Islamic Kurdish League

The Islamic Kurdish League (Kurdish: Yekgırtiya İslamiya Kurdi) is a Kurdish Islamic Sunni social service organization, in Iraqi Kurdistan. The group is supported politically by the Kurdistan Islamic Union.[1]

Activities

The group's official website reports that their organization established 552 mosques in the Iraqi cities of Dohuk, Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, Kirkuk and Mosul from the years of 1992 to 2007. The group also claims to have built 16 schools and established a number of health centers and water projects.[2]

Funding

According to the Washington Post, the group is supported by Saudi religious charities, which advocate the spread of Wahabi Islam in Kurdish areas. Saudi groups have provided the funding for the mosques established by the Islamic Kurdish League.[3] The group's website lists a number of Arab charities based in Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Kuwait as the source for some $9.9 million in construction funding.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Rubin, Michael. The Islamist Threat in Iraqi Kurdistan." Middle East Intelligence Bulletin, Volume 3, No. 12. December 2001. Accessed Oct. 20, 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Department of Reconstruction." Islamic Kurdish League. iklkurd.com. Accessed October 20, 2014.
  3. ↑ O'Leary, Carole. "Extremists in a Modern Land." Washington Post. Sunday, August 11, 2002.

External links