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Article: Religious freedom gap for Iraq?(COMMENTARY)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- November 9, 2003
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Byline: Nina Shea, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
As Iraq begins the process of drafting a new constitution, religious freedom has not yet surfaced on the Bush administration's short list of non-negotiable requirements for a post-Saddam Iraq. We must avoid the mistakes made in the new draft constitution of Afghanistan - which omits the individual right of religious freedom altogether and paves the way for a judicial theocracy, despite press reports to the contrary.
Asked to outline the administration's position on a constitutional guarantee for religious freedom at a Senate hearing, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz responded: "Iraqis will draft ...