Iraqi Athletes Shot and Killed "For Wearing Shorts"

[UberLutheran]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5020804.stm

Iraqis shot 'for wearing shorts'

The coach of Iraq's tennis team and two players were shot dead in Baghdad, days after militants issued a warning forbidding the wearing of shorts.
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This is the "freedom" for which we've been fighting a very expensive and very deadly war — the "freedom" of Islamic fundamentalists to declare what people may and may not wear, eat, listen to, or read (on pain of death).

 

[KittyPryde]

Unbelievable!
I am left speechless.

 

[neverforsaken]

who wears short shorts?

Noone......or they die!

 

[Vylo]

who wears short shorts?

Noone......or they die!

There is a reason you are in my sig . So wrong, but funny.

 

[Doctrine1st]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5020804.stm

Iraqis shot 'for wearing shorts'

The coach of Iraq's tennis team and two players were shot dead in Baghdad, days after militants issued a warning forbidding the wearing of shorts.

​

This is the "freedom" for which we've been fighting a very expensive and very deadly war — the "freedom" of Islamic fundamentalists to declare what people may and may not wear, eat, listen to, or read (on pain of death).

I quote Cindy Sheehan one more time:

"For what noble cause did my son die for?"

 

[justanobserver]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5020804.stm

Iraqis shot 'for wearing shorts'

The coach of Iraq's tennis team and two players were shot dead in Baghdad, days after militants issued a warning forbidding the wearing of shorts.

​

This is the "freedom" for which we've been fighting a very expensive and very deadly war — the "freedom" of Islamic fundamentalists to declare what people may and may not wear, eat, listen to, or read (on pain of death).

If they shoot the tennis team over shorts, wonder what the extremists will do to the swimmimg team?

 

[Vylo]

If they shoot the tennis team over shorts, wonder what the extremists will do to the swimmimg team?

Replace the water with acid?

 

[jamesrwright3]

I quote Cindy Sheehan one more time:

"For what noble cause did my son die for?"

We have only been over there a short while.
We can't expect to roll back thousands of years of history in a little over 3 years
It is a work in progress.

 

[holysee]

We have only been over there a short while.
We can't expect to roll back thousands of years of history in a little over 3 years
It is a work in progress.

Thousands of years? People were able to wear shorts under Saddam its only since the invasion that Islamist extremists have been let loose.

Incidentally Islam is fewer than two thousand years old so where do the "thousands of years" come from?

 

[jamesrwright3]

Thousands of years? People were able to wear shorts under Saddam its only since the invasion that Islamist extremists have been let loose.

Incidentally Islam is fewer than two thousand years old so where do the "thousands of years" come from?

Yes, and people before were killed and raped by Saddam and his sons for no reason.
Saddam kept these people under control by an iron fist and threats to kill one's old family
The sentiment was always there.

So yes, we are trying to change a long history in about 3 years

I hope you aren't insinuating life was better under Saddam

 

[Rochir]

This is the "freedom" for which we've been fighting a very expensive and very deadly war — the "freedom" of Islamic fundamentalists to declare what people may and may not wear, eat, listen to, or read (on pain of death).

Nonono, I think you got that wrong! You're fighting this war so Iraqi people have the "freedom" to think, do and say what America wishes them to!

 

[Rochir]

If they shoot the tennis team over shorts, wonder what the extremists will do to the swimmimg team?

Actually, with tehse modern neopren swim suits which cover much of the body, arms and legs, the swim teach should be quite safe!

Or here a model which can be worn by women:

 

[MichaelFJF]

"The gunman took the body out of the car and threw it on top of the other two bodies before stealing the car," said the witness, who requested anonymity.

Sounds like a car-jacking to me. That could happen in L.A.

I know, I know, leaflets. Whatever. "Militants" will find a reason to kill. Saddam used to break legs and kill players for losing.
And:

Ah yes. Here are CCGirl's beloved freedom fighters in action.

Now, now, behave. Dontcha know some people have their finger resting on the report button?

 

[Machjo]

Actually, with tehse modern neopren swim suits which cover much of the body, arms and legs, the swim teach should be quite safe!

Or here a model which can be worn by women:

Pretty

But I can still see her face, air, hands and feet. I don't know know about this. Hmmm.... What if she just wore a waterproof chador? Or at least a waterproof hijab... along with gloves and flippers?

 

[holysee]

Yes, and people before were killed and raped by Saddam and his sons for no reason.
Saddam kept these people under control by an iron fist and threats to kill one's old family
The sentiment was always there.

So yes, we are trying to change a long history in about 3 years

I hope you aren't insinuating life was better under Saddam

The Baath Party regime in Iraq was a secular tyranny very much like other tyrannies around the world (many US backed as Saddam initially was). It was brutal and murderous. Now Iraqi's experience a different sort of murderous brutality. For instance Christians as Christians were not persecuted in Saddam's Iraq and now they are. Street crime in Saddam's Iraq was mimimal now it is rampant. Women were free to wear what they liked in Saddam's Iraq now they cannot. All of these things have got worse because of the invasion and for no other reason.

The fact is ordinary Iraqi's have experienced decades of suffering of different types to accept that Saddam's regime was bad doesn't mean that we have to pretend that the current situation is Saddam's fault. The Baathist's repressed the genie of Islamist extremism and sectarian tensions which the invasion and subsequent disbandment of the Iraqi police and army allowed to escape from its bottle. The post Saddam situation in Iraq in some ways is better , freedom of press and of assembly etc, and in some ways is worse, kidnappings, being shot for wearing shorts that kind of thing. Try to stop thinking that the world is divided into goodies and baddies. Reality is more complex than John Wayne movies.

 

[KittyPryde]

Which makes me very fearful of what will occur when the US coilition withdraw their troops. Civil war or worse?
We may need to occupy this country for a very long time.

 

[LouTheWicked]

That country is so ****** up it's not even funny. These ludicrous laws and other piles of steaming bullpat just shows the amount of unbelievable stupidity and fear Iraq is wrapped up in.

 

[QuiltAngel]

The coach of Iraq's tennis team and two players were shot dead in Baghdad, days after militants issued a warning forbidding the wearing of shorts.



I find the word "millitants" to be important here. The millitants are very high profile there, but that does not mean the speak for the majority.

 

[Vylo]

Operation Iraqi Freedoom. And with all the troubles they have, outside terrorist forces have to throw fuel on the fire too. These people get screwed no matter what happens .

 

[Doctrine1st]

We have only been over there a short while.
We can't expect to roll back thousands of years of history in a little over 3 years
It is a work in progress.

But that hasn't been their history.