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Petition Submitted to Kurdistan Parliament
to Remove Islam From Constitution
8.4.2007 |
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April
8, 2007
Erbil, Kurdistan region (Iraq), -- A
Kurdistan parliament member said a campaign was
underway to garner the support of Kurdish parties
for the drafting of a secular constitution for
Kurdistan.
"We have submitted a memo collecting the signatures
of 4,000 people to the Kurdistan constitution
drafting committee with the aim of having the 7th
Chapter amended," Suzan Shihab said on Saturday.
The 7th Chapter of Kurdistan constitution provides
that Islam is the official religion of the region.
"We're not against Islam or against the notion that
Islam is the religion of the majority of residents
but we're fighting for democracy and the building of
a civilian society for the next generations," Shihab
said.
She noted that the campaign does not express the
voices of only those 4,000 signatories as there were
organizations, to which thousands of people belong,
have also signed the petition.
"We've started meeting with officials from Kurdish
parties and they all supported our demand," she
said. Shihab referred to a counter-campaign that
started in the Kurdish province of Sulaimaniyah,
where the residents objected the secularization of
the region's constitution.
VOI
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