AMS rejects writing constitution

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From Al Jazeera.net:
By Faleh al-Khattab

Sunday 13 February 2005, 19:19 Makka Time, 16:19 GMT


An official spokesperson for the influential Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS) has said that his organisation refuses to help in writing a new Iraqi constitution as long as the country remains under occupation.

Muhammad Bashar al-Faithi said a constitution written while an occupying army is in charge of the country will invariably be influenced by the aims of the occupation itself.

"Such a constitution will fulfill the aims of the occupation," he told Aljazeera.net.

The AMS position is that many Iraqis head to the polls unaware of the implications of their vote, he said, adding that religious and political coercion pushed many to vote. <snip>


http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F218307A-3D03-4421-A8CA-B7805EAED7E3.htm

[ktowntennesseedem]

1. Why don't we just give them our Constitution?

We're not using it anymore!

[Massacure]

2. Our consitution failed us. It needs revising.