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Save Kurdish Yezidis from Islamic
extremism
17.2.2007
By Alan Daudey |
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February 17, 2007,
eKurd.net
There are days of heavy fight between an Islamic
tribe and the Yezidis in Sheikhan, a town mostly
populated by Kurdish Yezidis. Many Yezidi holy
places have been burnt down and the fundamentalists
set fire to many cars and houses.
The cause of this turmoil is an alleged kidnapping
of a Muslim Kurdish girl by two Yezidi males. The
real story is that the girl of one of the
neighbouring Muslim tribes escaped a marriage
arranged by her parents, and on her way she asked
two Yezidi men for a lift to Duhok.
The tribesmen of the girl's family were furious and
took the girl away from the security of Sheikhan,
and was murdered immediately by her family because
she disgraced the family's honour. Her body was also
mutilated.
These acts of honour killing are still normal
practices in the backward society of South
Kurdistan.
The Islamic tribesmen even set fire to the house of
Yezidis leader Mir Tahsin, when the two males were
hiding in his house.
The happenings in Sheikhan are being heavily
censored and ignored by the official Kurdish
outlets. And there is also surprising silence and
passivity from KDP, the facto governors in the
region.
Unfortunately until this day the Yezidis, the only
remnants and holders of ancient Kurdish religion and
traditions, are being heavily suppressed, attacked
and stolen by their Muslim brethren. South Kurdistan
needs a social revolution before it can start a
serious nation building, and makes a step towards a
modern and healthy society.
Alan Daudey - ekurd.net
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