[lbo-talk] Latest Iraq Survey data: Secularism and Nationalism

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Jun 16 08:20:10 PDT 2006


On Jun 15, 2006, at 6:44 PM, Kevin Robert Dean wrote:


> But at the same time, significantly more Iraqis support democratic
> values, including the separation of religion and politics.
>
> In 2004, 27 percent of the 2,325 Iraqi adults surveyed strongly
> agreed that Iraq would be a better place if religion and politics
> were separated. In 2006, 41 percent of 2,701 adults surveyed
> strongly agreed.
>
> "The findings of this second survey show that even though Iraqis
> have a more negative attitude to foreigners, especially Americans,
> they are moving closer to American values

So it's an "American value" to separate religion & politics? Someone should tell American politics about this.

Doug



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