Another female suicide bomber has caused yet another human casualty count in Iraq. This happened after the US has agreed to relinquish its overt participation in the security matters of the country. Radical Islamists know too well that they can exploit women to carry out suicide bombing forays because gender issues make women less vulnerable to security checks. It is prohibited in the religion to touch a woman’s body, therefore, the bombs strapped and hidden inside a woman’s burqa cannot be searched. There is also a shortage of female police officers to do the checking and body searches.

Women are second-class citizens for Muslim extremists whose political agenda will necessitate the utilization of all means possible, while trampling on a religion that they conveniently cloak themselves with. Radical Islamists have been known to ‘inspire’ patriotism in women (read: brainwash) to blow themselves up in public. If the religion boasts of respect for women, Islamists certainly have turned against the religion.

Another insight not to be overlooked is the fact that many years of US intervention in Iraq have apparently not done any good to the civil unrest in that country. Bush’s dream of liberating Iraq is a sham. The Sunnis and the Shiites will continue to clash even way after the US ends its so-called invasion of the country to allegedly unify it. This validates the clamor of many American people as well as others around the globe that only Iraq can unify Iraq, and that the interventionist stance of the US in the country has really nothing to do with national purposes. After the loss of more than 660,000 people (the human cost of the US war in Iraq), the country is as divided as ever.

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Via USA TODAY