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Iraq's AMS describes changing flag as
'illegitimate'
23.1.2008
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January
23, 2008
BAGHDAD, -- Iraq's Association of Muslim
Scholars (AMS) on Wednesday described the
parliament's decision to change the Iraqi flag as
"illegitimate".
"The AMS is convinced that every thing approved or
adopted in the time of occupation will not continue
after its withdrawal," the AMS said in a statement.
"This came within a series of decisions that affect
Iraq's sovereignty," it asserted. |
Iraqi temporary national flag |
The Iraqi parliament voted by majority on Tuesday
over a draft to modify the nation's flag by removing
the three stars and keeping the words Allahu Akbar,
or God is Great.
Some 110 members out of 165 present members approved
the flag change.
The voting came upon a proposal to remove the three
stars from the Iraq flag and retaining the Allahu
Akbar words in green Arabic Kufi calligraphy.
The current Iraqi flag has three colors - red, white
and black - with three green stars symbolizing the
dissolved Baath Party of the former regime. The
regime of Saddam Hussein had added Allahu Akbar to
the flag months before the outbreak of the 1991 Gulf
War.
The Iraqi parliament had debated during the past
couple of weeks the first and second readings of a
draft to change the national flag.
Iraqi Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani had
urged the central government in Baghdad to speed up
changing the Iraqi flag ahead of the Arab
parliamentarians conference to be hosted by Erbil,www.ekurd.net
the Iraqi Kurdistan's capital, in February 2008.
Barzani had affirmed that the Kurds "would never
raise the current flag because it still carries the
three stars symbolizing the (former) Baath Party."
VOI
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