Londoner wrote:Anthea wrote:If my memory serves me right I believe that the main reason for Arab settlements within the Kurdish area were to form a barrier between the Kurds living in Syria and those in Turkey - also to prevent more Kurds from moving over the border from Turkey to live in Syria
The main reason many Kurds were stripped of Syrian citizenship was that they were seen as illegal immigrates - or descendants of illegal immigrates from Turkey
That was only a common sense excuse, the hidden agenda was to create a big rift between Kurds and Sunnie Arabs for their use benefit when time comes . yes, It was some thing between both sides of Kurds but didn't have any practical values. Syrian Baath, Alewites, used Arab Nationalism to disguise their real identity as a minority Alewites ruling the majority Arab Sunnies. Their elite was French-educated and predicted something to happen like now what happening in Syria. So today they are harvesting, getting Kurds support, what they planted on 1960.
Their harsh treatment against Kurds is a feud and hatred with historical roots. Kurds as Sunnies, have collaborated with Sunnie Arabs and Turks in the oppression of Shia in the region through the history. Egypt was a shia country but Sellahuddin, a Kurd, converted it to a Sunnie country by the force of sword. Hundreds of years ago, Shia scholars claiming Kurds are the descendants of ghosts. This must be because when Kurds attacking them, they didn't see them coming, they just appeared infront of them like ghosts from nowhere. A Shia scholar declared a warning to the people of Baghdad from the swords of Kurds on the old day. In order to help people of Baghdad to recognise Kurds, he described Kurd IDs as wearing colourful clothes and shoes made from goats or sheep hair. When you read it, you can not control yourself to lough
Excellent info. kaka Londoner, you know more about these subjects than most people I come across. I did not not some this above, and even to this detail. It's interesting how the Shia perceived us. I would like to add a little more:
- the Alwites rise to power was only possible because they took control the Syrian Ba'ath party, that started out as a Sunni Arab nationalistic party, like the Iraqi one.
- the Aliwites ( term started by the French, not to be confused with Alavis, they historically were called Nusayris) were an obscure, poor, and rural people who inhabited some of mountains of the E Med coast. According to many outsiders, they until recents times, still maintained many paganistic beliefs and practices, that's probably why they were not accepted by the mainstream Muslim communities. One of the practices that they adopted from the Shia was Taqiya, this helped them rise to power in the Sunni majority country. Assad and the regime worked hard to modernize and transform his people to who they are today. It was said that after they built many new mosques for them, they hardly ever used them.
- regarding Shia Islam and Kurds: Saladin was responsible for the fall of the Shia Fatimid Dynasty. I have noticed a concealed hatred of Saladin by the Shia, even Shia Kurds do not respect Saladin. This is something Shia Kurds should think about and for the greater cause and unity. Muslim Kurds should stay away from institutionalized imperialist religious groups , like Persian dominated Shia, Arab Wahhabis or brotherhood, and Turkish Gulenists, who are all against Kurdish nationalism freedom.
