dianavan - 24 May 04 - 03:12 PM

"... and yes, I fear the Taliban and other radical fundamentalists."

From your posts Dianavan, you appear to fear and distrust the world and it's dog.

mack/misophist - 25 May 04 - 12:37 AM

"Iraq is largely Sunni."

Complete and utter rubbish, Sunni's are and always have been a minority group in Iraq, far out numbered by Iraq's Shia population.

As for your comment:

"It's such a shame, because, despite Saddam Hussein, Iraq was one of the two secular Muslim states. No more."

Again complete and utter rubbish - to name a few:
- Morocco
- Algeria
- Tunisia
- Egypt
- Turkey
- Lebanon
- Pakistan
- Malaysia
- Indonesia

ALL secular muslim States.

dianavan - 25 May 04 - 12:17 AM

"So regardless of who is in power in Iraq, the muslim faith will still be guided by the local religious leader. And irrespective of what the Koran says, women's rights will be dictated by the religious leaders."

Bush's fault? Don't be ridiculous, formerly a secular state under a dictatorship, in the coming months and years, the people of that country will decide, the women of Iraq are not just going to give up what they once had, why should they.

Although a babtised Christian - there is no bloody Christian religious leader on this earth going to dictate to me what I should think and do - that is for me and my conscience to decide.