Islamism
Islamism (also often called political Islam or Islamic fundamentalism) is a political ideology which posits that modern states and regions should be reconstituted in constitutional, economic and judicial terms, in accordance with what is ...
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History
The ideology emerged after the abolition of the Caliphate and the creation of Turkey, two events which angered the Kurds. Many Kurds, who felt that their culture, religion, language, and people were endangered because of Atatürk's reforms, began turning to Kurdish Islamonationalism.
Many Islamist Kurds, including the more extreme ones like
Mullah Krekar
Najmuddin Vahid Faraj Ahmad ( ku, نەجمەدین وەحید فەرەج ئەحمەد, July 7, 1956), better known as Mullah Krekar ( ku, مه‌لا کرێکار), is an Iraqi Kurdish Sunni Islamic scholar and militiant who was the founder and f ...
, have some degree of nationalism. In some videos, Mullah Krekar spoke about Kurdish issues and independence. Although he always done so while maintaining his support for
Islamic extremism
Islamic extremism, Islamist extremism, or radical Islam, is used in reference to extremist beliefs and behaviors which are associated with the Islamic religion. These are controversial terms with varying definitions, ranging from academic unde ...
. He was described as "publishing political and nationalistic statements one day, and Jihadi statements on the next". Mullah Krekar is also populist, and his popularity in Iraqi Kurdistan rose between 2017 and 2019, mainly among the youth who were against the Kurdish government. Kurdish intellectual Hama Gharib advocated that mainstream Kurdish nationalism should be reformed to include Islam.
Kurdish Islamonationalism is against Turkish nationalism, Arab nationalism,
Iranian nationalism
Iranian nationalismPersian: ملی‌گرایی ایرانی
Baloch: راج دوستی ایرانی
Kurdish: نەتەوە پەروەریی ئێرانی
Gilaki: ایجانایی ایرانی
Azerbaijani: İran millətçiliyi
Turkmen: Eýrany ...
Kemalism
Kemalism ( tr, Kemalizm, also archaically ''Kamâlizm''), also known as Atatürkism ( tr, Atatürkçülük, Atatürkçü düşünce), or The Six Arrows ( tr, Altı Ok), is the founding official ideology of the Republic of Turkey.Eric J. Zurche ...
Ali Bapir
Ali Bapir, A.K.A Mamosta Ali Bapir ( ku, عه‌لی باپیر) is a Kurdish Islamic scholar and politician in Iraqi Kurdistan. He is the founder and current president of the Kurdistan Justice Group (formerly known as the Islamic Group of Kurd ...
is seen as the most prominent and influential Kurdish Islamist of today.
Criticism
Many of Kurdistan Islamic Union's politicians, including their leader Salahaddin Bahaaddin, have criticized the ideology, saying that "This is a huge heresy", "Islam can not be nationalized", and that "There is only one Islam, the Islam of Allah." Many other people have also called the ideology " chauvinistic", "
supremacist
Supremacism is the belief that a certain group of people is superior to all others. The supposed superior people can be defined by age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, language, social class, ideology, nation, culture, ...
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anti-Turkish
Anti-Turkish sentiment, also known as Anti-Turkism ( tr, Türk karşıtlığı), or Turkophobia () is hostility, intolerance, or xenophobia against Turkish people, Turkish culture and the Turkish language.
The term refers to intolerance, not onl ...
", " Anti-Arabism", and "un-scientific". The ideology is also hated by secular Kurds.
Islamic scholar Ihsan Senocak also once said "Neither Turkish-Islamic nationalism, nor Kurdish-Islamic nationalism. Only Islam."
Kurdish Hezbollah
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Free Cause Party
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Origin
Following the decision to end armed struggle in 2002, activists of the Hizbullah's Menzil group found ...
Kurdish Islamic Front
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Kurdistan Islamic Movement (Turkey)
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The orga ...
Islamic Party of Kurdistan
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Kurdish Hezbollah of Iran
Kurdish Hezbollah of Iran ( ku, حیزبوڵڵای کوردی ئیران; fa, حزب‌الله کردی از ایران) is an Islamist political party created in Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also cal ...
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Kurdish Revolutionary Hezbollah
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Organization of Iranian Kurdistan Struggle
The Organization of the Iranian Kurdistan Struggle ( ku, , fa, سازمان خبات انقلابی کردستان ایران), usually called Khabat (Kurdish for "struggle"), is an armed ethnic party of Kurds in Iran, currently exiled in north ...
Islamic Fayli Grouping in Iraq
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Both Fayli ...
Ali Abdulaziz Halabji
Ali Abdulaziz Halabji (December 28, 1929 – March 17, 2007) was a Kurdish Islamic scholar from Iraqi Kurdistan and one of the founders and second leader of the Kurdistan Islamic Movement.
Life
He was born on December 28, 1929, in the villag ...
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Ali Bapir
Ali Bapir, A.K.A Mamosta Ali Bapir ( ku, عه‌لی باپیر) is a Kurdish Islamic scholar and politician in Iraqi Kurdistan. He is the founder and current president of the Kurdistan Justice Group (formerly known as the Islamic Group of Kurd ...
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Mullah Krekar
Najmuddin Vahid Faraj Ahmad ( ku, نەجمەدین وەحید فەرەج ئەحمەد, July 7, 1956), better known as Mullah Krekar ( ku, مه‌لا کرێکار), is an Iraqi Kurdish Sunni Islamic scholar and militiant who was the founder and f ...
Assi al-Qawali
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Biograp ...
Salaheddine Bahaaeddin
Salahaddin Mohammed Bahaaddin Sadiq ( ku, سەڵاحەدین محەممەد بەهائەدین / Arabic: صلاح الدین محمد بهاء الدین) is a Kurdish Iraqi politician, (born July 1, 1950) in Tawela, a town referring to Halabja.H ...
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Bayan Nouri Dr Bayan Nouri Tawfeeq Nadir (born 11 January 1960, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq) is a Kurdish Iraqi politician who was Minister of Women's Affairs from 18 October 2014 to 16 August 2015.Khider Kosari
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Hüseyin Velioğlu Hüseyin Velioğlu (born Hüseyin Durmaz; 1952 – 17 January 2000) was the leader of the Kurdish Hezbollah, a militant extremist organization in the early 1990s. Velioğlu led one of the wings of this organization. He was killed in a police op ...
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Abu Abdullah al-Shafi'i
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Nasir Subhani
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Ezaddin Husseini
Sheikh Ezaddin Husseini (also referred to as Mamosta Ezaddin Husseini) was a Kurdish Islamic cleric, political leader, and figure.
Sheikh Ezadin Husseini, a famous and top clergy in Rojhalat, was the mediator between different forces in Kurd ...
See also
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Kurdish Muslims
Kurdish Muslims (Kurdish: موسڵمانی کورد; Musilmanên Kurd) are Kurds who follow Islam, which is the largest religion among Kurds and has been for centuries. Kurds largely became Muslims in the 7th century.
History
Before Islam, t ...
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Islamism
Islamism (also often called political Islam or Islamic fundamentalism) is a political ideology which posits that modern states and regions should be reconstituted in constitutional, economic and judicial terms, in accordance with what is ...
List of Kurdish organisations
The following is a list of Kurdish Organisations.
Europe UK
* Kurdish PEN
* Peace Mothers
Sweden
* Kurdish Student Academic Association
France
* Kurdish Institute of Paris
* Kurdistan Islamic Society
Belgium
* European Kurdish Democratic So ...
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Iranian Islamonationalism
The Religious-Nationalists (plural form in fa, ملّی‌مذهبی‌ها, Melli-Mazhabi ha, lit=The Nationalist-Religious Ones) or the National-Religious ( fa, ملّی‌مذهبی, Melli-Mazhabi as an adjective) are terms referring to a pol ...