Who the hell are you?
Kurdishaspect.com - By Kay Azadabeen
According to a humorist, one of our relatively respectable senators had been portrayed to be confused about the Iraqis while needing a nap. Although tired, he was awake enough not to confuse Shiites and Sunnis with the Kurds. A main advantage for the Kurds during the Iraq war has been to be known as they are, non-sectarian, religiously neutral, and ethnically distinct.
The uninformed senator responded to the question if the Kurds confuse him the way Shiite and Sunnis do. He simply responded "who the hell are the Kurds?" For a few minutes I was disappointed in his statement and than realized he is not to blame but the Kurds themselves. I think he deserves to hear from the Kurds who the hell they are.
Many Kurds have been in hell for too long. The senator might have intended to ask the Kurds of which hell, instead of who the hell are the Kurds. As an experienced politician he must know there are two Arab hells, a Turkish ,and Persian one for the Kurds. In these hells many Kurds have been prisoners of war, a traumatic experience that the senator is familiar with.
In the Iraqi hell over 180000 Kurds were killed by the Ba'ath regime. In the Syrian hell many Kurds still have no citizenship and are treated brutally by one of the member states of the so called "axis of evil". In the Persian hell, a main center of the so called "religious fascism", many Kurds have been bombed, hanged, and assassinated. In the Turkish hell, the Kurds have gone through similar cultural and ethnic genocide as Armenians went through. Despite denial of their rights to be equal with their neighbors, the majority of the Kurds have lived in peace with their Turkish, Arab, and Persian neighbors. However, a minority of them have responded to force with force, something that the senator must be familiar with.
In all of the four hellish states the determined Kurds, who do not accept anything less than self determination and the freedom of learning their own language at public schools, have been labeled as separatist by the states that have separated and divided them between themselves. The leaders of these hells treat the Kurds the way Russian leaders treated other nations before the collapse of the Soviet empire, or the way the British Kings treated their colonies in America before 1776, something that the senator must be familiar with.
Despite their betrayal by some American corporations many Kurds still trust the American people as they share their dreams. They have recognized that without the approval of the liberated Americans, the captive nations of the world have a much harder time to be liberated in this era. They are watching American leaders carefully and support those who support them, whether it is a traumatized, experienced, and forceful prisoner of war, a caring mother, spouse, and free woman, or an energetic, intelligent, and progressive black man. If any of them don't take the Kurdish dream for liberty and justice seriously, the Kurds would respond to them who the hell are you.
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