In Baghdad's sprawling shantytown formerly known as Saddam City and now renamed after Sadr, Sheik Jaber Khafaji said that bars should be closed, women should be veiled and men should grow their beards. "From now on, I tell you don't allow the women to go out without veils, not one bit of their hair should appear," said Khafaji, who is close to the Sadr family. Don't let the bars open; tell them to close," said Khafaji. "Those rules should be implemented on everyone, Muslims and non-Muslims, and the Muslims should implement them with more fervour," he said. 

Over the past twenty years, in Iran, the Sudan, Algeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan under the Taliban, political Islamic groups and Islamic regimes have proceeded to transform their countries, and particularly women's homes into prison houses, where the confinement of women, their exclusion from many fields of work and education, and their brutal treatment became the law of the land.