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So this was the impetus for your original comment. You just wanted to point out that Mosul didn’t belong to the Kurds. What a waste of time and energy and it’s

• someotherperson 4y ago
  Nothing belongs to “the Kurds” — this isn’t the 13th century, we don’t assign land to ethnic groups? I feel like I’m in the twilight zone. Would anybody in the right mind say that Ohio belongs to the Whites? Or Chicago belongs to the Blacks? Yet somehow you’ve managed to completely misread my post, ignored the fact that the first mention of Mosul was in a reply, and then made a reference to a region “belonging” to an ethnic group. It’s probably why hopelessly racist, hyper political publications like this one get a pass. Outside the Middle East: “we’re all one!! Undivided!” Inside the Middle East: “if you’re not divided on racial, religious and ethnic groups then you’re unhappy!”