Terrorists Threaten Shabak Kurds to Leave Mosul

PUKmedia           17:50         04/05/2008

The so called the Iraqi Islamic state of the al-Qaida terrorist organization threatened the Shabak Kurds in Mosul to leave the city or else they will be killed , an Iraqi MP of the United Iraqi Alliance   said in a statement on Sunday.
Iraqi MP and head of Iraqi Minorities Council, Hanin Kado, demanded the Nineveh operations commandment to protect the minorities in the province urgently .He also demanded that the Mosel security plan will be carried out soon and that all citizens of the city will be participated in joining the Iraqi army and police.
The Kurdish Shabak people are a minority group of Iraq who live in the province of Ninawa. Their language, Shabaki, is a Zaza-Gorani Kurdish dialect, with many borrowings from Turkish, Persian and Arabic. According to another source, they speak a dialect of Kurdish with borrowings from Arabic and Turkish. They are scattered in thirty five villages located in the east of Mosul. Their population was estimated at around 15,000 in the 1970s, some reports place the number as high as 400,000, and however a more likely estimate is in the 40,000 to 60,000 range.
A large part of the Shabaks follow a faith, which has every characteristic of an independent religion and distinct from Islam. It contains elements of Islam, as well as Christianity and other religions. There is a close affinity between the Shabak and the Yazidis, and Shabaks perform pilgrimage to Yazidi shrines. The Shabaks have a sacred book called the Buyruk written in Iraqi Turkmen colloquial. The Shabaks consist of three different (ta'ifs) or sects: the Bajalan, the Zengana, and the Shabak proper.