Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, photo by Antonio Graceffo Sitting on the second story of a café in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, I looked out over the beautiful city the Kurds have built and maintained despite decades of war. It was clear that religious freedom and racial tolerance had created safety and prosperity, while attempts by Islamist groups such as al-Qaeda and the Taliban to establish theocracies, or ISIS to create a caliphate, had only brought death, repression, poverty, and suffering. “During the war with ISIS, if they captured our village, they would just behead us,” said 38-year-old Dlo, country director of Free the Oppressed, DBA Free Burma Rangers in Iraq and Kurdistan. “Oh, they would behead us for sure. Even though we were…
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