The YPG – talking about “Kurds” is a simplification that can even be misleading – arouse particular sympathy in certain circles of the Italian and international left, from Youth Social Centers to parliamentary forces. Everyone in recent days has spoken in favour of the Kurdish-Syrian cause an...
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Again, Italian public opinion, upon the release of hostages, always tends toward the vicious and nasty when a young woman is concerned and where the crimes committed against her take place in a country where Islam is the dominant or state religion, particularly if there are terrorist organisation...
have used humanitarian parole to admit people into the U.S. and help groups of people from all over the world. It's been used to admit people from Hungary in the 1950s, from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos during the latter half of the 1970s, and Iraqi Kur...
Especially given the Ganges is holy in the Hindu religion. You literally can’t say that the Ganges is polluted — instead you have to say that Mother Ganges is “neglected” or “mistreated” or “disrespected.” Mess with the Ganges and expect to have millions of very pissed-off and ver...
The Jews of Kurdistan largely spoke Aramaic and Kurdish dialects, in particular the Kurmanji dialect in Iraqi Kurdistan (and are probably doing their part in Mossad and/or Shin Bet, and Israeli military intelligence among the Kurds as well, because many still speak Kurdish and Aramaic). ...
ignite those problems faced by his father whose stifling of dissent spurred Islamist insurgency. In June 2004, Ghalioun, who remains an active observer of the Syrian opposition from his exile in Paris, wrote, "Lack of reform is driving the renaissance of religion in an era of secularism."[21...
(92.1%). The Alawites of which Assad is a member, of course, are a religious sect related to Shia Islam. Whereas the Sunnis represented 75 percent of Syria’s Muslims. Why the Syrian government stopped including religion in the 1960 census and thereafter raises the question as to whether ...
Worse, from an American perspective, there are pro-Saddam slogans too. What if the Iraqis don't want to be "liberated" by an occupying foreign power? There is also the precedent of 1991, after the Gulf War, when the Shia Muslims of southern Iraq, and the Kurds in the north, revolt...