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Listen to Ayad Jamal Aldin talk about secularism in Iraq starting at 3:49
are Islamic Arab reactionary regimes that you talked about
and even the existing parties in Iraq are copies of these regimes
eminence and on what should it be built
God willing, and I do not disagree with
Professor Fawaz that democracy cannot be true in Iraq unless after decades,
of nations are not measured in years or decades
a dictatorial ruler and another new Saddam
people, the son of this civilization and the son of such a culture
regime that extended for more than fourteen centuries
we have to reconsider the past, in order to overcome obstacles of the future
Iraqi people for more than three decades
from the ashes and the crumbles, will generate
will generate a new Iraqi man, a man who believes in democracy
Your eminence then you are with the separation of religion from the state?
Without a doubt
That's surprising from a religious man.
On the contrary, this must come from the throat of a religious man
state to save the religion from the state
Historically, the Arabic Islamic state destroyed the religion
and fragmented the religion to doctrines, sects, groups and communities
Since the establishment of the Umayyad, Abbasid, Ottoman and contemporary states
the dictator and the religious ruler interpreted the Koran according to his will
he monopolized hte Koran, he abducted the Koran
and the Koran from the claws of the state
The Koran must be in good hands, the hands of Islamic scholars
If the state is secular and does not oppress religion, in my opinion
the cohesion between Sunnis and Shiites will be restored
the science and fear of God will be the ruler of the scholars
and not the intervention of the dictatorial state
we demand that in order to protect religion
and save it from the claws of the state as I said
This talk is creative and progressive to a large degree
and in fact makes a person proud that this talk comes from his eminence
and the major point he mentioned: "you must protect the religion from the state,"
to stabilize and deepen the authoritarian state, which decayed our bones
and especially the bones of the great Iraqi people
these movements and this creative, progressive talk
in the rebuilding of the political life
on the constitutional and liberal basis, but also to build a modern state
that respects all communities and segments of the Iraqi people
Mr. Patrick Clawson, does religion have any impact on US foreign or domestic policy?
Well Americans are very religious people
but we follow the same principles advocated for Iraq by Mr. Jamal Aldin
we separate between religion and state
large extent but when we meet in politics
there are people of different religions making political decisions
but do not allow the state to impose religion on anyone
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