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The conference, organized by Al-Quds Center of Political Study in cooperation with Konrad Adenauer Institution, aims to compile a single Islamic constitution specifying the Islamic rules and philosophy regarding government, democracy, human rights and multi-party system. Dr. Mohammad Abdul-Mohsen Al-Muqate', professor of law of Kuwait University, tabled to the conferees a blueprint of an Islamic constitution in five chapters. "The blueprint is an attempt to involve all conferees in free and frank debate on the issues raised," Al-Muqate' told KUNA. "Chapter I deals with the basic principle of the state political system, Chapter II deals with rules of government and state authorities, Chapter III deals with freedoms and human rights, Chapter IV covers the financial and economic aspects of Islamic Sharia, Chapter V deals with relations between specific and general rules of Sharia."
The second session dealt with a paper tabled by Yemeni scholar Al-Murtadha Al-Mahtouri titled "Rights and Duties of Citizens - an Islamic Perspective" and another one by Egyptian scholar Sameh Fawzi on citizenship and human rights in Islam. The conferees also discussed a paper written by Dr. Aisha Al-Hejjami, of Marrakech University, Morocco, on Islamic jurisdiction and universal jurisdiction and another one by Arous Al-Zobair, of Algeria. In his address to the opening session of the conference, Director General of Al-Quds Center of Political Study Arib Al-Rentawi said the opposite ends of the spectrum of the Islamic trend played major roles in the Arab and Muslim worlds as well as in foreign countries. The relationship between the Islamic trend and the ongoing political and democratic changes in differs in a community to another, he pointed out. For his part, representative of Konrad Adenauer Institution in Jordan Hardy Austere said the conference aims to probe ways of translating Islamic values into constitutional principles and rules and ensure the rule of law and justice. "A state of constitution and democracy regulates the principles of its society and identity of its citizens," he noted.
A non-government think-tank, Al-Quds Center of Political Study works out researches and develop a profound understanding on challenges facing Jordanian people and government.
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| Posted by:Seafarious |
| #7 There is no easy way to win a debate against such an irrational mindset. Actually, there is but only in the sense of how a Smith & Wesson beats four aces. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-09-02 16:41 |
| #6 This would be a blueprint for a new Dark Age. Maybe Francis Fukuyama did not have it right after all - we are not at the end of political evolution where the trend toward the establishment and widening of liberal, capitalistic democracies is irresistable. It was easier to discredit Communism than the toxic, murderous cult of Islam - Communism had real pretensions about creating a better world which could be disproven scientifically and factually. Islam simplistically enforces unquestioning obedience to primitivism and superstition. There is no easy way to win a debate against such an irrational mindset. |
| Posted by: Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-09-02 15:20 |
| #5 It is precisely gatherings of this sort that merit a liberal application of cruise missiles. These are the leading experts in how to implement Islamic theocracy. The gathered individuals represent some of Islam's biggest movers and shakers for entrenching shari'a law in Muslim societies. They are the devout enemies of freedom and all human liberty. High context Islamic cultures are exceptionally dependent upon the pronouncements of such authorities. Scholars of this sort have built up generations of personal connections to obtain this sort of recognition and positions of power. By striking an assemblage of this sort we could cripple a huge portion of Islam's ability to issue edicts and fatwan that are so necessary for moving shari'a implementation forward. I'll ask you to please note the topic of, "trans-border guidelines of government in Islamic and Arab countries". This is a naked reference to establishment of a pan-Arab caliphate. Those who seek a caliphate represent the West's primary and most virulent enemies. Killing scores of them at a single stroke would send the much needed message to this world's Muslim community. Namely, "Those who plot to make Islam the dominant global force will DIE." human rights in Islam They utter this tortured oxymoron with a straight face. It is the face of EVIL. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-09-02 14:53 |
| #4 the Hebrew "el-Kadish" (the Holy) designation of Jerusalem. Could that be Aramaic, McZoid? My Hebrew is very rusty, but it seems to me that Yerushalayim ha-Kadesh (accent on the final syllable) would be more correct... |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-09-02 09:39 |
| #3 Amman - Muslim scholars and political and legal experts from 20 countries started a conference here Saturday to discuss possible mechanisms of encoding the Islamic principles, values and philosophy of government.... |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2007-09-02 03:32 |
| #2 "Al Kuds" is of course the rip off of the Hebrew "el-Kadish" (the Holy) designation of Jerusalem. There is no record of a single Caliphate EVER having visited that city. It had limited significance to Muslims until the foundation of Israel. Arab leaders did NOT visit it from the foundation up to the Israeli capture of 1967. The cardinal principle of Islamic governance is: deceit. I have been spreading the word that Obama is named after the parrot headed winged horse ("Barack") that Islam's phony "prophet" supposedly flew to "el-Kadish" during his "night journey to heaven and hell." People need to know both that and the fact that he was a Muslim indoctrinate up to the age of 9, at least. (By the way, on the "night journey" the "prophet" saw his parent's "heads boiling" in hell, and asked Gabriel to plead with allah to place them in a spot where they would only simmer. What would Freud make of that tale?) |
| Posted by: McZoid 2007-09-02 02:24 |
| #1 Why all the fuss? I don't think it should be too hard to get it to fit it on one sheet of toilet paper. |
| Posted by: gorb 2007-09-02 02:01 |