Especially the Iraqis now that we've brought them the freedom of having lost their homes and their relatives. Now they also get this:
[P]rotests were sparked by the closure of a cafe near the IWU [Iraqi Writers Union] building where writers and intellectuals often gathered to smoke sheesha water pipes and drink alcohol.Baghdad provincial authorities argue that they are only enforcing a decree, issued during dictator Saddam Hussein's religious campaigns of the 1990s, which said no restaurants or hotels could serve alcohol.
The ban, which exempts alcohol stores, was initially enforced last year. Under Iraqi law, only Christians and Yazidi-Kurds are allowed to sell alcohol.
The Iraqi Ministry of Education has banned theatre and music classes in Baghdad's Fine Arts Institute, and ordered the removal of statues showcased at the entrance of the institute without explaining the move, but some of the students mull religious reasons as the real motive.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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