Iraq’s constitution

Iraqi Kurds Saturday rejected suggestions the country should be proclaimed an Islamic state in the new constitution and said there would be no compromise on the incorporation of oil-rich Kirkuk into their autonomous northern region. Massoud Barzani, the president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan, assured Kurdish MPs that he would also insist on federalism and retaining the Kurdish peshmerga militia when he meets top Iraqi leaders to discuss the constitution Sunday in Baghdad.
"We will not accept that Iraq's identity is Islamic," Barzani told an emergency session of the autonomous Kurdistan parliament in Arbil.
He also rejected suggestions that Iraq be termed an Arab nation.
"Let Arab Iraq be part of the Arab nation -- we are not," the Kurdish leader said.

Alhamdulillah!

Iraq