Most Kurds are Sunnis and they are quite conservative, not as liberal as people think
kicklhimintheballs on
All the parties being based on some inborn identity and not ideology looks horrible to be honest.
Frequent_Dog_6931 on
Feyli are also Kurds. (Shia Kurds)
Deep_Head4645 on
These are religions
Are you telling me they are voting for religions?
GustavoistSoldier on
The Iraq war massively increased Iran’s influence over Iraq.
bloodrider1914 on
Why are there so few Sunnis in southern Iraq?
PuzzleheadedPea2401 on
According to Reuters the US threatened Iraq recently not to allow 58 of these Shia lawmakers into the new coalition government, on pain of cutting Iraq off from the dollar system.
No-Lunch4249 on
I had no idea that Iraq’s political parties were still mostly arranged around religion and ethnicity. Learned something new today just off that alone
Sinefiasmenos22 on
Btw for those who don’t know Mandeans are the of the few gnostic religions left around today which is intresting.
M-Rayusa on
I’d expect Kurds to get at least one MP from Diyala province.
My guess is that the Kurds are divided into Sunni and Shia 50-50 and they couldn’t organize
veerKg_CSS_Geologist on
It says distribution by political alignment but actually shows distribution by ethnic/religious alignment.
Hokton on
Babylon counts as Christian or Shia?
Karlitu7 on
So they don’t vote for a political direction but for ethnicity. Imagine the US would have a white party that is full of white people that make politics only for white people… oh well…
ekokoo on
it is kind of diabolical to align politics and ideologies with ethnicities and religion
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I’m surprised 6 Shias won in Mosul
Most Kurds are Sunnis and they are quite conservative, not as liberal as people think
All the parties being based on some inborn identity and not ideology looks horrible to be honest.
Feyli are also Kurds. (Shia Kurds)
These are religions
Are you telling me they are voting for religions?
The Iraq war massively increased Iran’s influence over Iraq.
Why are there so few Sunnis in southern Iraq?
According to Reuters the US threatened Iraq recently not to allow 58 of these Shia lawmakers into the new coalition government, on pain of cutting Iraq off from the dollar system.
I had no idea that Iraq’s political parties were still mostly arranged around religion and ethnicity. Learned something new today just off that alone
Btw for those who don’t know Mandeans are the of the few gnostic religions left around today which is intresting.
I’d expect Kurds to get at least one MP from Diyala province.
My guess is that the Kurds are divided into Sunni and Shia 50-50 and they couldn’t organize
It says distribution by political alignment but actually shows distribution by ethnic/religious alignment.
Babylon counts as Christian or Shia?
So they don’t vote for a political direction but for ethnicity. Imagine the US would have a white party that is full of white people that make politics only for white people… oh well…
it is kind of diabolical to align politics and ideologies with ethnicities and religion