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Making a written statement on the month of Ramadan, KCK-Peoples and Beliefs Committee said, “We believe that Muslims who give zakat (almsgiving) to the Turkish state and the people and institutions associated with it will sin. Because no help can be given to a state and regime who forgive thieves, gangs, rapists, bribery, and leaves those who defend human values in jail to death. ”
A statement from the KCK-People and Beliefs Committee noted the following:
“Humanity is going through difficult times due to the outbreak caused by capitalism’s plunder of nature and decimation of society. We know from the holy scriptures that similar disasters have been experienced before. The scriptures state that such misfortunes are caused by cruel and self-dominating sovereigns, and by those who break with morals.
Breaking out of social morality means opening doors to all kinds of evil, trouble and misfortune. The process demands better awareness about what happens when religion and science are removed from social morality.
On the occasion of Ramadan, we invite Muslims, scholars and sheiks to think once more about these basic facts. We believe that democratic Muslims, especially Kurdish scholars and Sheiks, will remind people of humanitarian problems in this year’s Ramadan conversations, sermons and gatherings, and that sharing, justice and brotherhood are indispensable virtues. We urge the scholars to take a more courageous attitude towards those who strive, persecute, and destroy our nature and social life.
Kurdistanis entered Ramadan under attacks from the fascist Turkish state in addition to the virus pandemic. The attacks by the Turkish state expose our people to more serious problems and dangers. We believe that we will eliminate these dangers by fighting. We would like to remind you once again that the struggle of the Kurdish people against genocidal colonialism will be successful.
We call on the Muslims of Kurdistan to give their Zakat al-Fitr to patriotic institutions and individuals. Citizens of northern Kurdistan should not give their zakat to the colonial Turkish state and the people and institutions associated with it.
We believe that Muslims who give zakat to the Turkish state and the people and institutions associated with it will sin. Because no help can be given to a state and regime who forgive thieves, gangs, rapists, bribery, and leaves those who defend human values in jail to death. All religions and beliefs should regard the support of such states and governments as a sin and struggle against them.”
The KCK-People and Beliefs Committee also made a call for national unity addressed to the people of Kurdistan in an open letter. The letter is as follows:
“Dear Kurdistanis,
As the people, the process we go through makes our national duties holy, like religious positions. Living freely in Kurdistan with our language, identity and culture is a right commanded by Islam. The colonialist Turkish state has waged war against this claim. It even uses the religion of Islam in this genocide attack. It wants to end Kurdishness with genocide. To this end, practices many immoral ways, it sends the bones from the body of a martyred guerrilla to his mother by mail.
It tries to put mischief among the Kurdish political forces. They want the Kurds to fight each other. This is a policy that the colonial Turkish state has always applied against the Kurdish people, creating friction among the Kurdish people and making the brother turn against the brother. Turkish colonialism wants to try this game of two hundred years, this time in the South.
In doing so, it is seen as having worked specifically on some forces in southern Kurdistan. Kurdish scholars and sheiks have a great role in removing this corruption of TR and establishing our national unity.
On the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan, we call on Kurdish scholars to fulfill their patriotic duties on a fundamental basis that will serve our democratic national union. We make this call, especially to the scholars and sheiks of southern Kurdistan, to religious orders and to communities. They have much more responsibility than other parts in the work of national unity, in nullifying the enemy’s mischief.
We call on North Eastern Syrian scholars and sheiks to contribute to democratic autonomy through democratic Islamic jurisprudence, to support and fight in a more organized manner against nationalism and sectarianism.
We hope that this fasting month will pass with goodness that will birth the unity, vitality and freedom of the Kurdish people permanently. We hope for the acceptance of the prayers of the Muslims, who are devoted to democratic and social moral values, and wish a blessed Ramadan.
We hope that this Ramadan will become a door for all of humanity to a life of peace and brotherhood.”
