Iraqis Adopt Islamic Constitution

America brings down a secular dictatorship…to make room for a theocratic one:

According to Qanbar, the interim constitution charter will recognize Islam as a major source of legislation and ban any laws which violate the tenets of the Muslim faith. U.S. officials and secular-minded members got their way with the phrase "a source" — out of many sources — but the ban on laws that violate Islam was aimed at pleasing conservatives.

While many will point out that the constitution is a compromise between faith and reason, a relevant quote on the nature of such compromises comes to mind:

There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win.

-- Ayn Rand

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