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| Iraq-Jordan |
| New Iraqi flag, now with a darker shade of blue! |
| 2004-04-29 |
| Via Allah. EFL. Iraqi leaders presented a new national flag Wednesday after protests that a version unveiled earlier this week resembled the flag of Israel. Pic of the new one here. The new design was more or less the same as the one announced earlier this week, but the stripes and crescent were a considerably darker shade of blue than the original version published in an Iraqi newspaper, which showed the stripes as being light blue. As the Moon God put it, it’s been "de-Jewed". |
| Posted by:someone |
| #9 crescent moon and islam goes hand in hand |
| Posted by: smokeysinse 2004-04-29 10:04:24 PM |
| #8 ex-lib> This link here: http://islam.about.com/library/weekly/aa060401a.htm says that the crescent moon was linked with Islam only after the Ottoman empire conquered Constantinople -- that it was an earlier symbol of that city dating back to the worship of Artemis as a moon-goddess. I admit I'd never heard of that before -- I'd not even heard that Constantinople had such a symbol. So take with a grain of salt. |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2004-04-29 9:11:50 PM |
| #7 It's not a moon it's a proto-pacman |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-04-29 7:54:55 PM |
| #6 I'll like it when the Kurds do too |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-04-29 7:54:16 PM |
| #5 Aris is right I think. Why always a moon? What is the symbolism? |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2004-04-29 7:50:42 PM |
| #4 Yeah, this one looks better to me also. Though it still looks bottom-heavy -- I think that it would have looked better had they made the stripes vertical and placed them on the left side. |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2004-04-29 7:43:06 PM |
| #3 I'm still dialin in about 20 percentum more cyan and a tad more black. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-04-29 7:26:44 PM |
| #2 I actually like this one better. It's not quite so... kindergarten art classy. |
| Posted by: Cthulhu Akbar 2004-04-29 4:49:37 PM |
| #1 A deeper shade of pale? |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-04-29 4:25:59 PM |