As the world focuses on Israel’s war against Hamas, Turkey is exploiting the opportunity to expand its military assaults on the Kurds, now including in them Syrian Christians accused of aiding the Kurds. Turkey has reportedly “carried out 76 drone strikes in the northeast” this year, but Turkey continues to present these attacks as fighting […]
Iran-linked ‘suicide plane’ kills at least 6 Kurdish fighters on Syrian base housing US troops
Iran-backed militias have been consistently escalating their attacks in the region against the United States and Israel. The ongoing (and escalating) Houthi attacks on the Red Sea not only present a physical danger to those aboard the merchant ships and to the Red Sea Coalition, but an economic challenge one as well. And now, Kurdish […]
Turkey escalates war on Kurds, ready to launch aggressive ground assault amid warnings by Russia and West
Syrian Kurdish fighters have been fighting against the Islamic State for years, and have managed to create “a semi-autonomous region in Northern Syria.” After Kurdish fighters “consolidated control over territory captured from the Islamic State in northern Syria, Turkey and Turkish-backed Syrian militias, including the Free Syrian Army (FSA), moved to recapture cities and expel […]
Syria: aid workers at risk in Al-Hol camp, following murder of medic
As a rule, every non-Muslim group and individual faces a threat in the presence of jihadists, and the greater the number of them, the greater the likelihood of violence. “The camp is controlled by the semi-autonomous Kurdish administration”, and last year, the Syrian Observatory “recorded 91 murders by IS in Al-Hol, with most of the […]
Turkey: Man stabbed to death for playing Kurdish music during the Islamic call to prayer
20-year-old Baris Cakan was attacked by three men and stabbed in the heart. Why? One account says it was because he was listening Kurdish music on his balcony. Music in general is haram in Islam (Hadith Qudsi 19:5), and from the Turkish standpoint, Kurdish music is even worse. But according to another account of the […]
Kurds in Iraq besieged by Arabs yet again
The greatest divide within the world-wide Ummah, the community of Muslim believers, is that between the Arabs, who are 20% of the world’s Muslims, and non-Arab Muslims, who constitute 80% of Muslims world-wide. Arabs have long believed, and acted, as if they are superior to non-Arab Muslims. And many non-Arab Muslims appear to share that […]
‘Inclusive’ Islamic State finds job for handicapped man — as a jihad suicide bomber
Like every other progressive, inclusive organisation, Islamic State offers equal opportunity considerations to its staff. Enjoy this sweet testimonial: “It’s true that I’m disabled, but I’ve been given a lot of suggestions in terms of areas I could work in….Assisted by Islamic State, disabled Abu Abdillah Ash-Shami chose to work in the short-term high-risk area […]
Turkish leader declares jihad on Kurds, dispatches soldiers to “decimate” them
Erdogan launched what Islamists are openly calling a jihad against the Kurdish YPG faction. Thousands of Turkish soldiers, along with tanks and artillery, have blasted their way across the Turkish border into Syria. Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the model of a clever jihadist leader who employs a combination of stealth and violent means to attain his expansionist dreams […]
Turkey threatens action against US-allied Syrian Kurds plan
Turkey has vowed to: take action against a United States-supported plan to establish a Kurdish-majority force of 30,000 troops in Syria “regardless of who backs them”, cautioned Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. Turkey is desperate to crush the Kurds. The tension is historic: When Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founded the modern republic in the ashes of […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: The Berbers and Islam as a Vehicle for Arab Supremacism (Part II)
The second great fissure in Islam, after that of the Sunnis and Shia, and to which our discussion of the Berbers in Part I is obviously relevant, is that between Arab Muslims and the 80% of the world’s Muslims who are not Arabs. It bears repeating (see the first paragraph of Part I), that because […]