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Saturday, May 22, 2004

Institutional Racism...Iraq...and Iraqis...

Kurdo' World (Kurdish nationalist in Iraq)
... the former Iraqi government had created "us" and "them".. Kurds were "them" and Iraqis were "us".. "them" was bad because allegedly, was working with the enemies of "us", Israel, USA, Iran and you name it. So "them" had no rights and was meant to be terminated...

...Al-Jazeera, Al-Arabia, etc. They were showing a video clip about Fallujah and Najaf...A civilian was talking on TV and he was saying "These Kurds are working with the US and they are attacking us... what do they want from us ?" Note the words us and them.. And this was being repeated 1000s to the Arab world.. Now if an ordinary Arab watches this, he will systematically starts hating Kurds...

...Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper, a newspaper published by a Saddam Hussein lover, Abdul Bari Atwan, he still calls Osama Bin Laden as "Sheikh" or "Sir". He usually puts a headline "Kurds did blah blah to Arabs"... "Kurds did that to Arabs" ...

All these examples have great impacts on Iraq...Just after publishing these reports, an Iraqi blogger, Raed, published this: "The decreasing possibility of having a Sunni-Shia war increases the possibility of starting an Arab-Kurd one."

He fell to the racism trap.

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...so shall Kurds accuse the whole Arab nation just because the planes which bombed us with chemical weapons were Arabs ?! Shall we generalise the whole Arab nation just because the soldiers who conducted the genocidal Anfal operations were Arabs ?! Shall we start a hatred campaign against Arabs just because we have suffered on the hands of a few Arabs ?!

The answer is no ! We should never generalise ! There are many good Arabs.. But unfortunately, only the bad ones are getting a chance to speak on media.. and these ones are infecting the minds of thousands !
Kurdo would prefer if Kurdistan became an independent state that was not part of Iraq. This leads him at time to exaggeration. But not, I think, in this case. I have read repeated stories quoting both Sunni and Shia activists damning the Kurds as anti-Iraqi agents. The Kurds are rational to be afraid of an Iraq that does not have constitutional protections for their rights. It is likely that, if the Kurds don't recieve such assurances, they will declare independence.
Posted by: Zayphar / 5/22/2004 11:32:00 PM
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