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Habib Atarodi needs to give-up supporting
the killers of his expatriates
22.1.2011
By Saeed Kakeyi - ekurd.net |
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January 22, 2011
Reading Mr. Habib Atarodi’s, yet again, insulting
response to my article written in defense of Dr.
Michael Rubin, adds nothing to Kurdish literature
and intelligentsia. However, I thank him for
degrading the style of my biography to a simple “job
resume.” Obviously, each one of us has different
worldviews, come from different civic-nationalities
and pursue different objectives with fewer
redundancies.
To make myself very clear, I have to admit that I
was mistaken in responding to him with an academic
language. Initially, I thought that I am engaging a
person with an understanding of “citizen diplomacy”
who appreciates the “cultural consequences” of
Collectivism vs. Individualism. However, his
personalized insulting response vis-à-vis my usage
of “tight-knit emotional intolerance, anarchist and
imaginary nationalism” as characteristics of the
collectivist culture, which virtually all Middle
Eastern societies belong to, made me to believe that
aside from his imaginary nationalism, there is
nothing in common I could share with him.
In fact, analyzing his denials of others as a form
of solidarity with the |
Saeed Kakeyi |
Kurds of Southern Kurdistan
[Iraqi Kurdistan] is anarchic and emotionally
overcharged due to his isolated singularity and
chronic frustrations with the Kurdish political
vacuum in Eastern Kurdistan. Although I am disturbed
by his traumatic Kurdishness, I still truly believe
his people need his pen and struggle more than
anybody else.
Mr. Atarodi needs to Leave Dr. Rubin and his Kurdish
friends alone. Instead, he is required to strongly
stand up for the daily hangings of his expatriate
Kurds in Eastern Kurdistan. Once he engages in that,
I am confident that he will read and watch Kurdish
media outlets and will realize that Saeed Kakeyi has
been a member of the Kurdish Writers’ Union since
1982 and that he holds the honour of being among the
few directors who helped with the lunching of the
MedTV in Belgium in 1994.
Mr. Atarodi’s belated yet abrupt Kurdish awakening
with attempts to challenge and discredit Kakeyi had
been tested unproductive by Massoud Barzani’s KDP
hired pens almost two decades ago. Mr. Atarodi needs
to admit that long before Dr. Rubin’s writings on
Kurdish affairs, Brarzani and his warlords not only
declared the PKK as a “terrorist organization,” but
also waged two devastating proxy wars against it;
one in 1992-93 and the other one from 1996-97.
In addition, as recently carried widely by media
outlets, Mr. Hoshyar Zibari, Massoud Barzani’s uncle
and a senior KDP Politburo in the capacity of Iraq’s
Minister of External Affairs, has declared the PKK
and the PJAK as two “terrorist” organizations.
Hence, if Mr. Atarodi is truly a Kurdish patriot,www.ekurd.nethe
should protest and refuse such declarations,
especially in the case of the PJAK since the latter
is trying to liberate Mr. Atarodi’s homeland from
the terrorist rein of the Islamic regime of Iran.
Finally, as Mr. Atarodi is approaching his
retirement age, he needs to give-up supporting the
killers of his expatriate KDPI Peshmargas in the
1980s; and, he needs to recognize that playing the
old tunes of the nepotistic and corrupt Barzani rule
in Kurdistan Region is no longer welcomed.
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