iraq Was the Single Worst Foreign Policy Decision in American History
  8 March 2013, by siawi3

  By invading Iraq, the US did more to destabilize the Middle East than we could possibly have imagined at the time. We wanted to leave Iraq (and Afghanistan) stable to advance American goals. Most of the rest of the Middle East was tucked in for a long sleep with dictators reliable enough to maintain stability. Afghanistan fell apart and Iraq imploded. Inside Iraq, the forces of Sunni-Shia sectarian conflict had been unleashed by the US invasion. Iran emerged from the US decade in Iraq economically more powerful, while the US managed to remove one of Iran’s strategic counterbalances, Saddam Hussein, replacing him with a government run by Nouri al-Malaki, who had once found asylum in Tehran.

• Iraq: Ten Years On...
  14 April 2013, by siawi3

  We’re learning that the masks are off. No one is ashamed of the hypocrisy anymore. You can claim to be against religious extremism (like in Afghanistan), but promoting religious extremism somewhere else (like in Iraq and Egypt and Syria).
  We are learning how easy it is to manipulate populations with their own prejudices and that politics and religion never mix, even if a super-power says they should mix.

• Irak : Dix ans plus tard…
  14 avril 2013, par siawi3

  Nous apprenons que les masques sont tombés. Plus personne n’est honteux de l’hypocrisie. On peut prétendre être contre l’extrémisme religieux (comme en Afghanistan), mais promouvoir l’extrémisme religieux ailleurs (comme en Irak et l’Egypte et la Syrie). Nous apprenons combien il est facile de manipuler des populations avec leurs propres préjugés et que la politique et la religion ne vont jamais ensemble, même si une superpuissance dit qu’elles devraient se mélanger.

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