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Iranian Kurdistan: Muslim brothers behead their sister in honor killing over her romantic relationship

Dec 5, 2020 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer 3 Comments

This incident is reminiscent of a strange story in the Qur’an. A mysterious figure, known as Khidr in Islamic tradition, kills a boy in an apparently random and gratuitous attack. He then explains: “And as for the boy, his parents were believers, and we feared that he would overburden them by transgression and disbelief. So […]

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Filed Under: Featured, honor killing, Iran, Kurdistan Tagged With: Sanandaj, Sargul Habibi, Sne, Sorkhedzaj, Suvraze

Syria: Brother of Women’s Protection Units fighter murders her because she ‘brought shame and dishonor upon family’

Sep 20, 2020 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer 16 Comments

An indelible detail leaps out from this report: “In the region, there is a history of men being accused of killing women or girls perceived to have brought shame to a family or tribe being given token sentences, or in other cases, escaping justice entirely.” Now, why is that? Her brother said he killed her […]

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Filed Under: honor killing, Kurdistan, Syria Tagged With: Darbasiyyah

Honor killing in Iraqi Kurdistan: Muslim murders his two daughters, hides bodies

Sep 15, 2020 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer 30 Comments

“Violence against women is common in Iraqi Kurdistan, despite government promises to prevent it.” Why is that? A culture of violence, the foundational text of which commands men to beat women from whom they “fear disobedience” (Qur’an 4:34), is going to give rise to this sort of thing. In the Qur’an also is the strange […]

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Filed Under: Featured, honor killing, Kurdistan Tagged With: Chamchamal, Sulaimani governorate

Syria: Muslims demand Christian convert teacher turn over his school to them, arrest him for apostasy

Aug 18, 2020 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

“Mr Muhammad, who works as an English teacher and headmaster, refused the group’s orders to hand his school building over to them so they could turn it into an Islamic school.” That was an unconscionable display of effrontery from a man who, as far as the Muslims of Failaq al-Sham were concerned, should have submitted […]

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Filed Under: Apostasy, Islamic supremacism, Kurdistan, Syria Tagged With: Afrin, Failaq al-Sham, Jaqmaq Kibir, Radwan Muhammad, Rajo

Syrian Government Enraged That Kurds Intend to Sell Kurdish Oil

Aug 9, 2020 10:00 am By Hugh Fitzgerald

Northeastern Syria is inhabited – and has been for many centuries – by the Kurdish people. That territory also happens to be the oil-bearing part of Syria, currently held by local Kurdish forces of the YPG (People’s Protection Units), and by the American troops still in Syria, as President Trump said, to “guard the oil.” […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Kurdistan, Syria Tagged With: Syrian Democratic Forces

Turks fight Kurdish Leftists and Antifa in Vienna, Austrian Chancellor accuses Erdogan of stoking tensions in EU

Jul 4, 2020 9:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz “has accused Turkey of sowing strife in Europe” after members of the Turkish Grey Wolves, an ultra-nationalist Turkish political organization, “clashed with Kurdish leftists and their Antifa allies in Vienna.” This is nothing new. “In 2016, the two groups clashed in the city of Duisburg and both Turks and Kurds briefly […]

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Filed Under: Austria, European Union, Featured, Kurdistan, Turkey Tagged With: Antifa, Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Recep Tayyip Edogan, Sebastian Kurz, Vienna

Kurds Attempt to Return to a Zoroastrian Future

Apr 19, 2020 8:00 am By Andrew Harrod

A “growing number of Kurds…are leaving Islam to embrace the faith of their ancestors—Zoroastrianism,” reported Agence France Presse (AFP) in 2019, a development similar to that of many neighboring Iranians. These Kurds have experienced in Islam only oppression and have turned to the ancient Zoroastrian faith as a belief alternative, thereby continuing a longstanding Kurdish […]

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Filed Under: Kurdistan Tagged With: Abdullah Öcalan, Zoroastrianism

Germany: Muslim “refugee” admits being bomb-maker for planned jihad massacre

Mar 22, 2020 8:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Kurds are mostly Sunni Muslims, and are largely covered in the media as a persecuted minority that is especially under threat from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In January 2018, 90,000 mosques prayed Qur’anic conquest prayers calling on Muslims to be “ruthless against unbelievers” and for victory against the Kurds, right before thousands of Turkish […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Germany, immigration, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Kurdistan Tagged With: Arthur's Hill, Fatah Mohammed Abdullah

Iraqi Kurdistan: Islamic Scholars Union says “Anyone who dies due to Covid-19 is a martyr per Islamic Sharia”

Mar 15, 2020 9:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

The Supreme Fatwa Committee, affiliated with the Kurdistan Region’s Islamic Scholars Union, much like the Iranian mullahs, has opted for theocracy over all reasoning and science.  The Committee issued a statement about the continuation of Friday prayers during the outbreak of coronavirus: According to Islamic Sharia, daily congregational prayers as well as Friday prayers in […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Iraq, Kurdistan, Sharia Tagged With: coronavirus, Friday prayer

Iraq: Kurdish Muslim authorities allow sale of anti-Christian shoes that allow wearer to trample on cross

Jan 1, 2020 8:00 am By Robert Spencer

Islamic groups in the US have successfully protested against shoes that they claim bear the name of Allah. Will they protest against this? What do you think? “It is a pity that empty slogans about tolerance and mutual respect, intended for naive Europeans, find fertile soil in Western media and mislead the public.” Indeed. The […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Iraq, Islamic bigotry and intolerance, Islamic supremacism, Kurdistan Tagged With: Erbil, Gaziantep, Mega Mall

In Kurdistan, “Hitler” Restaurant Shut Down Despite Its Popularity

Oct 28, 2019 10:00 am By Hugh Fitzgerald

With the Kurds in the news, it is instructive to recall that several months ago in Duhok, in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, a restaurateur gave his new restaurant the name “Hitler.” It seemed to go over well with his clientele; Iraqis flocked to the place. But criticism from some, less morally obtuse, Kurds […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Hugh Fitzgerald, Islamic antisemitism, Kurdistan Tagged With: Duhok, Hitler Restaurant, Rebar Mohammed

Fake “Rojava” Narrative and Truths about Syria

Oct 25, 2019 4:00 pm By Ibrahim Seven

In the midst of the bloody war in Syria, the Kurds took advantage of the chaos and claimed control over northern Syria in 2012. They established a so-called “government” there led by the Kurdish Democratic Union Party or PYD. Its armed force is the YPG (People’s Protection Units), which is the Syrian wing of the […]

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Filed Under: Kurdistan, Syria, Turkey Tagged With: Rojava

Myth: Trump betrayed the Kurds. Reality: Kurdish leader thanks Trump for ceasefire.

Oct 24, 2019 11:00 am By Robert Spencer

Don’t look for this in the establishment propaganda media. It doesn’t fit their narrative. Don’t expect retractions, either, from all those who condemned Trump in stinging terms for his actions in Syria. “Military leader of Syrian Kurds thanked President Trump for cease-fire,” by Sophie Sanders, The BL, October 24, 2019: The military leader of the […]

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Filed Under: Donald Trump, Featured, Kurdistan, Syria, Turkey Tagged With: Mazloum Abdi

The Kurds are paying a heavy price in this battle — but not because of a US betrayal

Oct 22, 2019 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Kenneth Timmerman’s article below is eminently reasonable, and he is right: the political and media elites that are howling over Trump’s “betrayal” of the Kurds will keep howling no matter what evidence is presented in defense of the withdrawal, because “none of them truly care about the Kurds.” All they want is a stick they […]

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Filed Under: Donald Trump, Kurdistan, Syria, Turkey Tagged With: Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Rojava

Turkey agrees to cease-fire days after Erdogan said he would never agree to a cease-fire

Oct 17, 2019 4:30 pm By Robert Spencer

The Leftist political and media elites were aghast at Trump’s letter to Erdogan, and heaped ridicule upon it. But it was really just standard American diplomacy: carrots and sticks. It was just phrased a bit more bluntly than diplomatic niceties usually allow. It is long past time for a fresh approach to diplomacy and a […]

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Filed Under: Donald Trump, Featured, Kurdistan, Syria, Turkey Tagged With: Mike Pence, Recep Tayyip Erdogan

General who issued groveling apology for alleged Qur’an desecration says Trump has blood on his hands over Kurds

Oct 15, 2019 12:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Here is General Allen several years ago, issuing an embarrassing and groveling apology to “the noble people of Afghanistan” for an alleged desecration of the Qur’an by U.S. troops: General Allen clearly had no idea how weak and pusillanimous his repeated apologies in this video made him appear to many, if not most, of “the […]

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Filed Under: Donald Trump, Featured, Kurdistan, Turkey Tagged With: John Allen

Actual Conditions for Jews Circa Late 2018 in the Iraqi Kurdistan Paradise: Past as Prologue

Oct 14, 2019 2:00 pm By Andrew Bostom

Res Ipsa Loquitur (Or so  one would think) Largely autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan is a Sharia-based society, per its own Constitution, (Articles 6 & 7):  This Constitution confirms and respects the Islamic identity of the majority of the people of Iraqi Kurdistan. It considers the principles of Islamic Sharia as one of the main sources of […]

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Filed Under: Islamic antisemitism, Kurdistan

Kurdish forces strike deal with Syrian government to oppose Turkish incursion

Oct 14, 2019 11:30 am By Robert Spencer

Handling the problem themselves? What? How can this be used to destroy Trump if they do that? “US-backed Kurdish forces strike deal with Syria’s Assad,” by Helen Regan and Eliza Mackintosh, CNN, October 14, 2019: (CNN) – Abandoned by the United States and facing a deepening Turkish military offensive, Kurdish forces near the northern Syrian […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Kurdistan, Syria, Turkey Tagged With: Bashar al-Assad

Contrary to media myth, Trump did not betray the Kurds

Oct 14, 2019 11:00 am By Robert Spencer

A bit of common sense and clear thinking amid the current hysteria, from Caroline Glick. “Trump did not betray the Kurds,” by Caroline B. Glick, Israel Hayom, October 11, 2019: The near-consensus view of US President Donald Trump’s decision to remove American special forces from the Syrian border with Turkey is that Trump is enabling […]

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Filed Under: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Featured, Kurdistan, Syria, Turkey Tagged With: Bashar Assad, Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Kurdish authorities say 785 Islamic State prisoners attack guards and escape

Oct 14, 2019 10:30 am By Robert Spencer

President Trump suggests that the Kurds may have released them in order to get us involved: ….Kurds may be releasing some to get us involved. Easily recaptured by Turkey or European Nations from where many came, but they should move quickly. Big sanctions on Turkey coming! Do people really think we should go to war […]

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Filed Under: Donald Trump, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Kurdistan, Turkey Tagged With: Ain Issa

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