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New constitutions are nothing more than a long list of promises, and the constitution adopted in Afghanistan this month is no exception. That, however, should not dampen the Afghani people’s excitement or pride. After three weeks of intense debate and the near collapse of the talks on...
In a region struggling to reconcile religious law with individual freedom, Afghanistan’s new constitution shines out as an example of the balance that can be struck between democracy and religion. The document that creates the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is based on a system of civil law...
Indeed, while progress is made to expand the government’s control, we can only hope that the dialogue produced by such a forward-looking document does not give way to traditional pressure when Afghanistan is called upon to choose a judiciary. A legal system filled with conservative judges...
First of all, integration has nothing to do with the headscarf. They are simply unrelated issues—women who wear the scarf have a wide variety of relationships to French secular society. I would be deeply offended if my fellow American Muslims were called “un-American?...
May Habib ’07, a Crimson editor, lives in Grays Hall. She is a member of the Harvard Islamic Society.