Islamic Group in Kurdistan

The Islamic community in Kurdistan ( Sorani: كؤمةلي ئيسلامي لة كوردستان - Komala Islami Kurdistan le ) is an Islamic party in northern Iraq, which seceded in May 2001 by the Islamic Unity Movement of Kurdistan. Led is the party of Mulla Ali Bashir, a former member of the Islamic Movement in Kurdistan. The party has its headquarters in Kurmal and surrounding areas on the border with Iran.

The party is allegedly supported by the PUK. She was, at least until the American invasion in March 2003 as a moderate, but to have had links with the radical group Ansar al -Islam, which was denied by herself in a statement of 11 October 2004. In an interview in 2003 ( Komele Islami ) Bashir said the Islamic Group in Kurdistan seeking communion with all Islamic, Salafi and Sunni groups.

The party did not participate in the Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan in the 2005 elections, but went on regardless. She received 60,000 votes (0.7%) and two seats in the Iraqi National Assembly. After the elections, the party to the Kurdistan Alliance Group in the National Assembly. In the 2010 parliamentary elections the party won two seats again.