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To: Oorang
I know, *sigh* I know, but I keep hoping he'll do one thing right.

There is one exception:

There is one, exactly one, case where obama isn’t backing the most muslim side.

It’s protecting the Yazidis.

Who are the Yazidis?

The Yazidis are an ancient religion, one whose people revere Melek Taus, who is also known as the Peacock Angel, or Shaytan, or in English: Satan.

IOW, obama consistently supports any muslim over any Christian, the most radical muslims over more moderate muslims, and Satan worshipers over the most radical of muslims.

Any questions?

15 posted on 08/14/2014 6:42:48 AM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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To: null and void

First time I ever heard of the Yezidis was in the Gurdjieff’s “Meetings with Remarkable Men”

(From a J.G. Bennett website):

“The adolescent Gurdjieff saw a small boy weeping and struggling to escape, and being mocked by the other children:

I was puzzled and asked what it was all about. I learned that the boy in the middle was a Yezidi and the circle had been drawn round him and that he could not get out of it until it was rubbed away. The child was indeed trying with all his might to leave this magic circle, but he struggled in vain. I ran up to him and quickly rubbed out part of the circle, and immediately he dashed out and ran away as fast as he could

In 1888 the 16-year-old Gurdjieff witnessed a strange incident: he saw a little boy, weeping and making strange movements, struggling with all his might to break out of a circle drawn around him by other boys. Gurdjieff released the boy by erasing part of the circle and the child ran from his tormentors. The boy, Gurdjieff learned, was a Yezidi. He had heard only that Yezidis were “a sect living in Transcaucasia, mainly in the regions near Mount Ararat. They are sometimes called devil-worshippers.” Astonished by the incident, Gurdjieff made a point of telling us that he felt compelled to think seriously about the Yezidis. Inquiring of the adults he knew, he received contradictory opinions representative of the usual, prejudiced view of the Yezidis. But Gurdjieff remained unsatisfied.

A Complicated History

The story of the Yezidis can be traced back more than four thousand years—before they came to be called Yezidis—until the trail disappears into an unrecorded ‘prehistory.’ Based on few accounts, and those often contradictory, it is complex and difficult to follow.

Typical of the difficulties is a story told by the anthropologist Sami Said Ahmed, who completed a massive study of the Yezidis in 1975. He was given two manuscripts at different times, written by a Yezidi friend. Each purported to explain the beliefs of Yezidism with seemingly superficial legendary tales taken as fact, and each contradicted the other. Working assiduously, Ahmed eventually found that the manuscripts contained real facts and genuine articles of Yezidi belief, but in disguised form. When told of this, the Yezidi friend replied, “The book which I presented to you contains only one (fact) of the thousands (of facts) of Yezidism.” Further, he maintained that “Yezidism is the mother of all Eastern religions.”

Here we see some of the problems commonly encountered in attempting to understand the Yezidis. The first, and apparently the easiest to grasp, is their legendary secrecy—the keeping of their beliefs and practices hidden for fear of persecution for holding beliefs and practices that lie outside the sphere of orthodox approval. Again and again, they resisted conversion to Islam—or Christianity—except when they took on the outward forms for a period of time to avoid certain destruction.”

More here:

http://bennettpilgrimages.org/2014/08/07/gurdjieff-meetings-with-remarkable-men-bogachevsky-gurdjieff-introduces-the-yezidi/


25 posted on 08/14/2014 7:23:39 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: null and void

The Yazidis sure are a strange bunch when it comes to their religious beliefs. Seems like they collected a little from just about every religion prior to Christianity, including paganism to get the devil worship. But, it seems like they haven’t turned bloodthirsty and truly evil in their actions as the muslims have. ISIS wants to kill anyone and everyone who will not convert to their ways, hence the evil persecution of the Yazidis.
As a side note…I wish the news “readers” would quit lumping the Iraqi Christians and the Yazidis in their reporting, makes them sound like the Yazidis are Iraqi Christians. Never the less, the true evil here is ISIS, IMO, they are the embodiment of the devil on earth.


31 posted on 08/14/2014 9:44:30 AM PDT by Oorang (Tyranny thrives where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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To: null and void
Whoa.....The Yazidis are an ancient religion, one whose people revere Melek Taus, who is also known as the Peacock Angel, or Shaytan, or in English: Satan. ....Amazing. Amazing that the leadership in this country has sunken so low, and so unashamedly.
34 posted on 08/14/2014 12:22:37 PM PDT by SisterK
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