[July 4th]

Kurds are Kurds, not Arabs, but are for the most part Muslim. Just like the Iranians are not Arabs either - they're Muslim Persians. (There were a fair amount of Jewish Iranians too, but just like Iraq, they fled or were killed.)

[jim_trent]

You and sheik yerbouty are missing the point. My question was: Why do all the others around them hate Kurds -- to the point of killing them wholesale?