A recent Chicago Tribune piece illustrates the horrific extent to which Iraqi women’s lives have been, for lack of a better word, de-valued. In an article about the horrific stoning murder of Duaa Khalil Aswad we learn that rather than be outraged by this brutal crime, many Iraqis are angry that cell phone videos of the murder have incited retaliatory violence resulting in the deaths of more than 20 men and that her death has been used for political purposes rather than seen as an “ordinary problem” as one Iraqi described it. According to the Tribune, the story of the stoning itself has received far less media coverage in Iraq than the murders that later took place in retaliation.
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