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Everybody’s Happy Nowadays

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Religious Shiites do not have to legally enshrine Shariah, or Koranic law, to exercise their will. Enforcement of Islamic practices is done on the streets, in the shadows. “We’re trying to do it culturally rather than impose it by law,” said Furat al-Shara, the local representative for the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq … “In the mosques and universities where people learn, we tell them it’s a negative thing to do,” Mr. Shara said of drinking alcohol or of women appearing in public without scarves. Sheik Abdul Sattar al-Bahadli, a senior official in the Sadr movement, which is prominent in the National Assembly, summed up the conservative viewpoint: “If Shariah exists everywhere in the world, in China, Korea or Japan, for example, and not just in Iraq, everyone will be happy.”

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