Now Iraqi women can be STONED to DEATH for adultery! Thank BUSH! [View All]

[LynnTheDem]

2005;

The "Alliance"...Al Sistani. The IRANIAN Shia supreme cleric leader the US "msm" insists on calling "Iraqi";

La Repubblica: "Putting it in a nutshell, there will be no more stoning of adulterous women, is that it?"

Al-Yasari, cleric al Sistani's spokesman:

"Well, it depends. In the case of married women whom eye witnesses can accuse of betraying their husbands, the punishment can only be that. But in any event there will be very few exemplary sentences, and they will always be issued after a fair trial."

Issue Feb 8, 2005;
http://www.repubblica.it/

2006; Guess who's declared the new Iraqi government...al Sistani's Alliance;
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200602/s1567511.htm

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The majority United Iraqi Alliance supports sharia...
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20060101faessay85104/isobel-coleman/women-islam-andthe-new-iraq.html

United Iraqi Alliance pushes for sharia...
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Iraq:_Uneven_voter_turnout_elects_women_who_push_sharia_law_while_anti-woman_violence_rages

Although questions of implementation remain, the new Iraqi constitution makes Islam the law of the land.
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/

Iraq Constitution:

Article 2:

First: Islam is the official religion of the State and it is a fundamental source of legislation:

A. No law that contradicts the established provisions of Islam may be established.

http://www.freedomhouse.org/religion/news/bn2005/bn-2005-08-30.htm

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But hey, stoning for adultery was what Sistani's Alliance was gung ho for last year...they've probably changed their stance this year...right? And Iraq's Constitution doesn't really have anything to do with Sharia even though it says it does. Really it doesn't.

And although Iraq was secular under Hussein and bush was warned by every expert on the subject around the world that removing Hussein would put the Islamic fundie Shia in control, it's not bush's fault. So stop saying that!

:sarcasm: