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Kurdish women protest after being told to wear the hijab
Turkish-backed jihadi militiamen, who seized the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in northern Syria earlier this year, have put up posters carrying instructions about obedience to sharia law beside the outline of a woman wearing a full niqab – a black garment shrouding the body and face.
The posters sparked angry street protests by Kurds, who are mostly Muslim but have a secular tradition and have remained in Afrin since the invasion by the Turkish army and Syrian militiamen, often members of jihadi groups, of which Isis and al-Qaeda are more extreme examples.
The posters were taken down after a few days by Turkish military police, but are only the latest sign of pressure on Kurdish women by the jihadis to accept second-class status and to wear the hijab (headscarf) or the niqab.
Gulistan, 46, a teacher from Afrin, told The Independent that the aim of what she described as “the wearing-the-hijab campaign” is to force women to stay in their homes and not to take part in public life as Kurdish women have traditionally been able to do.
“Just because I wear jeans, I always hear words such as ‘whore, disbeliever, dogs of Assad and the Shia’ from strangers in the street,” she says.
“A group of women held protest vigils to demand the removal of the posters,” she adds, explaining that the wearing of the niqab is a social rather than a religious custom and not one that is part of Kurdish tradition.
The demand that Kurdish women, who are mostly Sunni Muslims, wear the hijab or niqab comes from Arab militiamen and from settlers with similar fundamentalist Islamic beliefs who have been forced out of eastern Ghouta by a Syrian government offensive.
Reported to number 35,000, they have taken over Kurdish-owned houses and land abandoned by some 150,000 Kurds who fled the Turkish invasion that began on 20 January and ended with the capture of Afrin city on 18 March.
The United Nations says an estimated 143,000 Kurds remain in the enclave.
Bave Misto, 65, a farmer from the town of Bulbul, north of Afrin city, confirms that Kurds are under pressure to abandon secular practices.
His family is one of less than 100 Kurdish families ho remain in Bulbul, compared to 600 before the invasion.
He says only older people are being allowed to return to their homes and that Arab militiamen, who say they belong to the Free Syrian Army, are barring young men and women from doing so.
Mr Misto says the militiamen are calling on the Kurdish inhabitants of Bulbul to attend mosque, and Arab families displaced from Damascus and Idlib are praying there to five times a day and are “asking our women to put on the hijab”.
He was told by one of his new neighbours, Abu Mohammad from eastern Ghouta, to get his wife to wear the hijab, saying: “It is better for this life and the afterlife.”
Many Kurds in Afrin suspect that the enforcement of fundamentalist Islamic social norms on secular Kurds is intended to encourage the ethnic cleansing of Kurds from Afrin.
During the invasion, several Arab militia units filmed themselves chanting sectarian anti-Kurdish slogans commonly used by Isis and al-Qaeda.
Kurds in Afrin face extreme difficulties in making a living.
Mr Misto owns a small field on the outskirts of Bulbul, in which there are olive and cherry trees, but when he tried to enter it he was told by Arab militiamen that it was full of mines planted by the PKK (the Turkish Kurd organisation, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party), though he was sceptical of this because the militiamen were grazing cattle there.
Mr Misto was able to recover his house from an Arab family who had taken it over with the help of local police, headed by a Turk.
This may be an indication of divisions between different parts of the Free Syrian Army, which is an umbrella organisation, about how to treat the Kurds and whether or not to confiscate their property.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reports that Ahrar al-Sham, a jihadi movement closely allied to Turkey, has evicted at gunpoint seven families of displaced people from eastern Ghouta, who had been living in houses in Afrin, because they insisted on paying rent to the Kurdish owners.
The displaced people from Ghouta, who were brought in convoys to Afrin, said that they themselves had been dispossessed of their homes by the Syrian government, but did not think it right to take the homes of others.
SOHR says that Ahrar al-Sham has threatened to imprison the evacuees from eastern Ghouta if they return to the houses they had rented, on the charge of “dealing with Kurdish forces”.
Although there is sporadic guerrilla warfare waged by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units in Afrin, it is unlikely that the demographic changes that followed the Turkish invasion will be reversed.
Gulistan says that life for Kurds who have stayed in the enclave is chronically insecure because they are at the mercy of groups such as Ahrar al-Sham.
She says that her uncle owns a grocery store but this is heavily taxed by the militias, who often take goods without paying for them.
When he appealed to the police, the militiamen then mistreated him even more.
She says one of her neighbours was kidnapped three weeks ago and his wife and brother received a demand for $50,000 in ransom for his release.
SOHR confirms that there is widespread looting and fighting between militia factions, and that one Kurdish official has been tortured to death.
https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/kurdish-women-protest-after-being-told-to-wear-the-hijab/
The Kurds are devils on this Earth and an illness to this Ummah and a woe and a curse unto the people the Mashriq, it is so sad that these people can claim Salahuddin, Nour ad-Din az-Zengi, and others as their own when today their people are the most humiliated adhering to the destructive and toxic sacrilegious ideologies of Communism, Atheism, and Feminism. The Kurds would sellout their own mothers for the sake of their made up country, and today if you think Israel, the Jewish State is bad it will be nothing compared to the wave that will come with the Kurdish state built upon the framework of the Servant of Satan Ocalan and his perverted racist Communist ideology that has no room for Islam or non-Kurds and only tolerates a society dominated by Kurdish atheists. The PKK has collaborated with Assad in his brutal crimes in murdering Arab Ahlus-Sunnah because the enmity of the Safawis and Kurds towards Arabs is undeniable and blatant. To them it wouldn't matter if Hitler himself conducted the holocaust on Arabs instead of Jews if he promised them their imaginary pseudo-state. This was witnessed in Aleppo when they fought side by side the Nusaryi army and Russia against the Muslims, this was witnessed in Raqqa when they displaced hundreds of thousands of Arabs to repopulate the region with Kurds no different than Israeli settlers, perhaps even worse.
It is a true reflection of their culture how foreign Islam is to the overwhelming majority of the Kurds and it is an even truer reflection of an individual's deen when something as simple and pure as Hijab is a subject of controversy and negativity when so many Muslims in places like Europe suffer and sacrifice to wear such a garment. An environment is what forges the individual and it is clear from the Kurdish environment they were raised in Islam meant nothing and Kurdistan meant everything. To the Kurds, their homeland has exceeded from simple pride to taking place of an idol and this is Shirk.
This Ummah is so divided and yet the only thing they can think of is dividing it further and alienating their Arab brothers who have for decades endured what they have, shared their history, shared their religion and lived among one another without differences. Yet they have not learned the mistake of their ways from over throwing Saddam Hussein in Iraq, to assisting in the Safawi genocide of Sunnis in Iraq and today find themselves pitted against the Safawis they so arrogantly and stupidly stood by who seized Kirkuk from them because the Safawis are so hateful to Ahlus Sunnah, the Kurds are yet to realize their stupidity, arrogance and selfishness and they don't realize the fact they are nothing more than whores for other parties interests and that they contributed to a genocide of Muslim Arabs and now the Safawis and Nusayris are turning their guns on them in Iraq and Syria from Kirkuk to Dier az Zor, and why they may ask, it's because these idiots are yet to realize that the Rafida have nothing but hatred for Muslims regardless of their race they also don't realize the cleverness of the Persians and the fact that when they (the Kurds) are no longer useful they will be slaughtered just like the Arabs they spent so many years fighting, murdering, betraying, and collaborating against and when its no longer profitable there will be no more Western support for them, and the Muslims will be gone and no where to protect them when the Shia hordes of death squads come to swarm them and present them with their own versions East Ghouta and Mosul.
Allah (Ta'Ala) has said;
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مَن يَرْتَدَّ مِنكُمْ عَن دِينِهِ فَسَوْفَ يَأْتِي اللَّهُ بِقَوْمٍ يُحِبُّهُمْ وَيُحِبُّونَهُ أَذِلَّةٍ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَعِزَّةٍ عَلَى الْكَافِرِينَ يُجَاهِدُونَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَلَا
يَخَافُونَ لَوْمَةَ لَائِمٍ ذَٰلِكَ فَضْلُ اللَّهِ يُؤْتِيهِ مَن يَشَاءُ وَاللَّهُ وَاسِعٌ عَلِيمٌ
O you who believe! Whoever turns back among you from his religion, then soon Allah (will) bring a people whom He loves and they love Him, humble towards the believers (and) stern towards the disbelievers; striving in (the) way (of) Allah and not fearing the blame (of) a critic. That (is the) Grace (of) Allah, He grants whom He wills. And Allah (is) All-Encompassing, All-Knowing.
He (Ta'Ala) also says;
هَٰٓأَنتُمْ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ تُدْعَوْنَ لِتُنفِقُوا۟ فِى سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ فَمِنكُم مَّن يَبْخَلُ ۖ وَمَن يَبْخَلْ فَإِنَّمَا يَبْخَلُ عَن نَّفْسِهِۦ ۚ وَٱللَّهُ ٱلْغَنِىُّ وَأَنتُمُ ٱلْفُقَرَآءُ ۚ وَإِن تَتَوَلَّوْا۟ يَسْتَبْدِلْ قَوْمًا غَيْرَكُمْ ثُمَّ لَا يَكُونُوٓا۟ أَمْثَٰلَكُم
Behold, ye are those invited to spend (of your substance) in the Way of Allah. But among you are some that are niggardly. But any who are niggardly are so at the expense of their own souls. But Allah is free of all wants, and it is ye that are needy. If ye turn back (from the Path), He will substitute in your stead another people; then they would not be like you!
If they are yet to learn the lessons of the people of Nuh (AS) whom he erased or the lesson Allah (AWJ) taught Shaytan then it is that Allah will give them the same treatment for Allah is truthful and the promise of Allah is stronger and more truer than any promise a human will ever make.
And Allah has shown the Safawis and Kurds that he is all seeing and all knowing of their crimes and actions, the quake erupted in the region of Kurdistan though a humiliating people they do not curse and slander the Sahaba or purposefully harm Ahlus Sunnah, while a majority of the deaths where in Iran the homeland of the Safawis where they commit the worst of crimes against Ahlus Sunnah and slander and abuse the Sahaba, and destroy our religion, is this not a sign from Allah?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Iran–Iraq_earthquake
And Allah says:
“And We sent not the signs except to warn” [al-Israa’ 17:59]
“We will show them Our Signs in the universe, and in their own selves, until it becomes manifest to them that this (the Qur’aan) is the truth. Is it not sufficient in regard to your Lord that He is a Witness over all things?” [Fussilat 41:53]
“And whatever of misfortune befalls you, it is because of what your hands have earned. And He pardons much” [al-Shoora 42:30]
“So We punished each (of them) for his sins, of them were some on whom We sent Haasib (a violent wind with shower of stones) [as on the people of Loot (Lot)], and of them were some who were overtaken by As-Saihah [torment — awful cry, (as Thamood or Shu‘ayb’s people)], and of them were some whom We caused the earth to swallow [as Qaaroon (Korah)], and of them were some whom We drowned [as the people of Nooh (Noah), or Fir‘aun (Pharaoh) and his people]. It was not Allaah Who wronged them, but they wronged themselves” [al-‘Ankaboot 29:40]
“Did the people of the towns then feel secure against the coming of Our punishment by night while they were asleep? Or, did the people of the towns then feel secure against the coming of Our punishment in the forenoon while they were playing? Did they then feel secure against the Plan of Allaah? None feels secure from the Plan of Allaah except the people who are the losers.” [al-A’raaf 7:97-99]
And Allah Ta'Ala knows best
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