Thanks for your reply, but you have me feeling very ignorant. OK, I could google, but freepers are smarter (lazier?) than google.
Can you give me a short explanation of those religions, because while I think I have heard of Alawites I thought they were a sect of Islam and Ezidy I’ve never heard of.
I mean, are they Christians? It would make me feel stupid to not have realized this, but of all the articles I’ve read about the Kurds I swear none ever made that clear.
If you want to tell me to go wiki myself, that will be OK too!
Ezidy are neither Christians nor Muslims. Their religion recognized as hard to comprehend for outsiders thus it is a monotheistic religion (single God - the creator centered). Their holy place is a Lalesh temple near Mosul, Iraq. They believe it is a place where God started to build Earth. There are also seven archangels and they worship the sun as well which brings a few pagan strings. In short, it is really a complicated cult.