Islamists to impose the veil on Iraqi women
Christian women are being warned in a letter issued by the extremist Mahdi Army to adhere to Muslim practice of wearing the veil in public. Iranian-backed cleric Moqtada al-Sadr may be involved. Mahdis demand payment from Christians.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
By Asia News

“Extremist Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq are at war over everything, but united by one common denominator: the persecution of Christians”. So say the faithful of Baghdad. A letter is circulating the capital, warning Christian women to wear the veil in accordance with domestic segregation. The letter is signed by the Mahdi army, linked to Moqtada al-Sadr, the radical Iraqi Shiite cleric, who the US considers the greatest threat to security in the country. Upon till now the Sunni group of “the Islamic State in Iraq” was the most violent threat to the Christian community: from their imposition of the jizya – the “compensation” demanded by the Koran from non Muslim subjects – to their expropriation of property and forced conversions to Islam. the rest