truthout.org:
"In an attempt to describe women's lives in Iraq today, Yanar Mohammad, a leading Iraqi women's rights advocate says: "It is heartbreaking to me to see the return of extreme, anti-women practices that we had not seen for many decades. When I grew up in Iraq, women went to school; educated, professional, working women were a part of our society. Today, a woman risks her life simply by going to the grocery store. Our lives have been ripped from us."