Tags: Political Party.
The Islamic Movement of Kurdistan (or Kurdistan Islamic Movement) 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 (Yaketi Mamostayani Ayni Islami). The party’s main support comes from in and around that town of Halabjah. In the region controlled by the Islamic Movement in Kurdistan the party established its own infrastructure but did not seek to apply Sharia law.