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Baronvonrort wrote on Nov 27 th, 2014 at 3:28pm: |dev|null wrote on Nov 27 th, 2014 at 3:18pm: Baronvonrort wrote on Nov 27 th, 2014 at 12:40pm: polite_gandalf wrote on Nov 27 th, 2014 at 12:32pm: Baronvonrort wrote on Nov 27 th, 2014 at 12:10pm: The Kurds are good people Goodness Baron - surely you wouldn't be referring to devout muslims as "good people" now would you? You clean out your mouth right now. The Kurds are not muslims, the constitution of the rojava cantons has nothing in common with Islam. Quote:Religion
As a whole, the Kurdish people are adherents to a large number of different religions and creeds, perhaps constituting the most religiously diverse people of West Asia. Traditionally, Kurds have been known to take great liberties with their practices. This sentiment is reflected in the saying "Compared to the unbeliever, the Kurd is a Muslim".[187]
Islam
Main articles: Islam and Alevi
Today, the majority of Kurds are Sunni Muslim, belonging to the Shafi school.
There is also a minority of Kurds who are Shia Muslims, primarily living in the Ilam and Kermanshah provinces of Iran, Central and south eastern Iraq (Fayli Kurds)
Mystical practices and participation in Sufi orders are also widespread among Kurds.[188]
The Alevis (usually considered adherents of a branch of Shia Islam with elements of Sufism) are another religious minority among the Kurds, living in Eastern Anatolia. Alevism developed out of the teachings of Haji Bektash Veli, a 13th-century mystic from Khorasan. Among the Qizilbash, the militant groups which predate the Alevis and helped establish the Safavid Dynasty, there were numerous Kurdish tribes. The American missionary Stephen van Renssalaer Trowbridge, working at Aintab (present Gaziantep) reported [189] that his Alevi acquaintances considered as their highest spiritual leaders an Ahl-i Haqq sayyid family in the Guran district.[190] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurds#Religion] Are you really this ignore deliberately? Don't know here you're pulling this stuff from but its not what's called knowledge. Must be smacking ignorance. Wiki is not a credible source, are you really that stupid? Prove what it states is wrong Baron or piss off. You got caught out. Circumstantial evidence like yours doesn't count. Show something that states that the major of Kurds are not Muslim. Quote: The majority of the Kurds are Muslims, and most of the Muslim Kurds are Sunnis. Each year thousands of them go on the hajj, throwing away thousands of gold pieces for the voyage. In every village, little by little a mosque has been built, and the people support mullas and divines. They give a tenth of their income to the mullas and the poor, a nd they gather five times a day in the mosque and pray. Once a week, on Fridays, they perform a large prayer and listen to a sermon in Arabic, but the villagers do not understand what the mulla says, they only bend their heads and daydream a little; and at times some of them cry. For the only thing that they know is that the words of the mulla are the words of God and the prophets. Quote:Religious Diversity in Kurdistan
Perhaps two thirds or three quarters of the Kurds are, nominally at least orthodox Sunni Muslims. Most of them follow the Shafi'i mazhab (school of Islamic jurisprudence), which distinguishes them from their Turkish and Arab Sunn i neighbours, who generally follow the Hanafi school.4
To some Kurds therefore the Shafi`i mazhab has become one of the outward signs by which they assert their ethnic identity. Islamic law has rules for virtually all aspects of human behavior and the four mazhabs have slightly different interpretations of these rules.
Shafi`is perform, for instance, the morning prayer at an earlier time than Hanafis, they keep their hands in a different position during prayer, and have different rules for what disturbs ritual purity. Such minor details in behaviour have at times been deliberately used by Kurds to distance themselves from Turks and Arabs. In Iran the difference between the Sunni Kurds and the Shiite Persians and Azerbaijanis is even more conspicuous. After the Iranian Revolution most of the Iranian Kurds opposed the id ea of an Islamic Republic, and Sunni-Shiite antagonism played an important part here.5
The southernmost part of Kurdistan, however, the province of Kirmanshah in Iran and the districts of Khanaqin and Mandali in Iraq, are predominantly Shiite. The Shiite Kurds of Iran have never taken part in the Kurdish national movement; in the first years after the Revolution the central government could easily recruit Kurds from akhtaran to fight against the rebellious Kurds further north.
In Iraq, on the other hand, there has never been such a clear split between Sunni and Shiite Kurds. An interesting case is that of the Faylis, a Shiite community in Baghdad who are not recognized as Iraqi citizens because of their alleged or real Iranian descent. The Faylis are Arabic speakers, but they have gradually come to consider themselves as Kurds (and are accepted by the Kurds as such); some Faylis have even played leading roles in the Kurdish movement.6 [http://www.hum.uu.nl/medewerkers/m.vanbruinessen/publications/Bruinessen_Religion_in_Kurdistan.pdf]
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