This is true. From the Kurds that I’ve come across...if you measured them on Muslim-ness...they just never get hyped up on the religion. A lot of them are natural born traders or businessmen. It’s odd how this one single ethnic group just walked around the radical nature of Islam, and got caught in the middle of the Syrian civil war and ISIS.
1st, they have long been persecuted. Many of them escaped Massacres in Iraq and Turkey and arrived as refugees in Syria. They have seen the horrors of Muslim treatment of minorities.
In Iraq, almost all Kurds are moderate muslims. In Syria? They are truly secular in outlook. Many of them have become Atheist. There is a growing number of Christians, both among the Assyrian community and the Kurds. That is not discussed.
Even the Arabs in Syria are sick of ISIS and never want to go there again. That is why what Erdogan wants to do is not popular with anyone in Syria. And I don’t think they want any part of Iran either. Islamist is Islamist. Sunni or Shia.
So the bright spot of recovering stability is so threatening to the Islamist that they want to destroy the entire Kurd population and their allies.
Unfortunately Kurds are not unified. They have spent 100 years under bad governments in 4 countries. But what they are now facing in Efrin, may get the unification job done. I was told a couple of years ago, that it would take a long time to for unity to happen. If Turkey keeps pursuing this, they might actually get that job done and really open Pandora’s box.