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A country where democracy is in force is the one you have defined, dear Mieli, where freedom of thought, freedom of religious choice and equal rights for citizens are in force without any discrimination on the grounds of sex or religious belief. Democracy is not a “pret à porter” habit but must be conquered at a high price, a price that the Western and Iraqi peoples are paying dearly. I wonder if the path taken is currently the right one for the conquest of the goal so coveted, in fact, the daily events of the war in progress increasingly report that the control of the population, at least those who make the news and more vociferous, remains by the ulemas and imams of the mosques. It is clear that to leave the period of transition to the Iraqis would be to give free rein to the religious power, which has promptly filled the void left by Saddam and seems to have become the privileged interlocutor of Western governments at this delicate time. Will they not represent the people, or dictate their conditions for the establishment of Islamic law? A law that prevails in all Arab countries but that does not contain the ingredients of what we call democracy: freedom and equality.
Giuseppe Samir Eid
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The published articles intend to provide the tools for a social inclusion of the migratory flow, shed light on human rights and the condition of life of Christians in the Islamic world from which the author come from. Knowledge of the other, of cultural and religious differences are primary ingredients to create peace in the hearts of men everywhere, a prerequisite for a peaceful coexistence and convinced citizenship in the territory.