The tight-knit Yazidi faith, which prohibits interfaith marriage and conversion into the religion, is also grappling with integrating babies conceived-out-of-rape to ISIS fathers. Community leaders have called for the infants to be embraced, but the notion is a strange and unsettling one for the...
They were kidnapped, enslaved and raped by ISIS terrorists when they invaded #Sinjar on August 3, 2014.6 Posted by Luke Ford's barbarous right wing religion on Mon, 02 Dec 2019 07:08 | # A Yazidi woman who had been a sex slave to Isis confronts her former...
ISIS militants still mingle among the refugees, and the forces that run the sprawling camp say they can do little to change the realities within its perimeter. Yazidism, a religion that predates Islam, is considered heretical devil worship by ISIS and other Sunni Muslim extremist groups. Follow...
The remaining women were soon introduced to ISIS fighters and told they were now their property and would accompany them to Syria. ISIS justifies killing, raping and enslaving Yazidis by calling them “devil worshippers,” as their very ancient religion blends elements from all the Abrahamic faiths...
from the tragedy, but official estimates hover between 100-200. While Yazidi’s religious authorities have announced that they will subvert their ancient traditions and accept the babies as Yazidis, the matter is further complicated by Baghdad’s law that children must take the paternal religion. ...
Yazīdī, member of aKurdishreligious minority found primarily in northernIraq, southeasternTurkey, northernSyria, theCaucasusregion, and parts ofIran. The Yazīdīreligionincludes elements of ancientIranianreligions as well as elements ofJudaism,Nestorian Christianity, andIslam. Although scattered and proba...