| Like religious fundamentalists in the United States and around the world, these parties use religion as a means of asserting a reactionary political agenda that begins with the subjugation of women within the family. That's why the first battle over the new constitution concerns family status laws governing marriage, divorce and women's inheritance and property rights. The Islamists are pushing to replace Iraq's current statutes""among the most progressive in the Middle East""with language that would subordinate women's human rights to arbitrary interpretations of Islamic law. |
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