GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Islam: No quarter for human rights

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Jihad Watch

13February2011 10:56amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: [NATO Chief Anders Fogh] Rasmussen said: "I would expect the Afghan government as well as all Afghan institutions to live up to the requirements as stated in the Afghan constitution including full respect for human rights."

But that is precisely the problem. The Afghan constitution identifies the country as an Islamic republic, and says that "followers of other religions are free to exercise their faith and perform their religious rites within the limits of the provisions of law, " but "no law can be contrary to the beliefs and provisions of the sacred religion of Islam" (Chapter 1, Articles 1-3).

An amendment in the tenth chapter of the constitution adds: "The provisions of adherence to the fundamentals of the sacred religion of Islam and the regime of the Islamic Republic cannot be amended." (read full report)

 

 

 

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