Make women ineligible to become head of government, state: Khelafat Andolon tells Dhaka

Radical Islamism and Jihad

Make women ineligible to become head of government, state: Khelafat Andolon tells Dhaka

By Staff Correspondent

Thursday, July 31, 2008

BKA at the talks put forward a 30-point demand that includes formulation of an electoral policy. They demanded that the policy would have to ensure a free, fair, meaningful and acceptable election while barring the agnostics, identified corruptionists, black money holders, murderers, terrorists, convicts and bankrupts from participating in the elections.

They also proposed increasing parliamentary seats in accordance with the rising population in the country.

Zafrullah said handing over the responsibility of the country's education to any NGO would be disastrous. "We also urged the government [to take a stand] against foreign interference in our internal affairs," he added.

Commenting on bringing BNP to the dialogue, Commerce and Education Adviser Hossain Zillur Rahman, one of the participants on the government side, told journalists that the government, if necessary, would send a fresh invitation letter to the BNP. "We are confident that BNP will join the dialogue."

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Islam, the law, and the sovereignty of God, Islamic Sharia Laws, NewAgeIslam.com

Islamic Sharia Laws

Islam, the law, and the sovereignty of God

By Mark Gould

Some will criticize even this second argument as presupposing, if only implicitly, the type of liberal constitutionalism found in the modern West. I argue, in contrast, that if we are to label a regime constitutional, the regime must enable a positivist legal system, one where legislation, the formulation of new laws that are accepted as procedurally valid, is both possible and legitimate. While the cultural content of these laws is variable and might well differ in Christian-dominated and Islam-dominated states (or in the umma), the possibility of lawmaking, and not simply law finding, is a universal requisite for a constitutional system. All constitutional regimes constitute mechanisms allowing for reasoned legislation and adjudication, where the procedures regulating them must be legitimate in terms of the legal regime’s constitutional values and the society’s conscience collective, the society’s civil religion, if they are to justify successfully. Simply, constitutions must legitimate the capacity to create new law in a manner akin to the positivist portrait of legislation.

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