Re: Iraq's second largest city, Mosul, captured by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria

Chemical attacks on Kurdish cities were surely a great way of uniting Iraq.

Saddam Hussain was a pan-Arab nationalist. He wanted to forcibly assimilate the minority ethnic groups, which the Kurds despised. Feels bad for them. Their language is banned almost everywhere.... Turkey, Syria, Iran.etc.

Trust me, it's not only the language that is banned in those countries, dare to say you're a Kurd and you will see what will happen to you. Arabs look down on us but they sure as hell do enjoy going to Kurdistan for their holidays

I didn't even know there would be any Kurds hanging about on this forum of all places! I watched a pretty lengthy independent documentary about you guys and how you even had a women sniper team in your armed forces, is it true you guys don't discriminate as much against people of different faiths? It's hard to get accurate information over here in the west about Iraq and the documentary was mainly just the journalist talking to the Kurds themselves but these were mostly military people.

I go back once every 2 years in the summer and I have seen muslims and christians living together in peace. Just like how we have mosques, I've seen churches there. There's a city nearby Erbil and it's called Ankawa and me and my cousins would always go there, I really like it. I've seen muslims and christians who are best friends. And yeah for our armed forces, I feel huge pride. I was raised in Holland and I would grow up to the stories of my dad when he was a Peshmerga and why I should always have respect for them and now that I am at a certain age and seeing how our Peshmerga are reacting to this situation, I am finally understanding what my dad was talking about.