Hans Rustad Ayatollah Sistani og kretsen rundt ham har sagt at de ikke ønsker å etterligne Iran. De vil ha et skille stat/religion. Islam skulle kun være en inspirasjonskilde til lovene. Men søndag sendte de ut en erklæring som kan tolkes som et brudd med den moderate linjen.
Sistani er den fremste av fem fremstående skriftlærde innen irakisk shia-islam. De kalles marja al-taqlid. En av de andre storayatollahene, Mohammad Ishaq al-Fayad, lot en av sine talsmenn, sheikh Ibrahim Ibrahimi, sende ut en erlæring, hvor det heter at ingen lov må stride mot islam. Det må heller ikke være noe skille mellom religion og stat.
«All of the ulema (clergy) and marja, and the majority of the Iraqi people, want the national assembly to make Islam the source of legislation in the permanent constitution and to reject any law that is contrary to Islam,» said the statement.
«The marja has priorities concerning the formation of the government and the constitution. It wants the source of legislation to be Islam,» said the source.
«We advise the government not to take decisions which would shock Muslims, such as the conscription of Muslims and the publication of their photos with foreign instructors,» Ibrahimi went on his statement.
«We warn officials against a separation of the state and religion, because this is completely rejected by the ulema and marja and we will accept no compromise on this question.
«If they (the government) want the stability and security of the country, they must not touch the country’s Islamic values and traditions,» the sheikh said. (afp)
Storayatollah Sistani sendte ut en melding om at han støttet erklæringen. Det var således ikke et solo-utspill. Tonen er mer aggressivt krevende enn hva som ble sagt før valget. Det kan være det man kaller «posturing» før forhandlinger om en ny regjering. Men alt som smaker av islamisering er både følsomt og provoserende for andre.
Det er særlig sivilrett som har med familien å gjøre som bør være underlagt sharia, hevder en ayatollah:
The clerics generally agree that the constitution must ensure that no laws passed by the state contradict a basic understanding of Shariah as laid out in the Koran. Women should not be treated as the equals of men in matters of marriage, divorce and family inheritance, they say. Nor should men be prevented from having multiple wives, they add.
One tenet of Shariah mandates that in dividing family property, male children get twice as much as female children.
«We don’t want to see equality between men and women because according to Islamic law, men should have double of women,» said Muhammad Kuraidy, a spokesman for Ayatollah Yacoubi. «This is written in the Koran and according to God.»
