{"id":1768,"date":"2005-02-03T02:15:05","date_gmt":"2005-02-03T09:15:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-02-03T02:15:05","modified_gmt":"2005-02-03T09:15:05","slug":"more-sunni-boycott-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/03\/more-sunni-boycott-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"More Sunni boycott threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2005-02\/03\/content_2541811.htm\">Sunnis will boycott drafting of constitution:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The Muslim Scholars Association, the most influential Sunni religious group in Iraq, refused Wednesday to participate in drafting the country&#8217;s permanent constitution, a prior task for the National Assembly (NA) elected last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>   &#8220;We cannot participate in the formulating of a constitution under the occupation,&#8221; Mohammed Bashar Fadhi, the group&#8217;s spokesman told a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>   &#8220;The Americans try to establish sectarianism in the constitution, and the Association would not accept division<br \/>\naccording to the sectarian shares,&#8221; he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>   &#8220;We deeply believe that the constitution written under the occupation would be a reflection of the State Administration Law, which we had already totally rejected, and we would not participate in writing the constitution whatever it costs us,&#8221; he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunnis will boycott drafting of constitution: The Muslim Scholars Association, the most influential Sunni religious group in Iraq, refused Wednesday to participate in drafting the country&#8217;s permanent constitution, a prior task for the National Assembly (NA) elected last Sunday. &#8220;We cannot participate in the formulating of a constitution under the occupation,&#8221; Mohammed Bashar Fadhi, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}