Sadly, this result and the fears and suffering of the Iraqi Christians is not dissimilar or distant from the attitude toward Christians around the world. Even here, against the background of the predominate secularist, post-modernistic and moral selectivist culture that pervades much of America ... media, political, and educational. 
Reading more, it does guarantee freedom of religion... however, the whole point is that is not being allowed. The whole point is that Iraqi Christians are being attacked and are basically fleeing the country. The whole point is that once an "official religion of the State" is put in place, that basically nullifies any guarantee of freedom of religion. THAT's the point!Article 7.
A) Islam is the official religion of the State and is to be considered a source of legislation. No law that contradicts the universally agreed tenets of Islam... may be enacted during the transitional period.
Got a second one? That falls just short of a theocracy. When you consider what it could have been (look at Iran), it's a small victory.is to be considered a source of legislation. No law that contradicts the universally agreed tenets of Islam... may be enacted during the transitional period.
That's a start.Each Iraqi has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religious belief and practice. Coercion in such matters shall be prohibited.
I grew up in the South... namely North Carolina. There were plenty of racist @$$holes... and they weren't all white. I moved to the North... namely Boston, over half my life ago. One of the first things spoken to me by a Bostonian was ( with a fake, mocking southern accent), "Yall mus' be frum tha south... I bet yall jus' HATES N*****S! Right?" Let me tell you... That wasn't tolerated by my parents, in our home, in the schools I was taught in NOR in the churches I attended growing up! People who talked like that were... well... considered much, much worse than those they villified. So, that's my very first impression and very first rememberance of being greeted in the "wonderful, liberated world known as" boston! Now... In the second half (plus) of my life, living in New England, I've met plenty of great people of all races, just as I know plenty of great people in the South of all races... But the southerons don't hold a candle to the racists and bigots I've met in New England! Why? Well... you see, growing up my Daddy taught me one really fantastic aspect of free speech... and the very best reason to let anyone say whatever they want to... When the racists speak up, I know exactly who the rat bastards are. (Goody for me!) In this country now there's this big PC push to shut them up. But, that's the way it is here in the North already! Has been for 25+ years since I got here. I hear it because I still have a Southern accent and those type of folks make the very wrong assumption that being Southern equates to being a racist bigot. You would not believe the number of people around New England that think that... and it would shock people more if they knew who some of these most unlikely "upstanding citizens" were! But, I get pulled aside sometimes and talked to in a whisper... "I know you understand about the <fill in the group here... it ranges "n******", "g**ks", "sp***", "ki***", "ch****", "fa**"... and the list goes on>." Those folks don't realize my connections to some of those groups... Naaaa... I think those "lower IQ" Idiots from the South are more honest with showing their ignorance than the smile-at-the-minority-while-trying-to-figure-out-how-to-stab-them-in-the-back folks I've met around here. I wonder how many folks will now be wondering if they ever said anything to me they perhaps shouldn't have?Bill Glasheen wrote:On the other hand, the reality was very different for many minorities in the United States as well. Remember the Salem witch trials? Remember the KKK? It still exists in the south. So do other white supremacist groups. A gaggle of the morons came up from North Carolina a year or two ago and preached hate to a small group of whites with low IQ and no future.
yupI wouldn't get in the UN's case too much about all this. Nothing happens in Iraq unless we say so
Nor does it guarantee the right to bear arms…it’s not the American constitution it’s their country and their rules. But from what I gather on the tube they already seized the right to bear arms.Where's the provision for "freedom of religion" we have and hold so dear HERE?it’s not America…they hold different values dear…let them…when you don’t they kill your people. Other nations have a right to self government.
it’s not the 52nd state is it….what gives you the right….your army? The world was a better place when their was more than one super power.Nothing happens in Iraq unless we say so
Torrents of abuse on the USA "imposing" its views on the world.
domination and indoctrination never works, nor does assimilation, either leave the other nations free to self govern…or commit genocide…other peoples will not accept your will…irreguardless of the might you impose.And torrents of abuse over our "force feeding" "our values and relgion" down the throats of Musliums.
You can't win.
amen Ian…and why should it be in other nations.but sometimes the american ideal isn't sustainable.
not a value I would embrace but I would propose a democratic nation would reflect the values of it’s majority…whats wrong with this?A) Islam is the official religion of the State and is to be considered a source of legislation. No law that contradicts the universally agreed tenets of Islam... may be enacted during the transitional period.
it does guarantee freedom of religion
But seriously, you don't get more cosmopolitan than that area. Duke's one of the top universities in the world in a number of different disciplines. And Charlotte has become banking capital of the country. I know - all the banks left Richmond and went down there. You don't become a state like that by harboring rednecks.
