Generally speaking people, it's at primary school people learn to read in England, and I'd imagine it'd be teh same in Iraq, so I wouldn't think statistics about post secondary would be too relevant.

I'd have thought that, as with Christians, it wouldn't be so much the actual ability to read that'd get in the way here, but rather shared understandings of how to interpret the scriptures.

Here's an interesting article about women and Islam: ISLAMIC TRADITIONS AND THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT