Hewlêr. Mosque in the Citadel.
According official statistics, among the 3.686 mosques of Kurdistan Region, most of them call – what a horrible surprise ! – with ARAB names, the ministry of Islamic Affairs decided to change them with the names of Kurdish religious figures… According the the ministry’s media director Meriwan al-Naqshabandi, they wish to give a “national identity” to religious institutions. Of course the decision dos not make only happy people in islamic circles.
Because they have suffered of an Arabization policy under Iraqi rule, and then face pro-Saudi or Al Qaeda attacks, we could understand that some Kurds want to oppose to these extremists a local islam, a Kurdish islam, inspired and supported by sufism and praising Kurdish sheikhs who took an important part in Kurdish struggle…
But at the end, it will be so difficult to eradicate entirely the Arab roots of islam, than for a Antisemit christian to aryanize Jesus. Or perhaps some nationalists will discover that a certain qoyrayshi clan, living in Mecca around 7th century B.C had, in fact, Kurdish blood… After all, “Pêxemberê Memo” sounds not bad…
(sources Kurdnet).
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