• Fighting sours Iraq youth on religion's resurgence

In two months of interviews with 40 young people in five Iraqi cities, a pattern of disenchantment emerged, in which young Iraqis, both poor and middle class, blamed clerics for the violence and the restrictions that have narrowed their lives."I hate Islam and all the clerics because they limit our freedom every day and their instruction became heavy over us," said Sara Sami, a high-school student in the Shiite-dominated southern city of Basra. "Most of the girls in my high school hate that Islamic people control the authority, because they don't deserve to be rulers."