HW31: Responding To Rivebend

I chose to do some research on the head scarfs known as a hejab, that woman are being forced to wear in Iraq. I got my information from, http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A35086-2004Dec29?language=printer .
In the Islamic holy book, the Koran, it tells a Muslim the reasons why they should wear a hejab, but those are the religious reasons. The woman in Iraq today are not wearing them for religious reasons, they are wearing them to save their own lives. In the article I read the woman stated that, "The whole point of wearing scarves now was to be annonymous and unimportant, to aviod being singled out and followed, or kidnapped, or shot." This problem is new for the Iraqi women. Before the American invasion many Iraqi women felt that wearing the hejab was an option and they could chose not to wear it.Fadhil Shaker said " They want to hide or take shelter or protect themselves. For women, the scarf is the best way to protect them. Women believe the scarf will be the wall to prevent people from looking at them." I don't think it is fair that the most advanced country in the world invades another country and causes there women to fear their safety and fear for their lives when they go outside their homes. I feel awful for these womens, it seems they no longer have any rights because America invaded and has occupied their home land and their have been so many shooting and abdunctions that they are no longer safe in their own towns out side of their homes. It just doesn't seem right to me.