My answer to Mr. Prashant

Submitted by Debanjan Banerjee (India), Sep 10, 2011 at 00:01

Dear Mr. Prashant,

Even 100 years ago when the poisonous seeds of nationalism and sectariansim were not implanted upon the region by the West the Kurds , Turks and Arabs they used to live peacefully under one united Ottoman Caliphate. The real problem is western-educated , secular nationalists in Iraq , Syria , Iran , Kurds or Turkey. These are the people who divide brothers agaisnt each other and create these sectarian violence.

Remember there were no suicide bombings either in Iraq or Afghanistan and Pakistan prior to US involvement in these countries.

I am hopeful that if the intervening Western influences are removed from the region as well as their secular lackeys there will be more cooperation and unity among the people of the region irrespective of their language. Remember , the greatest Kurd to ever live on Earth was Saladin Ayubi whom every Muslim respects and prays for irrespective of his language and sect.

Do I sound Utopian ? Yes I am. But history plays in very interesting ways. How many of you would have thought of a Zionist homeland in the holy land inv 1942 ?

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