Islam to Govern Iraqi Law, Women’s Rights

This week’s full-text RNS article (linked above) looks at the introduction of Islamic law into the Iraqi constitution, and its impact on Iraqi women.

Two views:

“Muslim women are going to suffer if the civil courts are completely abolished,” said Annam Al-Soltany, a lawyer and a member of the Progressive Women’s League, an Iraqi group lobbying for constitutional reforms benefiting women.

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“Islamic law will give women far more protection than the civil law,” said Boushra Hassan, a 31-year-old who founded Batool Cultural House for Women in the Kadhimiya section of Baghdad. “Mankind created the civil laws, but God created mankind and the Islamic laws, so it stands to reason that the Islamic laws are superior.”