Donald Trump  has said plenty of insane things that others have covered it but what about sane things he has said ?

1.  Media is Biased
   He is right. I specially find it interesting, when he points to the camera and says they don't show my 30,000 people but they show 2000 people of my opponent . However he only complains about it when the media doesn't work for him. I would be more happy if he points out that mainstream media is never a good source of information (even if it works for you)
2. No one is above the law, either we have a country or we don't.
   He is right, if we have a law that passing the border is illegal, the law is for everyone.
   However he doesn't seem to care about the law if breaking it work for his goals and values. (for example his not caring about privacy laws or eminent domain or treating detainees ....)
3. Special Interests and big donors control politicians.
   No comment needed.
4. We want people in our country who love our people. not people who love Sharia more than our constitution.
   He is right. current US visa system makes you show the ties to your culture, country, to give you a visa. ( that supposed to ensure you will go back to your country after your visa is ended because you are so tied to your own culture)
   
   So in the current system, we want religious people to come to USA to study in best universities learning high end technologies and then go back to their countries (which they end up not going back anyway) ?  rather than non-religious open-minded people who love USA more, to come study here and stay here?
   
   Also the current visa system, favors countries which the 9/11 attackers were from and weirdly some other countries which their citizens have not committed such attacks get a way longer wait period and way more security clearances.
   
   so he is right the visa system doesn't put america's interest first. 

The sane things that trump has said doesn't mean he believes in them. as he has said so many different things. he seems to just go with his heart and say whatever he feels is good at the moment. 

Like one might think Trump believe in none-intervention principle based on he keeps saying he was against Libya/Iraq war. but I saw a video he saying he wanted Obama to go into Libya and get rid of Qadafi.

So the sane things that trump has said doesn't necessary mean he believes in them. but it would be stupid to oppose them just because he has said it.

Orlando Terror attack happened.  Terrible Sadness.

and now all the medias are covering the story. Each political media has made this story the top story, trying to make a political point !

Left Media: We told you so, we need to ban riffle guns.
Right Media: We told you so, we need to acknowledge that we are in war with radical islam.

But both medias agree this was the worst terror attack since 9/11. and that coward's picture and name are on all social medias and TVs now.

As a Kurd in America. whose homeland is under attack by the same type of cowards. I would like to recommend this to my fellow Americans :

We can be sure that terrorist coward who attacked innocent defenselessness civilians in the middle of dance floor listening to music, would love all the attention he is getting right now.

We can be sure the other cowards who might attack soft targets, are enjoying fantasizing to be on the top of all the news, just like this coward. because being a coward is easy, attacking soft targets without any defense is easy.

Whether Left or Right, we should not fall for terrorists wishes.  They wished to be paid this much attention.  Instead I recommend sharing videos of Kurdish girls killing these cowards in battlefields. lets show video of these cowards running away from girls... when girls have a gun. Cowards like the Orlando's killer won't not stand a chance to commit such crimes. Let's show that these cowards are too little to be mentioned anywhere.

Let's not forget to show the Kurdish girls dancing before and dancing after each battle. because these coward terrorists hate dance. they hate music. 

Left or Right let's unite against these dark minded cowards let's not give them the attention they  ant.
The only attention they should get should be how coward they are, not how dangerous they are.

I invite you all to watch this documentary: 

Her War : Women Against ISIS

One of the last writings of Charlie Hebdo the French Journalist who was murdered by islamic terrorists in Paris. 7 Jan 2015:

Translation from French:

"Kurds are defending all of us.

I am not Kurdish, I don't know a single word in Kurdish, I can't give the name of a Kurdish author. Kurdish culture is totally stranger for me. Wait ! Sometimes, I ate Kurdish…

Today I am a Kurd, I think in Kurdish, I speak Kurdish, I sing in Kurdish, I cry in Kurdish. The Kurds who are surrounded in Syria are not only Kurds, they are the Humanity facing darkness. They defend their own lives, families, land, but, willingly or not, they are the only shield against 'Islamic State'. They defend all of us, not against a fantasized Islam which Daesh terrorists do not represent, but against the most barbarous gangsterism. How the so-called Coalition against the slaughterers could be credible, while, for different reasons, many of its members shared with them (and some are still sharing) strategical, political, economical interests ? Against Death and Cynicism, today, stand the Kurds." Stéphane Charbonnier, dit Charb, (21 Aug 1967 - 7 Jan 2015).

It has been a while since I posted the post about what I think about Trump's Muslim ban...

and as I expected I did receive nasty mails, some threaten me to be brave enough to share my identity, some tried to find out my identity through mutual friends but is it gonna stop me from expressing my opinion ? I don't think so !


Just to be clear I never supported Trump's banning Muslims coming to USA, and I ranked Trump the least favorable in the chart I made  for Kurds even lower than Hillary.
but I have criticism about the people who are against Trump for the wrong reaons and the wrong arguments also !

I only clearly asked, if you think Trump is wrong about banning a religion to enter USA, you must also think Muslim's banning non-muslims going to certain cities wrong too. ( which they actually do it in Saudi Arabia)

Anyway I did support Rand Paul and I did find him closest to the Kurdish spirit the spirit of freedom and liberty. the spirit that not compromising on Freedom of human for anything.

After the tragedy of Paris and California's terrorists attack by a Muslim couple, Trump published a new controversial message, to ban giving US visa to all Muslims temporary . 

This was a big news, one of those news that the people who you haven't talked to in a while would call you and say, "Hey did you hear what Donald Trump said ?"

Everyone I know is extremely mad at his comments (even progressive Muslims I know are mad at it).

I spent hours talking to myself, what do I think about this ? To be honest with you I did not like it either, no matter how secular I be, I hold a passport from an Islamic country, which already does make it hard for me to travel...this comments are not gonna make my life any easier.

However deep inside I am happy Donald Trump talked about it, this was a discussion we had to have, without hiding behind politically correct words. without being shy that someone might be offended. I hate it when people dislike something but don't have the guts to talk about it. 

I like to ask any muslim who is mad at Trump one question :

Is it morally acceptable for a country to ban a whole nation or religious group to enter the country? 

a highway exit in Saudi Arabia for non-muslems

In the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, Non-Muslims are not allowed to enter the city

an example passport banning Israel

Wikipedia has a list of islamic countries which will not accept an Israeli passport

The entire country of Israel is not allowed to travel to those countries, and it is NOT temporarily.

Mind that this banning non-muslims did NOT happen after a non-muslim blowed himself up into civilians or shoot a party of co-workers...

So I think if you are a muslim and you are really mad at Trump, I hope you are mad at Islamic countries for doing the worse than that. otherwise you will be hypocritical ! This is a good opportunity to test your logic and fairness.

Sometimes we humans want something from others, but  we are not willing to give the same back to them. and that is source of a lot of conflicts in the world. For example in Turkey, they have resisted to allow education in Kurdish language in primary schools for millions of Kurds in their own homeland, but Turkey is mad at Germany for not having Turkish-only language primary schools for immigrants. and Turkey's stupid banning Kurdish language has created a conflict which is still going on today... (list of Kurdish children killed by Turkish army  just in the past two weeks)

I think Donald's blunt unfiltered plan is not realistic to implement but it is an opportunity for all of us to start to think and have some blunt dialogue across the world.

Back in April I was driving with my mom through Michigan, my rental car had a mechanical problem and I stopped by to call Enterprise, and they forwarded me to some address to get a replacement car.

while I was driving without knowing where I am in Michigan, I saw a little sign that said Cafe Gulistan ! ...I was like wait a minute, Gulistan means Rosary in Kurdish...  I stopped by.I found a beautiful cafe covered with colorful flowers... and I almost burst into cry when I saw a beautiful Kurdistan flag

I found out his name is Ibrahim he was on the news in 1991, when he was tortured by Turkey and he got asylum in America. many years has passed now he has formed a family here and found peace in America. and a 4.5 star restaurant on Yelp.  my mom was super excited about the flowers and the small spring around the restaurant.

So I posted on Facebook how excited I was to see a Kurdish restaurant/bar for first time in USA, and I got another big surprise !!!! I had already met Ibrahims family during a protest against ISIS in Chicago. one of them is a photographer who took photos of our protest against ISIS in Michigan avenue (Chicago) and later infront of NBC channel and Turkish consulate. What a small world ...

Today I saw in facebook a shocking shocking news.... Ibrahim is being deported back to Turkey, the country which has started a big crack down on civilian kurdish people.

I felt so sad for America. I was wondering what if Ibrahim was an Arab Muslim who owned a Mosque and instead of a Kurdish Restaurant/Bar and instead of having a progressive family, he had a family covered in Burqa and Beard and someone wanted to shut down his Mosque and deport him back....now he would be in the news ...now Obama would invite him to the white house....
now the left media would be using his case to make a politically correct case.

Basically the media is saying:
Ibrahim you are not Mohammad ! You run a cute restaurant/bar not a mosque. you make delicious Kurdish food not fake-bomb-looking clocks. you get deported to where they torture you, not invited to white house.

I remember very well our protest in Chicago against ISIS (the one Ibrahim's family photographed) , was in front of NBC Headquarters, we heard ZERO coverage in NBC about our protest against ISIS. you know what was on NBC coverage instead ?...Guesss...it was something about Israel treating Palestinians badly. Obviously Kobani being slaughtered by ISIS and our protest right outside NBC HQ had no news value.

but I have to take this bitter fact again and again, we are Kurds, no matter how much we share values with Americans and with western civilizations, no matter how much we fight the darkest ideologies of middle east we are not gonna be heard by the main stream media. we have Zero Politically Correct value for NBC, CNN, ...


Sign the petition here,
and check out more information on Facebook group for friends of Ibrahim

When I asked a liberal friend to sign the petition he told me, why don't you ask Trump?  that is a good question, I wonder what presidential candidates think about this ?  please if you can ask Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Trump, Hilary what they think about USA helping the biggest supporter of ISIS to suppress Kurds?

Updates:
1- both Senator Peters (Democrat) and Senator Stabenow (Democrat) refused to help Ibrahim. 
2- I posted this on reddit, I didnt even get 1 vote up. (Ah...)
3- I tweeted at all the presidential candiates, nobody even responded.
4- his family has collected more than 5000 signatures so far. help them

5- Chicago reader posted this
6- Chicago Tribune posted this

This Google Chart will be updated as the news comes.
I gave each candidate score from 0 to 10 on different Kurdish topics, like how strong they believe America should Arm Kurds, Arm Kurds Directly, Accept Kurdistan's Independence, and Views on Turkey (the higher score the least chance of selling Kurds to Turkey), this is an interactive Google Chart and I will update it as news comes out. I will include the source of the news bellow.

Oops I just noticed I missed Marco Rubio... but I don't really feel like adding him to the chart right now.

 Rand Paul :

"Part of the problem is the Kurds aren’t getting enough arms, The Kurds are the best fighters. The arms are going through Baghdad to get to the Kurds and they’re being siphoned off and they’re not getting what they need. I think any arms coming from us or coming from any European countries ought to go directly to the Kurds. They seem to be the most effective and most determined fighters.
But I would go one step further: I would draw new lines for Kurdistan and I would promise them a country.:"  Source

Ted Cruz:

The Kurds, are boots on the ground right now. They’re fighting. They’re effective fighters. they’re loyal to us. They’ve been strong allies. and ISIS is using US military equipment that they seized in Iraq. The Kurds are using outmoded equipment, and the Obama administration refuses to provide weaponry to the Kurds because they think it would dismay Baghdad. I think that makes no sense. Source

Carly Fiorina:

“The Kurds have asked us to arm them for three years. We are not. I would,” Carly Fiorina said in a Fox Business Network debate on Nov. Source

Hilary Clinton:

"f we get the Turks to pay more attention to ISIS than they’re paying to the Kurds, if we do put together the kind of coalition with the specific tasks that I am outlining, I think we can be successful in destroying ISIS." Source

She praised the Kurds for fighting “bravely” against ISIS, even as the Iraqi national army, she said, was struggling and would need “more work to get it up to fighting shape.” Clinton spoke about the need to arm both Iraqi Kurds and Iraqi Sunnis to tackle ISIS. Source

Bernie Sanders:

Q:Would you support arming the Peshmerga, the Kurdish forces?

Yes. I think we should arm them--even that's a difficult issue to make sure that the people that we arm today don't turn against us tomorrow. But I think providing arms for those people who we can trust and providing air support is in fact something we should be doing.

Q: Would it be confined to the Peshmerga? I know that you voted against arming and training Syrian rebels. So is there a difference to you between the Peshmerga and the Syrian rebels?

We have been at war for 12 years. We have spent trillions of dollars. We have 500,000 young men and women who have come up--come home with PTSD and TBI. What I do not want and I fear very much is the US getting sucked into a quagmire and being involved in perpetual warfare year after year after year. That is my fear. Source

Marco Rubio:

In his plan to defeat ISIS mentions:
Provide arms directly to Sunni tribal and Kurdish forces if Baghdad fails to support them.