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...Founding Fathers wrote the First Amendment to protect our democracy, not destroy it. By keeping Rove's identity confidential, Cooper, in the finest tradition of journalism, proved that freedom of the press protects all of us, regardless of race, religion or political affiliation. Jonathan Greene Los Angeles Of Islam and Violence Irshad Manji's essay "When Denial Can Kill" succinctly captured the complex issue of Islam's intertwinings with terrorism and noted that Muslims, of which she is one, need to admit that Islam might be motivating suicide bombers [July 25]. As a Muslim, I find it not only refreshing...
...ites, in addition to their own region, want a greater role for Islam in the constitution. The Kurds and Sunnis generally oppose a greater role for religion. Women's gropus are also concerned that a constitution based on Islam would curtail women's rights in Iraq, which are relatively liberal by the region's standards...
...Federalism, the role of Islam and women's rights are still - after months of negotiations - key sticking points. The Kurds are demanding a loose federation designed to keep their ?peshmerga? militia and the autonomy they've enjoyed in their territory for the past 14 years. They're also demanding final status talks on the city of Kirkuk, which they claim as a Kurdish city, but which was ?Arabized? under Saddam Hussein. The Sunni Arabs are pushing back against the Kurdish claims on Kirkuk and Shi'ite demands for a similar autonomous region in the south. Sunni negotiators oppose federalism because...
...drawn down as early as next spring. But each time the U.S. signals a likely pullout, the political factions in Iraq jockeying to write a draft constitution, due Aug. 15, immediately signal back that they have less incentive for making concessions on issues as basic as the role of Islam, oil revenues and political power sharing. Said an American involved in the negotiations: "The more it looks like the U.S. is gonna leave, the harder it is to get a deal that will enable them to leave...
...national election in December. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld flew to Baghdad on July 27 to pressure the country's feuding political leaders to agree on a draft constitution by the Aug. 15 deadline. The constitutional committee has made limited progress on some thorny issues, such as the role of Islam in a new government, but it's at odds on others. Kurds in the north and Shi'ites in the south, for example, are demanding a loose federal form of government that gives them autonomy to control revenues from the oil fields in their regions. The Sunnis, who lost political...