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Old law in new Iraq

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Old law in new Iraq
: Riverbend and Zeyad are both having proper fits over an Iraqi Governing Council decision to include Sharia law in family matters.

: Meanwhile, Zeyad is working in frightening circumstances:

More bad news. A fellow dentist who will be working with me in Basrah dropped by today and informed me that another dentist who used to work at the same clinic we were assigned to was murdered this week in Basrah. He was a Christian. My friend who will be assigned with me is also Christian.

My parents are going crazy, they want me to give up the residency and stay in Baghdad. Unfortunately it isn’t that easy. If I were to leave that assignment I would be fired and I would not be allowed ever to work as a licensed dentist in Iraq. I’m really confused. what to do? What to do?

I wish we could get him a journalism scholarship in the U.S.

5 responses to “Old law in new Iraq”

  1. Sorry to be anonymous Avatar
    Sorry to be anonymous

    Wow. So sad. The root cause of the terrorist mental illness of the Islamic world–the absolute fear of female sexuality–is being exposed, yet there is no cure for so long to come. The cycle of abuse is horrifying and the participants many–dictators, mullahs, smalltime imams, down to the man on the street who is terrified he is not a man unless he oppresses a woman. All this is ganging up on Zeyad. No wonder he asks what to do.

  2. Kerry Dupont Avatar
    Kerry Dupont

    Jeff,
    I’m not sure that would be that hard to do, at least getting him out of country, but would it be the right thing to do?
    In order to explain what I mean by that here are my comments to Zeyad in regards to his post.
    Zeyad,
    This is of course all very troubling news. Whenever I have a decision to make that involves fear for my personal being or my family, I go into my kitchen and look at a magnet that I have there. On it is a picture of the memorial to our Marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima. It says “People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.”
    This is a critical moment in your country’s history. For us to say get out, well, it is selfish, we love you and fear for you (and we are not even your parents who of course love you so deeply). Sometimes, getting out and planning to come back someday is more realistic, (Jews in Hitler’s Germany) but then who will fight for what is right? This is how I let my husband go off to serve when he was in the Navy, I read that magnet every night.
    I hope that it helps you as it has me.
    I can’t even talk about Sistani, I am so incensed!

  3. Sandy P. Avatar
    Sandy P.

    What a waste of lives and money – they’re going stone age and Iran’s trying to become modern.

  4. dtrini Avatar
    dtrini

    Journalism scholarship, Jeff? The guy has his head screwed on right and you want the Jschools to turn him into a leftist? Not nice, Jeff.

  5. Doctor Slack Avatar
    Doctor Slack

    There’s a good post about this over at MaxSpeak, incidentally.