Showing posts with label Religious Quotas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Religious Quotas. Show all posts

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Iraqi Christians protest end to legislative quotas

Iraqi Christians carry Assyrian Church flags, during a protest in Mosul, Iraq, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2008. Hundreds of Iraqi Christians rallied in northern Iraq on Sunday to protest a new provincial elections law they say denies them their rights because it fails to give them a guaranteed number of seats on provincial councils. Amid growing criticism over the issue, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki appealed to parliament and the electoral commission to restore the quota guaranteed in the old election law. (AP Photo)

Parliament last week approved a new law mandating elections in most of Iraq's 18 provinces. But the law removed a system that reserved a few legislative seats for Christians and other religious minorities.

Religious quotas?? I wonder how that would go over in the American Congress???