Kurd Hamas
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The Kurd, Islamic Hamas
Hamas
Hamas is the Palestinian Sunni Islamic or Islamist political party that governs the Gaza Strip. Hamas also has a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades...

  was founded in Germian, a city in north Iraq. The Kurd Hamas split from the Islamic Movement of Kurdistan
Islamic Movement of Kurdistan
The Islamic Movement of Kurdistan is an Islamist group founded in 1979 by Shaykh Uthman Abd-Aziz and several other Sunni mullahs who were all part of the non-political "Union of Religious Scholars" . The party's main support comes from in and around that town of Halabjah...

 in 1997. They protested against the agreement between the Islamic Movement and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan is a Kurdish political party in Iraqi Kurdistan. The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan was founded on June 1, 1975, by coordinations between Jalal Talabani and Nawshirwan Mustafa...

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They are against cooperation with any western oriented political party. In 2001 the Kurdish Hamas united with the Tauhid to form Jund al-Islam.

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