“Sexual terrorism coupled with religious zealotry has stolen [Iraqi women’s] right to claim their place in public life. This, then, is a hidden part of the unnecessary suffering loosed by the reckless invasion of Iraq. Amid the daily explosions and gunfire that make the papers is a wave of sexual terrorism, whose exact dimensions we have no way of knowing, and that no one here notices, unleashed by the Bush administration in the name of exporting “democracy” and fighting “the war on terror.” — Ruth Rosen, from “Sexual Terrorism and Iraqi Women”