BAGHDAD — The women at Nasar's beauty salon were Christian and Muslim, both Sunni and Shiite, but they spoke with one voice on an issue that worries them all."I'm sure they will form an Islamic government and our freedom will be gone," Suzan Sarkon, 30, said as she settled in to get her long black hair trimmed. "We've never lived freely in Iraq, and now I think we never will."
...These days a trip to the beauty salon is one of the few escapes for women who no longer feel safe going out on the streets. At Nasar's, in one of Baghdad's safer neighborhoods, customers linger after their beauty treatments, smoking cigarettes, sipping sweet black coffee and talking about their increasingly restricted lives....
The other women listened with sympathy and alarm."If George Bush thinks this is liberation, then he should make his own wife and daughters wear hijab," scoffed Hanan Azzawi, 36, one of the salon's stylists....
"He will have to issue visas for America with this new constitution, because we will all be leaving," she said. "Do they need hairdressers in America?"
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