Future head of the government wants to introduce the sharia in Iraq

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Future head of the government wants to introduce the Islamic Sharia in the Iraq

With hard hand the designated prime minister of Iraq, Ibrahim al-Dschaafari, wants to proceed against the terror in his country. "If the democratic experiment and the development of the new Iraq are to succeed, these daily blood baths must stop", said the Shiite leader to the (German news magazine) SPIEGEL.

Hamburg - "there may be no mildness for murderers", continued to say Dschaafari. In order to pacify the country torn up between Kurds, Shiites and Sunnites, he wants to grant large autonomy to the Kurds. In the context of a national reconciliation the designate Prime Minister wants to merge also the "Sunnite brothers" and induce them "to prepare with us the new constitution".

In principle, so Dschaafari, is to become the new Iraq "an Islamic state, but will stand neither for Iran nor Saudi Arabia thereby godfather". The Sharia, the Islamic juridical system, is to be introduced, however "only as one of several sources of the jurisdiction". It will not give a veil obligation for women anyhow.

(http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,347229,00.html)