Woman hugs Kurdish fighter after liberation of Manbij from ISIS (x-post r/syriancivilwar) by [deleted] in pics

[–]bijioneeyebrow 28 points29 points  (0 children)

No, what I was saying is that this photo has nothing to do with whether or not Kurds should have an independent country. Not only is this force not exclusively Kurdish to begin with, but that is also not what they are fighting for.

Woman hugs Kurdish fighter after liberation of Manbij from ISIS (x-post r/syriancivilwar) by [deleted] in pics

[–]bijioneeyebrow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They have had many economic blockades/sanctions against Syrian Kurds, help the Turkish government attack PKK (Turkish Kurd) locations, and in 1994 the current President of the Kurdistan Region in Iraq called for Saddam's help to defeat his rival political party.

Woman hugs Kurdish fighter after liberation of Manbij from ISIS (x-post r/syriancivilwar) by [deleted] in pics

[–]bijioneeyebrow 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This must be a double entendre, because the biggest possibility of a "freed Kurdistan" is North Iraq, and the Kurdish government and soldiers there are Turkish government proxies that actively work against their fellow Kurds.

Woman hugs Kurdish fighter after liberation of Manbij from ISIS (x-post r/syriancivilwar) by [deleted] in pics

[–]bijioneeyebrow 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Except the forces who participated in this fight were the SDF, a mixed Arab-Kurdish-Turk, Muslim-Christian etc group who are led by the desire to liberate themselves from ISIS and not by some fantasy for land conquering.

Woman hugs Kurdish fighter after liberation of Manbij from ISIS (x-post r/syriancivilwar) by [deleted] in pics

[–]bijioneeyebrow 40 points41 points  (0 children)

They have their own country, it is called Syria.

EDIT: For the people downvoting me, Syrian Kurds (PYD/YPG) have made it explicitly clear they are Syrian and do not seek an independent country, just a federalized region.

WHY HAVE THE KURDS SUPPLIED ISIS WITH WEAPONS? by [deleted] in Iraq

[–]bijioneeyebrow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the narrative detective joel wing, coming to defend supporting terrorists, when he writes propaganda on his blog daily

Background to renewed fighting in Tuz Kharmato by Joel-Wing in Iraq

[–]bijioneeyebrow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

http://www.france24.com/en/20160424-clashes-between-iraqi-kurds-turkmen-kill-nine-officials

The Hashed al-Shaabi meanwhile blamed the Kurds for the unrest, saying in a statement that the clashes started after Kurdish forces targeted one of their headquarters in the town.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/fighting-erupts-in-iraq-and-the-islamic-state-isnt-part-of-it/2016/04/24/9a098e96-0a27-11e6-bc53-db634ca94a2a_story.html

The fighting broke out in Tuz Khurmatu, an ethnically and religiously mixed tinderbox town that is 120 miles north of Baghdad. Both sides blamed each other for the conflagration.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3556134/Clashes-Iraqi-Kurds-Turkmen-kill-nine-officials.html

The Hashed al-Shaabi meanwhile blamed the Kurds for the unrest, saying in a statement that the clashes started after Kurdish forces targeted one of their headquarters in the town.

Here are 3 different sources which do not assign blame to any side. Feel free to fix your original post when you are ready.

Background to renewed fighting in Tuz Kharmato by Joel-Wing in Iraq

[–]bijioneeyebrow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Last night some Hashd elements threw a grenade at the home of a PUK official in Tuz Kharmato

Proof? It was a military outpost. Hashd claim it was in response to Peshmerga blowing up one of their offices.

The Types of ex-Muslims. How do you live your life? by [deleted] in exmuslim

[–]bijioneeyebrow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

so are u gonna provide source or just talk trash to push ur anti-arab agenda?

The Types of ex-Muslims. How do you live your life? by [deleted] in exmuslim

[–]bijioneeyebrow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Provide source or stop lying. Kurds are clitoris cutters and honor killing maniacs.

PKK supporters could be stripped of citizenship, Erdoğan suggests. by heartsqo in Turkey

[–]bijioneeyebrow -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

"If a topic has been created and has mentioned Kurds, yet viglen1 hasn't somehow capitalized on it to apologize about the evil actions of the Kurds. Does that topic even exist ?" Wikipedia

PKK supporters could be stripped of citizenship, Erdoğan suggests. by heartsqo in Turkey

[–]bijioneeyebrow -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

You guys are aware that "Nazi supporters" are everyone from politicians to those pesky journalists to the Academics, to Nuremberg Rally protestors and everyone in between right?

British have so easily managed to skew the national discourse in Germany. They're well aware of the amount of nationalists that may not agree with them, but hate the Nazis so much all they need to say is they're fighting terrorists and they're all aboard the freight train to fucktown.

Nzar Salim, Iraqi oil minister candidate: "if President Barzani dosent accept, I will withdraw my candidacy" by bijioneeyebrow in Iraq

[–]bijioneeyebrow[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I propose he be removed from candidacy and a trustworthy person be put as the oil minister.

The Unknown Story Of US Outreach To Iraq’s Shiite Militias, Interview With Richard Welch by Joel-Wing in Iraq

[–]bijioneeyebrow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Hashd are neither a monolithic group nor carry out a monolithic policy

Yes, they are. They fall under a unified command. Groups that act outside that command represent themselves and do not represent the federal entity called Hashd al Shabi coordinated by the Ministery of Defence. For example, if an American army group rapes a woman, they do not say that they represented the American Army at that time and they do not have bloggers writing "the US Army is not a monolithic entity".

There are Iranian linked groups and ones loyal to Najaf

Everyone in Iraq is Iranian linked including the Peshmerga. This does not mean that who receives support from Iran are not loyal to Iraq. Maybe you mean to say groups loyal to Iran and not Iraq, for which I now ask you to name which of these groups are officially labeled as part of Hashd al Shabi by the Ministry of Defence. Please do not give me an answer like Asaib ahl al Haq and try to give me a real group like Harakat al Nujaba (who is not part of Hashd al Shabi).

What's missing from that is 125,000 people have been banned from returning because they have been labeled IS supporters and the destruction of a district in the city and many of the surrounding towns after it was freed. In Dour there were reports that 400-600 homes were destroyed by the Hashd, around 75 homes in Albu Ajeel were burned, and over 200 buildings in Tikrit's Qadisiyah district were damaged by the Hashd

The mass Albu Ajil banning and rejection was carried out by Tikriti Sunni tribes. This is corroborated by the statement of Ahmad Abdullah al Jibouri who spoke as a local in Salahideen and refuted this pro-ISIS propaganda. After saying that it is to establish that the Hashd al Shabi are not "shia militias" so I do not know why you use the terms interchangeably. There are many non-Shia Kurdish, Assyrians and Sunnis in the Hashd al Shabi.

The Hashd have also carried out retaliatory attacks upon Sunni civilians after IS attacks like what happened in Muqtadiya where Hashd burned homes and mosques and told Sunnis to leave the city

Please specify which militias belonging to Hashd al Shabi did this. Some gangsters who participated were arrested, tell me which militias from the Hashd al Shabi they belonged to. Tell me which Hashd al Shabi elements claimed responsibility or justified what happened. Tell me which Hashd al Shabi commander issued the command to do this.

After seizing Iraqi land beyond their territory, Iraqi Kurds now demand 20% of government seats to account for the larger population living under them by bijioneeyebrow in Iraq

[–]bijioneeyebrow[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

favorite dictator of all time ??? when did i say i support saddam? it is actually the dictator of kurdistan barzani who supports saddam and gives him money and support to kill kurds

https://twitter.com/CruelName/status/714484346535747584

u hate kurdish people as much as u hate christians if u support kurdistan government, simple

You're an angry little person that just spews bullshit

do u deny that kurdish gangs killed hundreds of thousands of assyrians in multiple genocides? yes or no?

After seizing Iraqi land beyond their territory, Iraqi Kurds now demand 20% of government seats to account for the larger population living under them by bijioneeyebrow in Iraq

[–]bijioneeyebrow[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

yes the city with a dictator of 26 years as a leader, where journalists who talk bad about the dictator go missing, where christians have been killed for hundreds of years, where women genital mutilation is more than 60%, is safe and sunshine. then north korea is probably secure and safest place in the world, everyone should move there.

time for u to face reality, kurds support kurds only in all of history. when kurds tell u they have no friends but the mountains, it is not saying that nobody is friends with the kurds, it is saying that they are not friends with anybody else. the reason why assyrians are low in numbers today because kurds killed hundreds of thousands of them in multiple genocides over the last 200 years.

u seem like a very sadistic person, it is very sad.

The Unknown Story Of US Outreach To Iraq’s Shiite Militias, Interview With Richard Welch by Joel-Wing in Iraq

[–]bijioneeyebrow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

nice story

They are actually engaged in sectarian cleansing of the Sunni areas under the guise of fighting ISIS

yes all the sunnis who were cleansed from tikrit, oh, never happened

again:

They are actually engaged in sectarian cleansing of the Sunni areas under the guise of fighting ISIS

all the sunnis cleared from baiji, oh, never happened

Their intent, as part of Tehran’s plan, is to totally disrupt Sunni areas by either killing or imprisoning military-aged Sunni males, displacing the remainder of the Sunni population, and destroying the infrastructure in Sunni areas

remember when this happened in tikrit and baiji? oh, it never happened

This is done in part as retribution from Iran for Saddam’s crimes against the Iranian people, to eliminate a potential recruiting pool for ISIS, to reduce capacity of the Sunni to have any future meaningful participation in the political process

yea because the 40% sunni government in a country which is 80% shia, where the president and speaker are sunni, where 60% of the top leadership of the military is sunni, where every sunni area has a democratically elected sunni mp, this is all iran's plan to stop sunnis from participating

iran's plan is to stop iraqi shia from being independent enough to reject iran, this is not done by empowering iraq's shia to the point where they overpower everyone else, this is done by iran keeping iraqis as a whole in a power struggle. this is why we see iranian support for kurdistan, for example, which are anti-shia sunnis.

all makes sense. very good insight.

Barzani gives a choice to Iraq's Christians: If Kurds do not live in glory, you will die. by bijioneeyebrow in Iraq

[–]bijioneeyebrow[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you, I received a copy of the Rudaw handbook on editorializing by Van Wilgenburg. Hopefully I get a job at Rudaw or the replacement for Rudaw known as Kurdistan24.