In Portugal, the people got tired of military dictatorship and took to the streets. The military and police were with the people and something like only 4 people died. Billions have been spent on the Iraqis and the Palestinians and they only resort to violence, as in Basra and Gaza. This proves that some people are incapable of democracy.

Davd, Cranston, RI

There are religious militia groups in every religion, in every country. If the countries in the middle east stopped these religious nuts, we wouldn't have wars. When we had Christian groups in the US who tried to attack the government i.e Waco TX, they were wiped out. The same should apply to governments in other countries. They should anhillate them.

vince, Seattle, WA

Whose to say this wasn't the SAS/CIA or MOSSAD's doing? They have all be caught doing similars things in Iraq while dressed in arab clothes.

Pete, London, UK

Thanks liberals for another mess. Where are all of those Women rights groups at?

Liberalism is a mental disorder!

Mr. Smoopy, Republic, USA

As Jennifer has asserted twice here, shurly this MUST be made up and is not to be believed. As she asserts this, I am sure that she would be willing to go to Iraq and run around without a veil, and engage in other "unislamic behavior." Obvioulsy, she would have nothing to fear!

For any society, to teach their children that the greatest thing they can do, is strap a bomb to themselves and destroy "infidels" lives, and place such a low value on human life, is destain to anarchy. Such a society deserves nothing better.

But I am sure that Jennifer, is also going to assert that the palastinian videos of children telling how they want to become martyrs is nothing but propaganda also.

Perhaps all should remember that tolerance of intolerance is cowardace. . .

There are a lot of cowards out there. Sadly, they are not muslims.

Paul Troon , Arlington, Texas, USA

This isn't just a cultural divide, it's proof that we're wasting our time thinking good thoughts and having any good expectations of tribal Muslim savages. Islamics are brutalizing and murdering non Islamics all around the planet and our politically correct morons keep telling us multiculturalism is a good thing. My ass it is. Savages are savages. If it walks like a savage, talks like a savage and acts like a savage... what more do you need you idiots? Stop being "tolerant" of what is not tolerable.

Budmanx, Houston, USA/Tx

“un-Islamic behaviour”
Muhammad taught that the majority of the people in hell were women. The Prophet said, "I was shown the Hell-fire and that the majority of its dwellers were women" (vol. 1, nos. 28, 301; vol. 2, no. 161). The reason the majority of the people in hell were women is stated in vol. 2, no. 541, O Women! I have not seen anyone more deficient in intelligence and religion than you.

Muhammad believed that women were "deficient in intelligence" and thus they should not be given equal rights under Islamic law. For example, he legislated that a woman's testimony in court was worth only half that of a man. Thus it would take the testimony of two women to offset the testimony of one man. Imagine what this would do to women who were raped!
The Prophet said, "Isn't the witness of a woman equal to half of that of a man?" The women said, "Yes." He said, "This is because of the deficiency of a woman's mind" (vol. 3, no. 826).

Ron, Uniontown,

Nick, you said it all. Nothing more needs to be said. Thank you! Gives me hope for the UK and America too. I can't say it enough, you hit it!!

Robert, Joplin, MO

And we will keep on hearing that Islam got nothing to do with
the way women are mis/treated. These murders violate the most elemental human rights. Where is the outrage?

raul gero, miami, usa

This story needs photos or verifiable proof that this is happening. IMHO this story is not credible because I don't hear any families upset about losing daughters.

Lars, St. Louis,

Divide and conquer or in this case divide and run.
The colonalist maxim for the new world dis-order.

Harj Ansen, Londinum, Queen Elizabeth Land

John James, London, wrote: When you've lived in an islamic culture you get a deeper understanding of just how little value is placed on female life.

Quite. But now, thanks to NuLabour, you dont have to live in an Islamic country to find out the practical delights of shari'a. You can do that right here in the UK or Canada.

DaveP, Beverley, UK

No religion is good news for women.

Norman, Anstruther, UK

Since Islam, according to an excerpt in Christopher Hitchen's
book "God is not Great" is a religion formed to give Arabs a religion separate from Judaism and Christianity, is it not common sense that the culture of Arabic countries would use the Koran to further the subservience of women? Islam has been tainted by misogynist mid-east culture, just as Leviticus has been used by fundamental Christians to justify capital punishment. I f Islam were conceived in Britain and America in our recent history as Mormonisn has, I doubt we would be blaming it for the reprehensible acts attributed to a religion that has been so prostituted by the semi-illiterates of most Islamic countries. Mormonism has long ago made polygamy an unnacceptable tenet, because it has adjusted to the dynamics of social evolutionism. The followers of Islam who are blinded by their ignorance have to adjust to this evolution, but I have my doubts.

Terry Hultquist, Ottawa, Canada

Well the answer to the violence of "youth bulge" societies is to empower and educate women.Cultures and religions that insist on a high birth rate (10 per woman in Afghanistan) are bumping up the violence of their society.They are fuelling their future armies to enlarge warlords power bases.They are breeding soldiers.
Perhaps we offer financial incentives to groups who will propose and support matrilineal polyandry.Can you imagine the outrage of all the Abrahamic religions.They would rather we all die than allow anything like that to women.Perhaps we only give aid to women, and none if it is not permitted to be given through them.Microfinance projects are good also.
It isnt religion.Religion is just the excuse for male violence.We must make sure that these violent primitive attitudes are not permitted in any form in the UK. in the name of "multiculturalism".Oh and perhaps the only asylum seekers allowed to request asylum should be women.

Frances , Tunbridge Wells, UK

I'll wager that most of these women were in fact raped and then murdered and 'un-islamic behaviour' used as an excuse for the deprivations of their killers.

When you've lived in an islamic culture you get a deeper understanding of just how little value is placed on female life.

John James, London,

We are hearing that most of these stories...perhaps all....a fiction but are being made up because of fears of the citizens after the departure of the British forces.

Jennifer, dallas,

When political correctness and the racism of multikulturalism require - as dogma - the mantra that this is nothing to do with Islam, the result is illogic and denial and twisting. Until the world recognize that Islam - true Islam - is at the core of so much of this kind of suffering, debate and thus policy can never be rational. Keep dribbling on abut WMDs and lies and Halliburton and all that, and keep a blind eye turned to Islam. Don' look at the Koran, blame "islamophobia," and go back to sleep . Until the next bomb goes off here.

Nick, Rotherham, UK

These stories are believed to be untrue, and are attributed to fears of Iraquis at the departure of British troups.

Jennifer, Dallas, Texas

Another failure, hyped up to be a success by Brown, it lets us see how sad these politicians are when they cannot see or state the obvious truth. Why do we vote for people who do not have a grast on reality??

Dave Madley, Poole, Dorset, England

'Tossed from a car and shot in cold blood'

That'll be another 48 to add to the million or so Iraqis killed by US/UN sanctions and the invasion then.

It's the way you tell 'em.

http://www.ablemesh.co.uk/thoughtsiraqwhatsitworth.html

gordong156 , MK,

Religions do denigrate women but this is not about Islam or anything that is written in the Koran. We have the Koran available in every good bookshop so we know when claims to act in the name of Islam are false. It is about male domination. It is almost never talked about but there is apart of the male make up that gets sexual pleasure from domination and control of women, of a harem even. When this kind of thing happens men can see into the minds of other men and know exactly what this is about and it is not about religion or culture or morality or ethics and certainly not about honour, but about men satisfying their instinctive sexual drives. Resisting these impulses is one of the things that make a civilised society, it is part of the battle fought by the Suffragettes. Look at RAWA. The website of some very brave Suffragette women in Afghanistan who try to gain the freedoms that under Islam they should have as a right.

Keith Budden, Rayleigh, England

I just wanted to reply to Bill Q of Derby re killing of women in Basra. "Until the women rise up against this and wreak vengeance on these 'men', there will be no let up". You cannot be serious!

Simon Morrissey, London, UK

Until the women rise up against this and wreak vengeance on these 'men', there will be no let up. I'm sure there will be a Sura or two to justify this.

Bill Q, Derby,

Another country benefitting from the policies of this not fit for purpose Parliament.

Cromwell, Leeds, Emgland

The women killed were mostly Christian women who were "caught" not wearing a veil. The British and American intervention in Iraq - for anticipated cheap oil which didn't happen - was another American intervention, aided by the British poodle - which has done nothing but harm to innocent people. Saddam Hussein was a tyrant but his regime didn't prosecute women or Christians.
Another classic American intervention was in Afghanistan where they actively encouraged drug growing to destroy the USSR and in the process they created Al Qaida. And not just the "classic" Arab people. But they brought in every islamic fanatic from Indonesia, Thailand , the Philippines, Chechnya, etc who later on returned to their own countries to cause Islamic terror.
In the Balkans they bombed Serbia but gave the Mujahadeen a
clear run , which they used to practice killing Christian villagers and planning the 9/11 episode.
Now they want an anti-missile set-up , hoping for an eventual grab of Russian energy

Marco Borg, London, United Kingdom

As a young woman who had no choice I had to have a breast removed due to aggressive breast cancer. Most of what I read is not a threat about terror, it is rather men asserting their power over women and over others that do not share their political or religious views. The main war on this planet is between men and women, the age old battle of the sexes.
There is only one solution AND THAT IS THAT ALL HUMANS ARE REGARDED AS EQUAL REGARDLESS OF SEX, COLOUR, RELIGION OR ANYTHING ELSE. IN OTHER WORDS WHY DON'T WE SEE OTHERS AS A MIRROR IMAGE OF OURSELVES, LEAVING OUT THE BAGGAGE WE ALL BRING ALONG WITH US?

hILARY Johnson, Medicine Hat,

And this is what our boys have died for?
Brown should hang his head in shame.
Blair too, although he is probably too busy counting his ill gotten gains.

Michael Rigby, Blackburn, England

So they are going to get asylum in the UK? The killers I mean.

Old Atlantic, Atlantic City, NJ

These people are braindead zombies.. who else with a spark of rational thought left in their brain would do such things? Like straight from a horror movie.

Matt, Wuerzburg, Germany

I notice that the Bush Administration talks a lot about bringing freedom to Iraq but never mentions that women are worse off now than they were under Saddam Hussein.

Ian, Frederick , USA MD