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I have certainly not interpreted it the way you have. I don't question the Islamic world's disavowal of ISIS. I understand radicalism and extremism not to be ISIS but the general illiberalism and yes, unfortunately, in case of anti-Semitism support for terrorism. Which the Islamic world does have a huge PR problem in consistently disavowing IMO. In that context, the exceptionalism of Kurds is not their fight with ISIS but the significantly different stance on Israel, civil liberties, women's rights and in the case of HDP even pushing the envelope on LGBT rights.

I run a personal social media account that's vaguely about Israel with a significant following of Middle Easterners and Pakistanis. I often get messaged by people wanting to do a little bit of debating (amongst the sea of hate mail of course). Which outside of a deep interest is where my personal experience comes from. Part of my family is nominally Muslim too so I'm always eager to look for any signs of Islamic liberalism.

Of course now that you have written it out this way I can understand your reading of that comment too. And, yes, the comment about Turkey I have overlooked.



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