Saddam's Muslim supporters. Ismail Kamandar, Kurdish Observer, September 13, 02

The Speech of George Bush before the General Assembly September 12, which was mainly dedicated to the behavior of the Iraqi regime and the crimes it has commited in the past and is still commiting, gives a clear picture of America going after Saddam Hussein.

In response to this, the moderate King Abdullah warns President Bush not to remove the dictator Saddam Hussein, because it will open a pandora's box. "His Majesty is dead right. If Saddam was replaced by a federated democracy, then these Arab kings, Emirs, and corrupt undemocratic goverments, together with there state controlled media will be thrown into the ashes of history.

The fact that the Arabs are now more vociferous in there opposition to Bush's plan to attack Iraq, is because they want Saddam Hussein to remain in power. There are happy with dictators because they themselves are dictators like Saddam. They are afraid that any regime change which is sponsored by the U.S and Britain, will inevitably lead to a stable Iraqi democratic regime, exactly as America did with Japan after WW2. The Arab rulers do not want this to happen, especially the billionaire Sheikh rulers. Given the autocratic, dictatorial and often fascist and anti democratic nature all of Arab regimes, that are afraid of the domino effect, which will be triggered by the democratic regime change in Iraq.

Astonishingly almost all Arab media - from TV to press to websites - are variously owned by Arab dictators, desports, medieval Kings/ Sheikhs or corrupt undemocratic goverments. They feed there populations with half truths and upsurd conspiracy theories, like the Jews were behind the World Trade Center bombing on Sep 11th, or the Jews were behind the Egyptian plane crash in Oct 1999

How often have we heard Arafat and other Arab leaders complain, that the few million Palestinians are the only nation without a country, blithely ignoring the 30 million Kurds who've been for the last century wanting there own homeland. The Palestinians were offered a state by Barak with Jerusalem as there Capital. Barak offered the Palestinians a state, something no Arab country ever did. Arafat responds to this offer, by starting a terrorist war against civilians. Since the war Arafat started in September 2000, 2000 Palestinians have been killed and 650 Israelis killed. But in Halabja Kurdistan, 5000 Kurds were gassed to death within 5 minutes - A Shocking crime by Iraq.

In Saddam's Anfal mass killing against the Kurds, 5000 villages were destroyed and 200,000 Kurdish civilians were murdered. The Whole Kurdish area was turned into shrines of mass graves, which stands as a witness to one the most horrific acts in human history. What was the Arab and Islamic world's reaction to this? Silence! Not a word of protest! These same hypocrits who whine about the Palestinians, were no where to be found, when Saddam gassed the Kurds.

The present American leadership and Saddam Hussein are in agreement over two things. They are both against a Kurdish state and both favor a Palestinian state.
If George Orwell were alive, I supposed he would have told the Hapless Kurds, "The Palestinians are more equal then you. So what is the trick? How could we Kurds become more equal like the Palestinians Should we start blowing up pizzeria's, disco's, school buses and Passover observations to gain world attention. Thank God, the Kurds haven't taken this route. And personally, I pray they never chose the route of deliberately killing civilians. The Palestinians could have a state tommorow if they stop killing Israeli civilians. When did Iraq, Turkey or Iran ever offer the Kurds a state? Never.

Most people know about the Kurdish oppression in Turkey and Iraq, but people dont know about the Kurds in Syria.
Over 2 million Kurds have lived for centuries in Syria. The Kurds of Syria compose 8 to 14 percent of Syria's population. The Kurds of Syria are subjected to horrible oppression by the Assad regime. The Kurds are not allowed to be citizens and there barred from traveling outside of Syria. In a 1996 report, Human Rights Watch said that Syria had a policy in Northwestern Syria, to identify people who were not Arabs. The group is divided into 175,000 people, classified as "foreigners" and 75,000 termed maktoumeen, meaning "unregistered." The former are issued red identity documents, which prevent them from owning land, practicing certain professions, receiving food subsidies, being admitted to public hospitals, or having legally recognized marriages to Syrian citizens. The latter are issued no documents at all. Maktoumeen are the children (grandchildren, etc.) of "foreigners," including foreigners who marry women who are Syrian citizens. Their ethnic identity is denied and there has been an ongoing Arabization campaign of Kurdish areas within Syria, in which Kurdish families are expelled from there land and Arab families are given this land. If your saying this sounds like Aparthied, your right" Yet where is the Islamic world's outrage over this! It is tragic that the people of the world have not been more aware of the situation in all portions of Kurdistan, and of the ordeal suffered by the Kurdish people, as well as the steps of progress for Kurdish culture taken in spite of all this oppression.