No-Confidence Vote Getting Likely for Iraqi PM al-Maliki

[jjmuneer]

This assh*** is trying to play the Kurds against eachother, he is using reilgon as a prime factor for an ethnic identity. Which in itself makes no sense.

Maliki, the Fayli Kurds, and the Return to an Ethno-Sectarian Political Discourse in Iraq


by Reidar Visser-Ever since he came to power in 2006, a key issue for Iraq’s prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki has been the tension between, on the one hand, a majoritarian, all-Iraqi politicial discourse, and, on the other, a discourse that instead emphasises the identity of separate ethnicities and sects.

In a speech to a gathering of Fayli Kurds yesterday, Maliki certainly emphasised ethno-sectarian identity. Firstly, Maliki stressed that the Faylis had suffered more than any other Iraqi community because they are “both Kurds and Shiites”. But not only that. Maliki advised the Faylis to seek “unity” within the component (mukawwin), meaning he demanded political conformity across the imagined “Fayli Kurd community”. He went on to suggest that the census to be carried out in Iraq in the future would make clear how many Fayli Kurds there are in Iraq! This would effectively transform the census to a questionnaire about more than mother tongue (Arabic, Kurdish or Turkish) and main religion (Muslim versus Christian): It is mainly their Shiite sectarian identity that sets the Faylis apart from other Kurds.

Seen in isolation, one could wonder whether Maliki perhaps was simply following a strategy of reinforcing sub-divisions among the Kurds, as seen before in Iraqi history and perhaps most prominently in the case of the Shabak around Mosul. But Maliki’s tendency to focus more on the components than the whole has been a consistent trend since the disappointing result for his State of Law coalition in the 7 March 2010 parliamentary elections. Back then, Maliki expressed disappointment that his hope of building a political-majority government had been crushed, and that the alternative of an ethno-sectarian power-sharing formula would likely lead to ineffective government. However, Maliki soon seemed to adapt to the new realities. Already in August 2010, people in his alliance (and the US ambassador to Iraq, Christopher Hill) expressed the view that the prime minister “had to be a Shiite”. This year, Maliki and his State of Law allies have increasingly expressed the view that certain posts should be given to sects, as seen especially in the call for the defence ministry to go to a Sunni. These are all important steps towards the permanent Lebanonisation of Iraq.

There are of course examples of brave resistance and cases where Iraqi national sentiment clearly does survive. When Turkmens in Kirkuk recently demanded an ethnic Turkmen militia to protect them, Sunni Arabs from the same area instead called for central government intervention, notwithstanding the fact that the Iraqi army is now Shiite-dominated. Similarly, those Sunni Arabs were among the first to reject the idea of a Sunni federal region when it hit the political agenda this summer.

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[burnsss]

Milky boy has learned alot from Saddam and former arab chauvinist. Their tactic will fail like before and he can only cause minor damage, mostly by buying off delusional jash. Times have changed, the oil is running out and krg sits on 45 billion barrels of oil. Only war can do any major changes, but Milky boy does not dare to try any moves on kurdistan, i hope he learned from the past that we south kurds are rebels and warriors that never give up, not even chemical bombs stopped us.

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Maliki's opponents to meet soon in Erbil, says source

ERBIL, Sept.5 (AKnews)- Kurdistan Region's President Massoud Barzani, Iraqiya List Leader Ayad Allawi and Sadr Current Leader Moqtada al-Sadr will meet next week in Salahaddin resort of Erbil, Ittihad newspaper reported today.

A close source to Allawi told the United Arab Emirates newspaper that Allawi contacted Sadr to hold the meeting this week but since Sadr arrived late in Baghdad the meeting was postponed to next week.

The source said the leaders will discuss the position of the parties which oppose Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the latest political developments and the reform package offered by National Alliance (NA, which reinstated Maliki for the second successive term.)

Discussing the issue of withdrawing confidence from Maliki in the meeting is "unlikely but not impossible" said the source.

The source added Allawi, Maliki's elections' rival, intends to buttress Iraqiya's relations with the other parties and increase the political pressure on Maliki.

The three leaders who on different occasions described Maliki as a "dictator" met more than once and demanded NA to name another candidate to replace Maliki. The NA in turn stated it will keep Maliki and offer a political reform package.