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In this xenophobic and theocratically Islamic country, such a statement borders on categorizing the protesting women as blasphemers and foreigners.

With them out of the negotiations, the theocratically inclined Shiites and the separatist-minded Kurds found it easy to cut a deal that favored their narrow interests at national expense.

For example, Roger Williams found it necessary to found a new colony in Rhode Island to escape persecution in the theocratically dominated colony of Massachusetts.

In describing the meetings in Washington last week, a State Department official said that as an unofficial representative of the Supreme Council, Imam Husainy had probably represented the most theocratically oriented wing among seven Shiite clerics from the United States and Canada who were invited.