Re: Iraq Religious Freedom-Draft Constitution: 2 parts: USCIRF WashPost OpEd; Monitor Article

2005-08-06 Thread Barmak Kusha
Thank you, Brent. I hope my posing the question has not crossed any lines. You are right. This is  a very sensitive issue, and perhaps I should not have posed it in such a public forum at all to begin with. BarmakBrent Poirier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is a very hot item, in a very unstable a

Re: Iraq Religious Freedom-Draft Constitution: 2 parts: USCIRF WashPost OpEd; Monitor Article

2005-08-06 Thread Brent Poirier
This is a very hot item, in a very unstable and fluid situation. While I watch with interest, and I'm sure that the House is carefully monitoring the situation, I do not feel qualified to comment for a couple of reasons. One is that I am not at all a constitutional law scholar. I think the folk

Re: Iraq Religious Freedom-Draft Constitution: 2 parts: USCIRF WashPost OpEd; Monitor Article

2005-08-06 Thread Barmak Kusha
These 2 pieces should be of great interest re rights of Baha'i Faith in Iraq.   The whole situation reminds me of the al-Azhar case early last century, and how the Guardian saw it in an entirely spiritual persepctive and thus as a GREAT victory for the Cause of God, while with a material and