Liberated from the shackles of Saddam Hussein's neo-Stalinist regime,
Muslim extremists are moving aggressively to
impose faith-based government on Iraq, which used to be one of the most secular societies in the Middle East. Liquor stores have been bombed, and women of all faiths have been threatened to cover up or else:
"Women who don't wear the veil won't be served when they go shopping; taxis won't pick them up and they might have eggs and rotten tomatoes thrown at them."
Not everybody's keen on Islamist theocracy, though; secular Iraqis and the country's Christian community vow to resist.