Quote Originally Posted by Aenlic
So how can the constitution affirm the Islamic identity of the Iraqi people, when not all Iraqis follow Islam?
Yup. But I believe Pindar's copy is poorly translated as well as incomplete, so we may have to withhold judgment. However, all the signs are bad. According to today's The New York Times the proposed Constitution has a provision that family disputes will be settled by islamic clerics.

Surely that is a sick joke?

In the Southern, Shiite parts of Iraq women are already forced to stay in the home for fear of rape and 'honour' killings, to wear the infamous bungalow tent with the eye slit, etcetera. On August 10 the Christian Science Monitor reported the return of female circumcision in parts of Iraq. That country will be one more women's prison if this goes on.