Iraqis on church and state.

According to a poll conducted by the Program on International Policy Attitudes, most Iraqis do not believe clerics should have a role in the new government. This does not mean that Iraqis support a separation of church and state as purportedly exists in the United States, since an overwhelming majority of Iraqis think Iraq should be an Islamic state. Eighty-eight percent agreed that the “new Iraqi constitution should ensure the Islamic identity of Iraq” (IRI, August 2004). In an April 2005 IRI poll 92% agreed that “the new constitution should make Islam the official religion.”