Damsels of Death: Female Suicide Killers in Iraq

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
July 28, 2008

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/323/damsels-of-death-female-suicide-killers-in-iraq

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Four female suicide killers just murdered 57 people and wounded 300 others in Iraq . Many of their victims were on a religious pilgrimage.

This should no longer surprise us. Like men, women are human beings and are therefore as close to the apes as to the angels. Thus, like men, women are as likely to nourish as to destroy. Still, we live in a culture that on the one hand, suspects women of being sneaky, “bitchy,” even evil but on the other hand, idealizes women as morally superior to men and as Natural Born Mothers, not as Natural Born Killers.

And, we are used to hearing that women in the Third World, including the Islamic world, are victims, not killers. How can they be both? They can.

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