The Kurdish National Congress of North America<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Date published: Wednesday, January 05, 2005<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In late December the dramatic Al-Jazeera<\/em> posted the provocative article What happened in Kurdish Halabja?<\/em> by Mohammed al-Obaidi . The article was full of lies, distortions, and pure hate towards the Kurds, and raised the ire of many decent people – Kurds and non-Kurds alike. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Unfortunately, the rabble-rousing style of Anti-Kurdishism<\/em> displayed in the article, both in tone and in content, has become a hallmark of the rhetoric of many of the Arab UberNationalists<\/em> and Saddam rehabilitators<\/em> who are regularly allowed media exposure on Arab television and through the print media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the Al-Jazeera<\/em> piece, al-Obaidi unabashedly denies and belittles the cold-blooded murder of over 5,000 Kurds in Halabja and thousands more in scores of other places as political manipulations and lurid imagination. He further compounds his claims by a slanderous and personal attack on the Washington Kurdish Institute, its Founder, its Board of Directors, and its Executive Director. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The writer s litany of cheap shots and baseless accusations is in reality no more than a collection of standard clich","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Kurdish National Congress of North America Date published: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 In late December the dramatic Al-Jazeera posted the provocative article What happened in Kurdish Halabja? by Mohammed al-Obaidi . The article was full of lies, distortions, and pure hate towards the Kurds, and raised the ire of many decent people – Kurds …<\/p>\n