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The current flag was
was adopted at the same
time as the new constitution of the country,
3 October 1996.
Jos Poels and Mark Sensen, 05 Apr 97
According to an article in The Flag Bulletin
[tfb] 174,
the latest (1996) version
[see previous]
has the crescent/stars
facing the fly, with the words "Allah" added to
the top fly and "Muhammed" to the bottom of the
hoist, both in white and in simplified Arabic.
With the exception of the
Socialistic red,
the symbolism of the flag has remained consistent.
The green colour and the crescent are symbols of
Islam. The four stars represent the 4 islands of
the Comoros group, even
though one of these, Mayotte,
is a French territory. The Flag Bulletin
suggests that the green in the
1975 and
1992 flags may
was lighter than in the others. Neither this change
of colour nor the positioning/orientation of the
crescent and stars appear to have any broader
significant. The chopping and changing of flags is,
in short, due to political factionalism.
Stuart Notholt, 22 May 1997