Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[niteowl]

You did not even read the article so I've again copied the piece below.

As for my statement about women's rights, it is just one piece of how things were/were not under Saddam and 'it is not my claim' but the claim of women in Iraq. To use this one piece as a determining factor in the big picture is wrong.

"But activists say that the current female MPs do not represent women's advocates and were brought in by male-dominated political parties to fill the 25 percent quota.

"These were voted in to fill the quota... None of them serves in the politburo of any of their parties... They are mere mouthpieces," Jamil said.

"We fear the same might happen in the next elections," she added, claiming that independent women have very slim chance of making it into the national assembly."