Original sentence: " Salim al-Shabaki, a representative of Shabaks in the Iraqi parliament - "The Shabaks are part of the Kurdish nation", he emphasized that Shabaks are ethnically Kurdish (2016).A majority of Shabaks regard themselves as Shia Muslims, and a minority identify as Sunni  However, despite this, their actual faith and rituals differ from Islam’s, and have characteristics that make them distinct from neighboring Muslim populations.Members of the three Kurdish tribes of Bajalan (or Bajarwans), Zangana and Dawoody have been integrated into the Shabak society but still speak Kurmanji Kurdish.The Shabak people (, ) are a group in Iraq, who speak Shabaki, a Northwestern Iranian language of the Kurdish Zaza–Gorani group.The Shabaks live in a religious community (ta'ifa) in about thirty-five villages to the east of Mosul.The ancestors of Shabaks were followers of the Safaviyya order, which was founded by the Kurdish mystic Safi-ad-din Ardabili in the early 14th century
Edited sentence: " Salim al-Shabaki, a representative of Shabaks in the Iraqi parliament, said "The Shabaks are part of the Kurdish nation", emphasizing that Shabaks are ethnically Kurdish (2016).A majority of Shabaks regard themselves as Shia Muslims, and a minority identify as Sunni.However, despite this, their actual faith and rituals differ from Islam's, and have characteristics that make them distinct from neighboring Muslim populations.Shabaks are culturally distinct from Kurds and Arabs, yet they are 98% Kurdish and 2% Iraqi Arabs.The Shabak people are an ethno-religious group in Iraq, who speak Shabaki, a Northwestern Iranian language of the Zaza–Gorani group.The Shabaks live in a religious community (ta'ifa) in about sixty-five villages to the east of Mosul.They have been recognized as a distinct ethnic group in Iraq since 1952.They possess their own traditions and language