February 8, 2005
UNACCEPTABLY DEMOCRATIC:
Iraqi Ayatollah To Leave Constitution To Politicians (Radio Free Europe, 8 February 2005)
A spokesman for Iraqi Shi'a Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani said today that al-Sistani is not demanding the country's new constitution be based on Shari'a, or Islamic law.Hamid al-Khafaf said al-Sistani maintains his previous position that the new constitution should respect the Islamic cultural identity of the Iraqi people.
Al-Khafaf said al-Sistani has not changed his position on that and that the details of the constitution are a matter for elected representatives of the Iraqi people.
Try as they might, the MSM can't turn him into the threat they want him to be.
MORE:
What Sistani Wants: He refuses a new air conditioner, yet his office is Internet-wired. He wants women to take political office, but not to shake the hands of men outside their families. He is easily the most powerful man in Iraq. Yet he's an Iranian. (Rod Nordland and Babak Dehghanpisheh, 2/14/05, Newsweek International)
So the State Department apparat, the CIA, the MSM and Juan Cole were wrong again. In my best Gomer Pyle voice,'SUR-PRIZE! SUR-PRIZE! SUR-PRIZE!'
Why can't we just bet against them in Vegas?
Posted by: Bart at February 8, 2005 12:37 PMAyatollah you so!
Posted by: Mike Morley at February 8, 2005 12:57 PMConsidering the ability so many in the media have gained in the past few years to ignore and/or downplay the more strident statments of the radical clerics against the United States in particular and the west in general, it's funny how they're trying their darndest to turn al-Sistani into a combination of Pat Robertson, James Dobson and Jerry Falwell all rolled into one massive religious threat to demoracy in Iraq.
Posted by: John at February 8, 2005 1:45 PM