Elroy Willis <elroywillis@swbell.net> wrote:

Isn't Christianity wonderful? The Christofascists destroy Democracy
where ever they go.

It looks to me like it's the Iraqis who are destroying democracy
before it ever gets started, by trying to create a theocracy based on
Islam.

The Iraqi government and the secular rule of law was destroyed by a
bunch of Christian fascists who sought to install another puppet
dictatorships under the guise of being a Democracy.

The consequences that we see now were easily foreseen since the Brits
tried to pull the same stunt long before the Republinazis tried it.

| Iraqi Constitution May Curb Women's Rights

| By EDWARD WONG
| Published: July 20, 2005

| BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 19 - A working draft of Iraq's new constitution
| would cede a strong role to Islamic law and could sharply curb
| women's rights, particularly in personal matters like divorce and
| family inheritance.

| The document's writers are also debating whether to drop or phase
| out a measure enshrined in the interim constitution, co-written
| last year by the Americans, requiring that women make up at least
| a quarter of the parliament.

| If adopted, the shift away from the more secular and egalitarian
| provisions of the interim constitution would be a major victory
| for Shiite clerics and religious politicians, who chafed at the
| Americans' insistence that Islam be designated in the interim
| constitution as just "a source" of legislation. Several writers
| of the new constitution say they intend, at the very least, to
| designate Islam as "a main source" of legislation.

<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/20/international/middleeast/20women.html?ei=
5094&en=09d840d1e4d06041&hp=&ex=1121832000&adxnnl=1&partner=homepage&adxnnlx
=1121855036-CuB9hiqZSHz68oKeFLxJzQ>

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