{"id":644,"date":"2004-02-17T05:46:06","date_gmt":"2004-02-17T10:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/government_foundations\/"},"modified":"2004-02-17T05:46:06","modified_gmt":"2004-02-17T10:46:06","slug":"government_foundations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/government_foundations\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Foundations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bremer <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/ap\/20040217\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/iraq&#038;cid=540&#038;ncid=716\">lays down<\/a> the law:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Monday, U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer said he would move to block any effort by Iraqi leaders to put Islamic law as the foundation of legislation in the interim constitution, which is supposed to take effect at the end of February.<br \/>\nHowever, Mohsen Abdel-Hamid, the current president of the Iraqi Governing Council and a Sunni Muslim hard-liner, has proposed making Islamic law the &#8220;principal basis&#8221; of legislation, which many Iraqi women&#8217;s groups fear will threaten their legal rights.<br \/>\n&#8220;Our position is clear,&#8221; Bremer said when asked what he would do if the Iraqis wrote Islamic law as the principal basis of the legal code. &#8220;It can&#8217;t be law until I sign it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting how the Republican party is dominated by those who claim America was founded on Judeo-Christian principles (the Ten Commandments).  Yet the Bush administration is telling a Muslim country that they can&#8217;t base their government on Islamic law.<br \/>\nCurious, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/government_foundations\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Government Foundations\"><p>Bremer lays down the law: On Monday, U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer said he would move to block any effort by Iraqi leaders to put Islamic law as the foundation of legislation in the interim constitution, which is supposed to take effect at the end of February. However, Mohsen Abdel-Hamid, the current president of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}