how will the kurds be treated, should the US abandon iraq and leave the Shi’ites in power?
I had never thought of this before… a friend of mine, a kurd, pointed out that the us forces are the only thing keeping the arabs from slaughtering great numbers of kurdss. I do not know if this is true, but, seeing as how he spent the first 14 years of his life there, I am inclined to believe him. Is he right? have any kurds been appointed to the constitutional assembly?
The kurds are being killed as we speak by the Syrian socialist bathist regime. Do you hear the islamists and communists crying over it?
Why does everybody hate Kurd, the Turkish, the Iranians, Syrians and Iraqi Arabs? I can not understand, they are also Muslims and Salahuddin Ayubi was a Kurd. Can someone explain this hatred?
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*Originally posted by Imdad Ali: *
The kurds are being killed as we speak by the Syrian socialist bathist regime. Do you hear the islamists and communists crying over it?
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the baathists are not true socialists -- true socialists encourage equality... true socialists don't opress kurds and shi'ites, but rather would help them as minority groups.
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*Originally posted by Rasheed Ahmed: *
Why does everybody hate Kurd, the Turkish, the Iranians, Syrians and Iraqi Arabs? I can not understand, they are also Muslims and Salahuddin Ayubi was a Kurd. Can someone explain this hatred?
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I'm not completely informed on the issue, but a few friends of mine, who are kurdish, tell me that the situation in iraq, turker, and syria concerning the mistreatment of kurds stems from a conflict between the arabs and kurds and turks during the fall of the ottoman empite in 1921 -- that the kurds, instead of aiding the turks in preserving their nation, fought the turks in the east while the greeks did so in the west, thus an attribution of the problem with cyprus to the kurds, and that, though fighting against the turks, the kurds never helped the arabs establish an independent kingdom -- thus the arabs equate the kurds resistance to the turks with the british and french establishing their horrible mandats in the middle east.
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*Originally posted by DarkLiquor85: *
I'm not completely informed on the issue, but a few friends of mine, who are kurdish, tell me that the situation in iraq, turker, and syria concerning the mistreatment of kurds stems from a conflict between the arabs and kurds and turks during the fall of the ottoman empite in 1921 -- that the kurds, instead of aiding the turks in preserving their nation, fought the turks in the east while the greeks did so in the west, thus an attribution of the problem with cyprus to the kurds, and that, though fighting against the turks, the kurds never helped the arabs establish an independent kingdom -- thus the arabs equate the kurds resistance to the turks with the british and french establishing their horrible mandats in the middle east.
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thanks for the info .... but i strongly belive kurds do deserve a homeland
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*Originally posted by kabir: *
thanks for the info .... but i strongly belive kurds do deserve a homeland
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I completely agree. It would be a nice change if the UN did something right for once in their history, and established the northern fifth of Iraq as a Kurdish nation.
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*Originally posted by DarkLiquor85: *
the baathists are not true socialists -- true socialists encourage equality... true socialists don't opress kurds and shi'ites, but rather would help them as minority groups.
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Newsflash, there is no such thing as a true socialist. Socialism is a fantasy or dream, much like islamism.
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*Originally posted by Imdad Ali: *
Newsflash, there is no such thing as a true socialist. Socialism is a fantasy or dream, much like islamism.
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Websters: Socialism - a supporter of any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods;
I am a true socialist.
But taking the meaning further, implicating Marxist idealogy, I am less of a true socialist than someone like Sam Webb, CPUSA national chairperson. I realise that most of the world has come to the low-level stage of socialism in the "path to world communism." However, I do not believe the world will ever get the benefit of world-communism... it's too utopian. Socialism is more possible; consider Sweden - a great example of democratic socialism - employees have more control of their factories via strong unions, they are paid well, recieve free education, health care, and child care, paid vacations, etc.
But that is off the subject, my friend. message me to continue the discussion.