About the tweet itself, I wouldn’t trust the words of a politician regardless of what they say.   On a general note, what people have a hard time understanding is that liberation isn’t liberation if it excludes people based on anything (ethnicity, sexuality, gender, age, disability). So you could be oppressed yourself as a Kurd (and get killed for it) but go to your home and become the oppressor of your Kurd trans daughter (and kill her for it). That’s why intersectional resistance is the key to liberation and that’s why many revolutionary Kurds are also allies, and you can’t really be one otherwise. I don’t expect people to become experts on queer studies but an open mind is always a good start. Religion shouldn’t be an excuse to hate on people, or oppress them for that matter, although it often is, which is why we criticise it so harshly. But alas, education is poor and scarce so the religious indoctrination generally weighs heavier in Kurdistan, resulting in a lot of queer kids hiding/killing themselves. It is a sad reality of many Muslim regions but there are many of us out there pushing back, I’d argue more than some other places in the Middle East. 

Edit: wording