BRYAN
04-25-2005, 05:38 PM
Talabani rules out Islamic regime in Iraq
Iraqi president says legislators will not make laws that will contradict principles of Islam.
ANKARA - An Islamic regime will not be allowed in Iraq but the country's predominantly Muslim identity will be respected, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said in an interview published Monday by a Turkish newspaper.
But Iraq's interim constitution, signed after much wrangling in March 2004, declared that Islam could only be "a source" of legislation, while stressing that no law contradicting "the universally agreed tenets of Islam" would be accepted.
http://195.224.230.11/english/?id=13311
Iraqi president says legislators will not make laws that will contradict principles of Islam.
ANKARA - An Islamic regime will not be allowed in Iraq but the country's predominantly Muslim identity will be respected, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said in an interview published Monday by a Turkish newspaper.
But Iraq's interim constitution, signed after much wrangling in March 2004, declared that Islam could only be "a source" of legislation, while stressing that no law contradicting "the universally agreed tenets of Islam" would be accepted.
http://195.224.230.11/english/?id=13311