The spiritual guide of Iraq’s Shiite Muslim majority, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has called the country’s new transitional law an obstacle to a permanent constitution.
AP reports Al Sistani has issued a fatwa :
“Any law prepared for the transitional period will not gain legitimacy except after it is endorsed by an elected national assembly,” al-Sistani said in a fatwa, or religious ruling, released on his Web site.
“Additionally, this law places obstacles in the path of reaching a permanent constitution for the country that maintains its unity, the rights of its sons of all sects and ethnic backgrounds,” he said.
