Thursday 8 March 2007

International Womens Day - Death threat to Houzan Mahmoud

On the 8th March it will be International Women's Day. A day
originally proposed by the great socialist Clara Zetkin and yet now
often appropriated by big and small business.It is vital in this of
all weeks we show support for Iraqi socialist and women's rights
activist Houzan Mahmoud, representative abroad of the Organisation of
Women's Freedom in Iraq, who has been threatened by Islamic
fundamentalists. On February 26, 2007, Houzan received an e-mail
signed by Ansar al-Islam, the notoriously brutal jihadist group based
in Kurdistan/Iraq.

The death threat, delivered via e-mail, read:

"With the permission of Great God, we will kill you either in Iraq or
in London by the middle of March, because you are campaigning against
Islam. You should be sent to God for punishment."

Houzan Mahmoud, aged 34, who is currently based in London, is
originally from Iraqi Kurdistan, where she recently led a campaign
against the imposition of Islamic Sharia law in the proposed
constitution. Houzan is resolved to persist in her work, despite
being targeted by Ansar al-Islam.

Houzan says: "I will continue doing what I am doing now, going around
the world cultivating support for women in Iraq and Kurdistan as well
as exposing the violence and gender apartheid that Islamists are
imposing on millions of women in the region."

Comrade Houzan needs your support. Show solidarity by contacting her
at: houzan73@yahoo. co.uk

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