This is why.
Sometimes I get asked why feminism is so damn important. This is why.
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The article is not graphic, but reports some news that certainly made me feel nauseous.
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Oh ugh, I know, that story is just so awful. That woman is a torturer, a serial killer and a rapist-by-proxy.
You have to remember, of course, just how the American authorities and their Iraqi puppets extract "confessions" in Iraq.
It invariably involves various forms of torture - including rape.
We don't really know what this woman actually did, other than her involvement in training and arming female suicide bombers.
Did she actually have those women raped to recruit them?
That's what the US Army and the Iraqi Police made her put in her confession - but, again, knowing HOW they get confessions, is it really true?
Considering the fact that crimes against women - including rape - have skyrocketed during the US occupation years, and considering that, according to sexist Iraqi custom, a woman who has been raped has 'shamed her family' it's entirely possible that she went out of her way to recruit traumatized and suicidal rape survivors.
That's pretty seriously fucked up, but very different than actually having the women raped deliberately.
Again, we don't know the real truth here - just the US Army/Iraqi Police version of the story.
I know- but the fact is that there is a whole mess of rape surrounding this story, whether it's in the article or just suggested by the situation in which the "confession" was extracted.