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Good Job to the Kurdish Peoples for These Protests.
Down With Denmark!





Kurdistani are muslims, yezidis, christians, atheist, whatever they want and islamists should admit that : a non-muslim will never want to be ruled by sharia. Only a secular constitution could strenghen the unity of Kurdistanis.

Piling wrote:Kurdistani are muslims, yezidis, christians, atheist, whatever they want and islamists should admit that : a non-muslim will never want to be ruled by sharia. Only a secular constitution could strenghen the unity of Kurdistanis.



Piling wrote:Because you know only Northern Kurds ! It depends on poverty and lack of education, and Northern Kurdistan is underdevelopped. In Western Kurdistan for example, Kurds are not at all conservative muslims, and concerning the diaspora, it is the same thing : lower classes are conservative islamists or PKK, but middle class reach the same more or less indifference concerning religion than Europeans.
Change the social and economical life of people, and you see quickly a change in ideas.
Moreover I never saw an aggressive and conservative islam in KUrdish areas, more in places like Sivas. Perhaps Sirnak is bad too, but elsewhere in Kurdistan you can find a place to drink quietly a beer or wine in restaurants ! (a good test, alcohol, for islamic mentality). Just Mardin is a hypocrit city : they sell alcohol in a discret and hidden way and people drink at home... But Mardin is more an arab city, Kurds are only in shantytowns arround...

As far as I know, Kurds are one of the most conservativelu muslim people on earth.
The biggest protests were organized by kurds while turks usually ignored the cartoons.

don't know. Arabs are like 20% of the Muslims around the world. You should have to study the rest of the Muslims to come to a conclusion.
Yes they are Muslim. I am also a Muslim, but I will guarantee you, I won't live in a Kurdistan ruled by morons who are going to tell me what I have to do as a GOOD Muslim.

The biggest protests were organized by kurds while turks usually ignored the cartoons.

Bullshit. What about the demonstration in Konya where a woman journalist was stoned? Same in Istanbul! Sorry but Saadet is a turk party, not kurd.
And what are you talking about "headscarve is forbidden in the street"?? Have you ever lived in TUrkey???????????????????? It is not forbidden, only in schools and university, and in administrations for civil servants.
Kurdistan society is not that conservative honestly, maybe more in north than in south though...I remember getting drunk with some kurds for my first night in Duhok: great diner: Arak, Beer, Wine, cool music..very conservative indeed!




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