Old argu­ment about Kur­dis­tan sep­a­ra­tion and Shi­ite cres­cent raised again by Kur­dish writer Sami Shourash try­ing to explain Barzani’s sep­a­ra­tion threat. The evi­dence I found tells a dif­fer­ent story.

Shourash wrote the fol­low­ing on Jor­dan­ian Al-Ghad:

Some believe that the Iraqi Shi­ites want to push the Kurds to sep­a­rate from Iraq to reduce the Sunni Arabs minor­ity in to 13% allow­ing the Shi­ites total con­trol on Iraq, its eco­nomic and diplo­matic affairs.

This will trans­form Iraq into the sec­ond largest Shi­ite state in the world, and will pave the way for the real­iza­tion of the Shi­ite crescent.

I don’t see this, the most pop­u­lar Shi­ite news­pa­per “AlBayna AlJa­dida” [no link allowed, short report on Akhbar-Alkhaleej] says that an agree­ment made among Shi­ites media to not to use the term “Kur­dis­tan” any more. Instead the media will use “North­ern Iraq” or Kur­dish Areas” because the pre­vi­ous term estab­lishes “sep­a­ra­tion” and “divi­sion” [notice that the news­pa­per counted three provinces Irbil, Sulaimaiya and Dihok no more]:

The edi­tors [of the news­pa­per] decided to use “North­ern Iraq” instead of the term “Kur­dis­tan”. The Kur­dis­tan means for us to divide Iraq into a mini-states and we strongly reject this.

The word Kur­dis­tan also is an Israeli word, as admit­ted by the Israeli news­pa­per Maariv, hop­ing that the Kur­dish under­stand the motives behind this decision.

5 Comments

  1. The Arab-minset, Kur­dis­tan, Kur­dis­tan, Kur­dis­tan, there will always be a Kur­dis­tan. We never give up, we never turn our back.

    If Iraq tries to restrain Kurds, it will a major back­lash to for the so called Iraq. Then maybe the North, East and South Kur­dis­tan strug­gle will become one strug­gle finally.

    Sad­dam couldn’t stop the Kurds, he could really make those Shi­ites feel fear.

  2. @ Welat: What makes you think that USrael is a friend of Kurds? From your com­ments it seems that you do not have any idea what those “friends” are plot­ting against the Kurds at this very moment..

    Google for WWII, Ukraine, Nazi, Occu­pa­tion, etc. to see who’s the one that’s plot­ting against the Kurds instead of Arabs, Sun­nis or Shi’ites…

    NDHF Net
    http://newsdeskhelsinkifinland.net

  3. @ Welat: Help­ing you to get started, here’s another way to grasp the true mean­ing of the Israeli word “Kur­dis­tan”, the head­line pro­vid­ing a syn­onym “Palestinians”:

    Israeli rab­bis to Olmert:It doesn’t mat­ter even if you kill mil­lion Pales­tini­ans
    http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7LDLtEeilQenGttPsi%2fAmsuqwt2Q0Qb7NDjvF1ijs0Mke%2fdLN13qCGdHotgRtSkRvR%2fbV%2bPv7vZZIr4cKeRTWwNH50F%2fa57OeOsWMM3df%2fk8%3d

    NDHF Net
    http://newsdeskhelsinkifinland.net

  4. I really couldn’t care less if all of Pales­tine or Israel would turn to dust. We Kurds know that we don’t have friends. But I would love to befriend some­one that dose not deny my iden­tity or would want me ill.

  5. We def­i­nitely not want you or the Kurds any ill, nei­ther do we have any­thing against the Sun­nis, Shi’ites, Turk­men, Chris­tians or any other Iraqis: the point is that by pup­pet­ing the “sec­tar­ian con­flict” the USrael very much does so — and they’re not fin­ished with that…

    Apolo­gies if hav­ing given such an impres­sion and thank you for let­ting LB to work.

    NDHF Net (Mr Jouna Pyysalo)
    http://newsdeskhelsinkifinland.net

Iraqi media decided to use “Kurdish Areas” instead of “Kurdistan”

This article was written January 17th, 2009, with the mathematical number of 5 contributions.