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Friday, August 19, 2005
Council for the Protection of the Constitution
Politically minded American religious conservatives, your James Dobsons and Tony Perkinses, are different than Iraqi clerics. They are not the same. I believe that.
They are, however, eerily similar.
Remember Justice Sunday? Justice Sunday 2? There's no question that James Dobson would love to have a Council for the Protection of the Constitution in this country:
The Shiites are determined to create a "Council for the Protection of the Constitution" similar to the one in Iran. [ In Iran, "Laws enacted by the Majlis must be approved by the Council for the Protection of the Constitution." This procedure seems fairly ominous to me; one of its latent functions is to prevent any conflict between civil statute and Islamic canon law.]
Some Sunni leaders remain optimistic that the constitution will be completed by the new deadline, Monday, Aug. 22. If it isn't, though, the Sunnis are blaming Americans: "Americans are more concerned about the sacred deadlines rather than the contents of the constitution, [Saleh al-Mutlaq] said." Just to keep things interesting, Muqtada al-Sadr organized a demonstration against a federation (which Shiites and Kurds prefer, but leaves Sunnis with a barren, oilless wasteland to call their home.) And 3 members of the Iraqi Islamic Party were kidnapped and executed as they put of posters calling for Sunni participation in the upcoming elections.
