It's amazing how modern-day radical Muslims want to wipe out this small minority, but it looks like they have wanted to wipe out this minority for a long, long time.
Why some Muslims want to kill the Yazidis by genocide
By Amir Taheri
August 17, 2014 | 12:01am
To hear President Obama tell it, one might think that recent bombing raids by the US against jihadist positions between Mosul and Erbil in northern Iraq have already removed the threat of extermination posed against the Yazidis, a religious minority driven out of its ancestral home by the Islamic State of self-styled Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
However, several Yazidi spokesmen reached over the past few days insist that tens of thousands of people are still facing extermination and on Friday, 80 Yazidis were massacred by IS fighters.
Our people are dying of hunger, thirst and disease, says Magdi al-Yazidi. Those who have not left their homes are prisoners in their besieged villages around el-Qush and Shaikhan. They are simply coming to realize and old dream of fanatical Islamic rulers: wiping our community off the face of the earth.
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Why some Muslims want to kill the Yazidis by genocide
By Amir Taheri
August 17, 2014 | 12:01am
To hear President Obama tell it, one might think that recent bombing raids by the US against jihadist positions between Mosul and Erbil in northern Iraq have already removed the threat of extermination posed against the Yazidis, a religious minority driven out of its ancestral home by the Islamic State of self-styled Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
However, several Yazidi spokesmen reached over the past few days insist that tens of thousands of people are still facing extermination and on Friday, 80 Yazidis were massacred by IS fighters.
Our people are dying of hunger, thirst and disease, says Magdi al-Yazidi. Those who have not left their homes are prisoners in their besieged villages around el-Qush and Shaikhan. They are simply coming to realize and old dream of fanatical Islamic rulers: wiping our community off the face of the earth.
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Why some Muslims want to kill the Yazidis by genocide | New York Post