Despite becoming victims of permanent threat of shooting, bomb attacks, kidnappings and rape...how a group of Muslim women in Iraq could even think to kill another group of Muslim women? But this is a harsh reality and slowly becoming common practice in Iraq. We all know, condition of Muslim women is worse in most of the Muslim countries. In recent bizarre of events, in the al-Washshash district of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, a gang of Shiite women, a part of the Mahdi army militia killed three Sunni women.
The Mahdi Army, Militia or Jaish al Mahdi is paramilitary force created by Iraqi Shias to protect Shia community form Sunnis and U.S led occupation forces. The leader of the gang is Layla, the sister of Jabbar Hammudi, the principal leaders of the Mahdi Army,who was killed few days before. Violence broke out, when some of Sunni women try to protect their homes from a gang of Shiite women. From very long time, the campaign of forced migration of Sunni families in that district of Baghdad, have been carried out by the militias of the Mahdi Army.
This incident reminded me of a small footage of Saddam regime where a regiment of women soldiers are killing dogs with their bare hands to show how tough they are. The women who is considered to be kind hearted, soft and loving are becoming more and more violent. Not to mention that this story tells that women, too, may engage in ‘jihad’. And it illustrates, in spades, the fact that the much-vaunted ‘brotherhood’ or ’sisterhood’ of Muslims, everybody all happy families together, is purely illusory.
Unfortunately, women in Iraq are wasting their time to attacking and killing each other and not concentrating on real cause of their suffering and problems. The attempts to kill each other by both the Muslim communities (Shia and Sunni) will only be beneficial for US led forces. I just hope that in the future, society will respect the rights of women, and woman will help the other in all walks of life.
