{"id":531,"date":"2004-03-08T16:51:50","date_gmt":"2004-03-08T23:51:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-03-08T16:51:50","modified_gmt":"2004-03-08T23:51:50","slug":"al-sistani-denounces-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/08\/al-sistani-denounces-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Sistani Denounces &#8220;Constitution&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iii.co.uk\/shares\/?type=news&#038;articleid=4918413&#038;action=article\" target=\"_blank\">BAGHDAD (AFX) <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The spiritual guide of Iraq&#8217;s Shiite Muslim majority, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has called the country&#8217;s new transitional law an obstacle to a permanent constitution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.620ktar.com\/news\/article.aspx?id=328191\" target=\"_blank\">AP reports <\/a>Al Sistani has issued a fatwa :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Any law prepared for the transitional period will not gain legitimacy except after it is endorsed by an elected national assembly,&#8221; al-Sistani said in a fatwa, or religious ruling, released on his Web site.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD (AFX) The spiritual guide of Iraq&#8217;s Shiite Muslim majority, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has called the country&#8217;s new transitional law an obstacle to a permanent constitution. AP reports Al Sistani has issued a fatwa : &#8220;Any law prepared for the transitional period will not gain legitimacy except after it is endorsed by an elected [&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-531","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\/531","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=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}