In an effort to remove the last remaining traces of Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime, the Iraqi Parliament today adopted a new national flag.
The new flag will keep the same colors, but will no longer feature the three stars that symbolized the Baathist ideals of unity, freedom, and socialism, and Saddam Hussein’s handwritten calligraphy of the Koranic incantation “Allah u Akbar.”
The incantation, which means God is great, will remain on the flag, though it will now be written in the Kufic calligraphic style of ancient Mesopotamia.
-Samantha Giles
