Kurdistan on Tearful Map

[aldopacific at gn.apc.org]

At our Quaker meeting today a Pakistani Moslem academic spoke
movingly about how he'd found an old map from the last century
in his files, and Kurdistan was there as an almost complete
nation.

Placing it up on his wall moved him to tears.

He spoke of how our difficulty in taking on Kurdish issues has
so much to do with it having been our British empire which carved
up the map into what it looks like now. 

At the end of the meeting one of our peace group people gave
out the address where money can be sent for relief.

The kurds were entirely in our hearts during that Quaker
"meeting for worship". Our thoughts remain with you and,
I hope, some of our money too.

Alastair McIntosh.