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What lemmy thinks of Iraq? (lemmy.zip)

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As an Iraqi, I do ask this question to myself a lot, what the world opinion on modern Iraq. It changed a lot especially after ISIS war, but people here generally don't value the change that much due to high unemployment rates, drought, and bossy militias.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Lots of tourists come around here, mainly to The marshes, the city of Babylon and Ur, yearly from the month of November to April where the temperature rates are at it's modest. I recommend you coming here, it's not that scary really from the tourists perspective.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

I'd love to visit Iraq and other parts of the middle east, but the culture surrounding women and their rights prevents me from going. I havent checked out Iraq specifically, but based on my reading of nearby Egypt, it's so ass backwards that I couldn't in good conscience take my wife there. The risk of sexual harassment, assault, etc is just too great.