Brave New Democratic Iraq Update: "Iraq: Militant Group Threatens Female Students in Kirkuk," from AKI, with thanks to Johnathan:
Arbil, 6 June (AKI) - The Ansar al-Sunna, the main Islamist group in Iraqi Kurdistan, has threatened to either kill or kidnap the female students of Kirkuk, the oil capital of northern Iraq, should they wear trousers, put on make-up or fail to cover their heads with a scarf. A number of posters issuing such a threat have been distributed and affixed on the walls of Kirkuk, a local source said. In the poster, the Islamist group explicitly requested female students to "wear the headscarf and the traditional black Islamic gown."
This is clearly a hoax because Iraq now has Freedom and Democracy, and Islam is a Religion of Peace anyway. Those Zionists are spreading false information again!
The muslim men of the ME better hope that their women dont rise up one day. 1000+ years of being treated like dirt would constitute an awful payback. Yet another reason why I just cant see islam taking over the world.
Those women will not rise, they dont even want to be liberated, especially not by infidel pigs...
Try to turn them around... again : WW III
anyhopes that the Kurds will outdo the sunni or shites? l think you have a group that is very loud and very dangerous making the majority fear them. what does it take for real men to stand up for freedom and justice?
Lulu, remember we are talking about ME men, not real men. Real Men don't love Allah.
Since the US began protecting the Kurdish area with the no-fly zone policy, the Kurds have managed to develop economically in some areas. But, they have never given up their role as Muslim overlords over the dhimmis, the Assyrian Christians. Land confiscation of tradition Assyrian territories occured as American planes flew overhead. Since the fall of Baghdad, the Kurdish Muslim radicals, like their counterparts in the central and southern parts of Iraq, have managed to do even more harm to the Assyrians. Many Assyrians were prevented from voting in the various elections of the past year. Attacks on Christians, as individuals and their churches, have increased. As mentioned in the above article, Assyrian/Christian women are under threat to wear "Islamic dress" or face the consequences. In other words, a Kurd is a Kurd is a......Muslim in thought, word and deed.
Diana West wonders whether bringing sharia law to Iraq is really worth the sacrifice:
http://www.townhall.com/print/print_story.php?sid=200747&loc=/opinion/columns/dianawest/2006/06/12/200747.html
During a TV discussion last night, Yasmin Alibhai Brown was lamenting the end of the easing of restrictions on women in Iran after Ahamedinejad's coming to power. "Women were just letting a little hair peep out from under their hijab and now they're having to put it back in again," was how she summed it up. Perhaps someone should devise a scale for this: 1/2" careless, 1" risque, 1 1/2" naughty, 2" brazen, 2 1/2" an arrestable offence, etc. I notice Ms Brown doesn't bother to hijab up.
Questions for anyone to answer...
1. The Kurdish Workers Party, i.e. the PKK, how do they fit into all this? Supposedly the PKK is Stalinist. I can't see the PKK working with Al Queda. Under what conditions would such an alliance occur?
2. How are Kurks recognized by other Arabs? Armenians have names that are somewhat distinct. Kurks have Arabic names....As I have it.. How do Kurds know one another in a crowd? Are there distinctive Kurd names also? I can imagine PKK members have secret handshakes or whatever to identify themselves to one another. How do you tell a Kurd from a Sunni, from a Shiite?
3. ASALA? With the Kurds getting something of a defined territory, will ASALA be reinvigorated? ASALA was Marxist-Leninist...would the Kurdish area of Iraq see a radical leftist government come to power should things become more fractured over there?
Maryrose is absolutely correct in her post above. While US, British (and unfortunately, Israeli) propoganda tries to make the so-called Kurdish zone out to be a liberated bastion of freedom, the reality is quite different.
A mere century ago, most of what is now Iraqi Kurdistan was Assyria. The Kurdish homeland was in Iran (then Persia) centered on Mahabad and still called Kordestan. The Kurds were fellow Sunnis and loyal to the Ottoman Caliph. The Ottomans had a longstanding policy of inviting Kurds from Iran to settle in the Christian areas. When the Ottomans began their genocide against the Armenian and Assyrian Christians the records show that Kurds were often the most viscious persecutors of Armenians and Assyrians.
Today, it appears that little has changed. Right now, over a third of the Assyrian Christian population from Iraq are refugees in Syria. The new Islamic government which the US and Britain have imposed on Iraq allows open season on Christians, Yezidis, Mandeans, Alawites and any other non-Muslims.
This second genocide began almost immediately after the fall of the Ba'ath dictatorship. As early as February 2005, President Bush recieved a letter from the Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights about the situation of non-Muslims in Iraq. However, Bush and his devoutly Muslim Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad, and his dhimmi general John Abizaid, have all ignored the plight of these persecuted peoples.
To read the Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights 2005 letter to bush go to:
http://www.dhimmi.com/AppealtoPresidentBushonBehalfofIraqMinorities.htm
Many think of the Kurds as an entity. In fact Kurd is a disparate identity, there are seven major kurdish languages, 27 dialects, as many religions (Yazdi, Sunni, Shi'a and various sects amongst the Shi'a) see also Ethnic Differentation amongst the Kurds
Here's a good chart showing the differences in the Kurds (language, religion, etc) The Kurdish People
As regards their political affilations, I don't think there is a semblance of accuracy in calling the PKK Stalinists. The Kurds, and indeed many Arab and Iranian groups embraced various forms of Marxism (for the simple reason that there is a lot of similiarity between "Pure" Marxism and the ideals of Pure Islam (non racist, eqalitarian, communal ownership of property, classless society).
The PKK is based in Turkey (The so called Turkish Kurds or "bad Kurds", the KDP and PUK (Kurdish Democratic Parties and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan are Iraqi based so called Good Kurds), politics is merely a tool, (just as in the west were politics are a tool by which those with ideological similarities and a will to power come together under umbrellas (Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Left, Right).
Google Good Kurd, Bad Kurd or read about this documentary of that name
Tis pathetic how ignorant westerners are (Right and left) of the world in which they live,and the one in which they have so much to rant and militate about.
Turns my stomach at the way you clowns rant against the left and liberals, while simultaneously acting every bit the blind, ignorant and apologetic muslim when it comes to your own sins and contributions to the mayhem.
The left is no different mind you.