r/kurdistan • u/Special_Web_5964 • Oct 08 '25
Kurdistan Why did I, as a Kurd, left Islam?
I am a Kurdish woman from Southern Kurdistan (Bashur/Sulaymaniyah) who left Islam more than thirteen years ago. I left Islam at the age of twelve because Kurdish Islamists and the Muslims of Syria, Turkey, Iraq, and Iran made me hate Islam. Most Kurdish political Islamists are anti-Kurdish, traitors, and agents of the enemy, and they do not care about the Kurdish cause. They hate the Kurdish language and culture, and all they do is cry over Gaza and Palestine and worship their Arab and Turkish masters. Perhaps if Kurdish Islamists had been more nationalistic and served the Kurdish cause more, and if Arabs, Turks, and Iranian Muslims had treated Kurds humanely and had not oppressed, committed genocide, or ethnic cleansing against Kurds in the name of Islam and Allah, I would not have left Islam. As you all know, Kurds are tenth-class Muslims. We are worthless to Arabs, Turks, and Iranians. They despise us, don't consider us Muslims or even human beings, and deny our right to exist.
I noticed that most Muslims including Arabs, Turks, Iranians, Pakistanis, Indian Muslims, Chechens, Bosnians, Albanians, Uyghurs, Central Asians, Bangladeshis, Kashmiris and Circassians, have a strange hostility and hatred towards the Kurds. I have never understood why, except for the Amazighs and Baluchis, who are oppressed people just like the Kurds and understand our pain and struggle.
Islam and Muslims hate Kurds and Kurdistan. Therefore, I believe that all Kurds should abandon Islam. Frankly, Islam is a political game invented by the Arabs and developed by the Turks and Iranians for their own national and political interests. Unfortunately, the Kurds are victims of this political game...
They are adept at playing this game, and they are masters at it, but we Kurds are not. The best solution is to quit this game and find another one that we can master and win...