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No American Imposed Constitution Al

Juan Cole 10/06/2003

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No American-Imposed Constitution – al-Mudarrisi

Prominent cleric Taqi al-Mudarrisi in Karbala warned the US Sunday not to attempt to impose on Iraq a constitution that was inappropriate to it. He also warned against a sort of loose Federalism that would divide the country along ethnic lines. He went on to suggest that even some form of non-ethnic decentralization would be preferable. (-al-Hayat). I don’t understand what he meant by the latter, either. But I think his press conference shows the anxieties about the future shape of Iraq that are besetting Iraqi politicians and thinkers. One danger is that a US-dictated constitution will be imposed on them from without. The other is that Iraqis themselves will lack cohesion and so fall into having a failed or partitioned state.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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