SandeepSinghToor

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Kurds and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant

Hello, there. I see someone has rudely reverted your second edit re the Kurds without giving a reason. I am the one who queried your first edit, as I wasn't clear what you meant (you probably saw my note on the "View history" pages). Your second version is: "However, they have also clashed with the Kurdish autonomous area’s troops in addition to govt and pro-govt forces." You must mean ISIS clashed with them, but by the Kurdish autonomous area's troops do you mean the Peshmerga? I couldn't find anything in the footnotes you gave about the Kurds which is why I was puzzled in the first place, or have I missed it? Let me know about this and if you can, find a footnote to back up the Kurds bit, and I will rewite that sentence. You can leave a message on my Talk page, or here if you like and I will check in, or on the article's Talk page. Cheers. --P123ct1 (talk) 00:01, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi, yes I reread the sentence I had added and saw the edit history and realized that the way I worded it was not very clear in respect to the kurds. I thank you in advance for your help, my main goal was to clarify that although the Kurds are a mostly Sunni Muslim people, they are mostly opposed to and fighting ISIS and not one of the Sunni muslim groups fighting with ISIS or against the government to keep it as accurate as possible, the last link I included is the one I should have used for that line and yes the Peshmerga (hard to keep track of the names of different groups) which are supposedly operating independent to the Iraqi government and not on the offensive SandeepSinghToor (talk) 04:22, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

http://time.com/2905812/iraq-kurds-isis/ Entire article is based on the Kurds in the current conflict, main lines are

“We are sharing a thousand-kilometer border with the terrorists,” said Yawar, General Secretary of the Ministry of Peshmerga, the Kurdish armed forces alarmed by the ISIS gains. “Right now the Peshmerga just want to defend and strengthen this line and stop the terrorists from entering Kurdistan.”

"But officials in the Kurdish administrative center of Erbil say they won't be quick to join Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s fight. Erbil warned Baghdad about the impending assault on Mosul and the northern province, according to sources in the Kurdish government, but there was no action from the capital. Once ISIS entered the city, there was a call from Baghdad requesting Peshmerga assistance, but at that point it was declined. So far, there has been no official request for Kurdish forces to cross their newly-held border."

this link is just an explanation into skirmishes between ISIS and the Peshmerga - "http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/iraq-turmoil/kurdish-peshmerga-fight-endless-stream-isis-militants-iraq-n136586"

If there is anything I can do to help, just let me know. Thank you for your help

Thanks for your clear explanation. I remember now why I was at first unclear about the clashes between the Kurds and ISIS you mentioned. I did, in fact, read your original footnote about them, but it didn't describe why they were clashing with ISIS - that was my problem - but the new footnote you supply explains it very clearly. I have put both in - the original one can at least provide some background.

I started to expand on your paragraph, but found myself almost writing an essay about the part the Kurds are playing in this conflict, which is quite complex (to do with their own aspirations to become an independent state as much as anything), but this article is about ISIS, so I have kept as close to your original paragraph as possible, just clarifying it, and adding in the new footnote. People can now follow up the Kurdish connection if they want to via those two footnotes. Phew. Problem solved, I think! Hope you agree with what I have done. Let me know if you would like to adjust it. --P123ct1 (talk) 14:23, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

No, I read through it and felt you summarized the Kurd's role exactly, thanks again SandeepSinghToor (talk) 18:19, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

Don't be alarmed, I have removed yours and another paragraph in the Lead to the "2014 events" section, as per request at head of Lead. --P123ct1 (talk) 01:24, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

No problem, as long as the info is known by you guys it is all I set out to do

Prophet

Hi - could you please take a look at MOS:ISLAM? We don't write (except of course if it's a quotation) "Prophet Muhammad" - if necessary the first mention of him can say the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, after that just Muhammad. In the same way we usually refer to Jesus, not Jesus Christ or Christ. Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 09:02, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

hi, I am not aware of any edits to any page I have made stating "Prophet Muhammad" so that wouldn't be a concern, but have called him that in talk pages which is probably where this was noted, I was unaware but I however do appreciate the info for future reference. thanks SandeepSinghToor (talk) 11:17, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

Oh I wasn't suggesting that you had done anything wrong at all. I just noticed that you probably weren't aware of the guideline. Wikipedia is so complex that even after 125,000+ edits I'm still learning! Dougweller (talk) 14:45, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

Oh of course, it was good you told me as the page is helpful should I make edits in the future, thanks again for the info! SandeepSinghToor (talk) 19:16, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

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