Aquila Al-Hashimi I found out through reading Riverbend's book, is a part of the Iraqui counsil. Riverbend talks about Aquila just after there was an attack on her. I read that she was walking somewhere with her not so helpful bodyguards (becasue women cannot leave their homes without them) which were her brothers, when a couple of trucks flew past her and hurt her. Apparently, right after that happened, she was taken away in an 'American Ambulance" and was operated on her stomach and had an injured her foot and an injured shoulder. This is terrible! I had no idea thinks of this sort was going on. Riverbend talks about how upsetting it is, she said that this shows how unsafe her world is, how unsafe every women actually is. People liked Akila Al-Hashimi, and that didn’t stop anyone from taking her away. She elledgely did not wear a hijab, which could have been a reason why she was targeted, that’s definitely not the only reason, because she was part of the governing council and that could have been a huge factor.
(Riverbend 75-76)
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