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How can democracy be established in Iraq if they can't separate mosque from state?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Democracy is rule by majority. A democracy in Iraq would be a Shiite government, since they make up the vast majority.

    I think what you are suggesting is a Republic. There is no more need for them to separate mosque from state than there is for us to separate church from state. The culture of Iraq is Islamic, just as our culture was based on Christianity (although you would never know it).

    Iraqis take their religion seriously, like Americans used to. The Iraqis are not about to accept abortion, homosexuality, easy divorce and widespread pornography. These values are important to Islam, just as they are to traditional Christianity.

    Be assured, there are efforts underway to undermine those values today in Iraq. You can see the results of those efforts in the US: a divorce rate of 50%, the murder of over a million babies a year, our politicians marching in the "Gay Pride Parade, drugs, gangs and public obscenity.

    The Iraqis don't want any part of that. They have enough problems now with several groups of insurgents, many of which are funded, armed and supported by outside forces like Iran. The various factions in Iraq need to be able to work together as Iraqis, not as Shiites, or Sunnis or Kurds.

    When they can do that, they can establish a republic. They can have freedom of religion, but they don't have to have hostility towards religion like we have.

  • Ynot!
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    1 decade ago

    Hopefully they can establish a democracy in the same vein as Turkey even though they are a Muslim nation they still have representative government

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Iraq was secular compared to Iran and Saudi. Saddamy didn't really care about religion; he just hated Jews and Christians, not to mention Kurds and Shi'a.

  • 1 decade ago

    it usually can't. what i see for the future is a form of government like irans,but independent . a president,yet with a supreme leader that holds the power. al sadr will probably be the supreme leader,unless MEK kills him off with US support.

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  • 1 decade ago

    we can't the us need to take care of home our children elderly and the poor not to mention the rise in fuel

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    if that's the way it really is , then it can't.

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