An Independent Kurdistan Can Bolster The Abraham Accords

Hamawandi also thinks this will be good for Christians: “The number of Christians in Iraq has recently exceeded 2 million Christians, but today we see less than half a million in a clear process of emptying Christians from Iraq, especially Baghdad, as well as for Jews who have been displaced in Iraq  and so on.”

“We are fed up with the game of inflaming religious conflicts and pushing religious intolerance to work at full capacity. Ordinary individuals in all religions do not know intolerance, but are tolerant by nature, and all they hope for in their world is to live more decently, some of them provoke the ideas they hear here or there, but in the end link them to their owners, because they believe in nature and religion has a God to protect.”

“But here I must emphasize an important thing: the Kurdistan region, despite its simple living, has indirectly been able to create an Abrahamic religion without naming it and without urging it, simply because the policy pursued by the Kurdistan Region is based on words and actions on religious equality and the non-exposure of a religious party to another, which has created a parallel between the Abrahamic religions and has led them to be a symbol of coexistence and peace.”

“As a Kurdish nationality, we are subjected to the fact that all the pain we have experienced is displacement, murder, imprisonment, exile, division and much more, and we know what it means to exclude one side at the expense of another,” Hamawandi concluded.

“Therefore, Kurdistan was and still is the size of a country that knows ways to establish peace, security, love, gratitude and even equality. A geographically independent Kurdistan, intellectually and ideologically independent, may have been one of the first civilizations to unite religions in a single crucible of peace.”