I'm a subscriber, financial contributor & reader of Michael Yon, whose reports from Iraq have shown the drive-by media for what they are; liars!  Thanks to him and other independent & imbeded reporters in Iraq, the drive-by's cannot get away with their truth manipulation anymore.  So when I found this story today, (compliments BrianH @ ITM), I wondered at what, at the time, seemed like a contradiction for what Yon reports here. 

"So here is what the women of Basra have to say about that “better place”.

“I know a college student who was shot in the leg for not wearing a hijab; a second girl was attacked in the Ashhar district in Basra and killed because she was not wearing a hijab.”

One woman who visited the grave of her son in the Shia cemetery in Najaf, the holiest of cities where many from Basra bury their dead told us by phone: “I was really shocked when I got to the cemetery. The shock was the number of women’s coffins that I saw arriving from Basra. The female coffins were identified with a black abaya which is draped over the coffin. This is a new thing. I never ever saw if before in the graveyard in all the times I visited my son in the cemetery. I don’t know who is killing those women but I never saw this before.”

That is, until I this story, also posted at ITM (hat tip: bg)  It seems to have explained a lot!  Sure, things are quieter, things are better...unless you're a woman!  Wow!  Didn't the Brits notice a difference?  I know Yon is/was focused on things strictly military.  That's where his reporting shines!  So why isn't the situation being more noticed?  Well, this story may explain it; at least from the British perspective;  (hat tip:  Gateway Pundit)

"The Great Britain Hizb ut-Tahrir chapter held a conference yesterday in London and called again for a global caliphate. The radical group insisted that Pakistan's future lay in the implementation of a sincere Islamic leadership through a new Khilafah.

YNET News and ROP reported on the Hizb ut-Tahrir conference yesterday in London.

The British branch of a world-wide radical Islamist group, Hizb ut-Tahrir, held a conference in London on Saturday, in which speakers called for the overthrow of Muslim governments and their replacement with a single Islamic state, known as the caliphate. According to Hizb ut-Tahrir's website, "thousands" of people attended the conference.

Hizb ut-Tahrir - the Liberation Party in English - is active in dozens of countries, but has been banned in several Arab states, as well as European countries such as Germany and Russia. It is also illegal in China. In Britain, the organization is still legal, despite instances of the group's members and websites being found to promote anti-Semitic incitement to violence and calls for suicide bombings. In Australia, the organization is facing the prospect of a ban."

I guess the Islamic threat is being ignored in the UK, so maybe that's why the Brits saw their accomplishments in Basra as "acceptable".  Eurabia, here comes the Brits!  Ladies of Basra, you may want to move north.