Why did Arab nations show support to Saddam Hussein while he was
genociding Kurds?

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Thomas Ryugo

Don’t forget that at the time Saddam Hussein was using poison gas on
Kurds in Halabja in 1988, there wasn’t a single Arab democracy. All of
the Arab nations were ruled by dictatorships in some form - Egypt,
Libya, Saudi Arabia, Syria, etc. As such, state-controlled media set the
tone.

Granted, there’s no shortage of racial prejudice in the Middle East and
the Kurds are subject to such prejudices just like Israeli Jews. Still,
I have to think that most ordinary Arabs aren’t any more supportive of genocide than any other group of people - but in dictatorships, people
are circumspect about their true feelings vs the regime’s official party line.

Several American journalists remarked that in the weeks leading up to
the Iraq War and Saddam Hussein’s ouster, numerous Arab people in
different countries would confront them saying “You infidel Christian crusaders, Yankee imperialist dogs” and then whisper “But as long as you’re going to oust Saddam Hussein anyway, why don’t you also get rid
of - take your pick of Assad, Gaddafi, Saudi Royal Family, Algerian
generals - who’s just as bad as Saddam?”

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Himo Mustafa, I´m a Kurd.

For two main reasons:

Kurdophobia.
anti-Kurdism is the second biggest form of racism in the Middle East
after anti-Semitism.

2. Arab Supremacism and racism

Arabs are supremcist. They can´t accept others to be of equal status to
them. For example, Palestinian Arabs are against the Kurds and Kurdish
state but they want the Kurds and the whole world to support them
creating another Arab state. Because they are Arab, and we are Kurdish.
In other words, they are a superior race but we are not, they deserve a
state of their own but we don´t!!.

The only ethnic group in the ME who have stood with us are the Jewish
people.

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Nazyar Mustafa, knows Kurdish
Answered 1h ago
Because they are all Arabs, So Arabs choose to support Arabs instead of Humanity, plus they thought and still think of him as a Hero!

for example i once talked to an Arab from Morroco and she was saying
that Saddam is known as a hero in her country! ridiculous, isn’t it?

Also Palestinians think of him as a Hero, Take a look at what they made
in their streets.

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David Bar Itzhak, knows French
Answered 1h ago
The Arab world has very different perspectives on history and geopolitics.

Arab medias are very often pro conspirations, like on the 9/11
supposedly an inside job , or the Holocaust , supposedly fake.

So they will likely believe that Saddam was a 'good guy’ and he never
gased the kurdes.

That it is all 'western lies and propaganda’

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Omar Meriwani, Studied and lived in Baghdad, Worked with Iraqi
government in automation
Answered 1h ago
Arabs opinions were never based on justice or correctness but instead
they are based on shallow values such as the admire of speeches and the charisma. However, it's also possible to assume that Arab governments
didn't feel safe while seeing Saddam getting overthrown in this way, so
they directed the public opinion in this way as a precaution or as a way
to oppose what happened.

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