SUPPORT KURDS AND GAIN A NATION SUPPORTING THE U.S.A.!

Submitted by: Donald Hank

The Kurds need our support.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/08/a_case_for_kurdistan.html

Quote: Kurdistan would help our purposes in the region.  Kurds oppose Arab imperialism.  They are not Arabs, and throughout history, Kurds have suffered from various types of regional imperialism.  The Kurds are more religiously tolerant than most Muslims and resist Islamic radicalism.  Although most Kurds are Sunni Muslims, there are Kurdish Yazidis, Kurdish Yarsans, Kurdish Jews, Kurdish Zoroastrians, and Kurdish Christians.  The stark division of the sexes in orthodox Islamic regimes does not exist among Kurds.  To these people, who have struggled so long to have a nation, Kurdish independence trumps religious militancy.

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In other respects, Kurdistan would be like that other nation in the Middle East that has worked: Lebanon.  This “Switzerland of the Middle East” combined prosperity, freedom, and neutrality.  The Lebanese, like the Kurds, were a people made up of different religions who had decided to live in peace.  As long as that modus vivendi existed, Lebanon was a happy island of tranquility inside a troubled region.  Indeed, Kurdistan might well pick up the role once played by Lebanon in the region.

http://rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/10032014

“When I became a political refugee in France I met him again,” she said in an interview with Rudaw. “I told him, ‘Here everybody is asking me if I am Muslim.’ And he answered me that the beauty of Kurdistan was in this: ‘Nobody asked anyone anything.’” 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-mansfield/religious-neutrality-iraqi-kurdistan_b_1587042.html

Quote: On June 11, 2012, the government of Iraqi Kurdistan gave an answer. The Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) -- which is responsible for the northern quarter of the country, an ethnically Kurdish region -- declared that its schools will now be religiously neutral. This means that they will teach the great religions of the world on an equal basis but will not press any one religion upon students or even make what is taught about these religions a part of the final examinations required for graduation. This is a profound change from the previous requirement that Islam be preferred in the classroom and that students master its doctrines as a requirement of graduation. It is an astonishingly broad-mined move by the government of a region that is 94 percent Muslim, that is bordered by nations like Iran and Syria, and in which an American teacher was shot and killed just weeks ago.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2014/0625/As-Iraq-burns-tolerance-and-tensions-in-Kurdish-Kirkuk-video

Quote: Back at the citadel, a sprightly old man tends to visitors at the tomb attributed to the prophet Daniel. It lies under a mosque that was originally a Jewish synagogue then a Christian church. In the eyes of Faruk Mohammed Saleh, the citadel is a shining example of tolerance in Kirkuk. 

http://belkib.com/minority-rights-in-kurdistan.html

[This seems to be an official web site of Kurdistan. The key word here is JEWS. Note that the region is calling for tolerance not only of Christians and other minorities but also of Jews, a people that is almost universally hated and demonized everywhere else in the Muslim world. Yet the US and its allies are allowing the Kurds to be decimated in Kobane. Something is terribly wrong. We are clearly siding with the intolerant Muslims while letting the tolerant ones die! Tell your Congressman about this. Tell him our policies must be reversed. Ask your candidates what they think is more  important: taking out Assad or supporting the Kurds. You can bet that none of these people have a clue. YOU must educate them. Don Hank]

Quote: The future of the Kurdistan Region is as a mosaic of many people, Kurds, Arabs, Chaldeans, Assyrians, Turkomen, liberals, conservatives, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Yezidis, and secular people. Our tent is large, and all are welcome.
The Kurdistan Region’s social and economic strength lies in its diversity, its civil society and its drive to adhere to the rule of law.   In its progress toward more secure rights for all, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has set as a top priority the need to enact measures and educational campaigns ensuring that women’s rights, children’s rights, political pluralism and religious freedom, as well as the care and protection of refugees and internally-displaced persons, continue to be strengthened and guaranteed. - See more at: http://belkib.com/minority-rights-in-kurdistan.html#sthash.XVhgDlJT.dpuf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Iraqi_Kurdistan

[This article was written from the standpoint of what can be called ‘Western liberalism,’ which is more a religion than an ideology. It is the ideology of the elites but not the people. The people of the West still believe that marriage is the union of a man and a woman. The fact that Kurds accept this traditional view is, in my opinion, one of the reasons why the West is allowing the Kurds to be killed in Kobane. Don Hank]

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Status of homosexuality

In 2010, it was reported that passing of a new law in Iraqi Kurdistan, guaranteeing “gender equality”, has deeply outraged the local religious community, including the minister of endowments and religious affairs and prominent imams, who interpreted the phrase as "legitimizing homosexuality in Kurdistan".^[12] Kamil Haji Ali, the minister of endowments and religious affairs, said in this regard that the new law would “spread immorality” and “distort” Kurdish society.^[12] Following an outrage of religious movements, the KRG held a press conference, where the public were ensured that gender equality did not include giving marriage rights to homosexuals, whose existence is effectively invisible in Iraq due to restrictive traditional rules.^[12] The Kurdistan government also said no marriages, other than those permitted by official religions in Kurdistan, were allowed by law.