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To: steve harris who wrote (226739)3/29/2005 1:41:06 PM
From: tejek  Respond to of 1573717
 
Female students in fear as Shias push for headscarves

Rory Carroll in Baghdad
Tuesday March 29, 2005
The Guardian

Female students strolled in the balmy spring afternoon through the grounds of the humanities faculty at Baghdad University yesterday oblivious to the watching man in black.

"There is a fire inside me when I see them. You could throw ice into my chest and still you would not cool it down," said Thi al-Faqar Jassim, 25, his eyes following women with uncovered heads.

He did not know who they were but knew what they were: flouters of his strict version of Shia Islam. "It is not right, they should wear the headscarf."

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guardian.co.uk