Posted on 08/14/2014 1:38:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Yazidis fleeing a jihadist onslaught in northern Iraq say neighbours took up arms alongside their attackers, informing on members of the religious minority and helping the militants take over.
"The (non-Iraqi) jihadists were Afghans, Bosnians, Arabs and even Americans and British fighters," said Sabah Hajji Hassan, a 68-year-old Yazidi who managed to flee the bloody offensive by the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group.
"But the worst killings came from the people living among us, our (Sunni) Muslim neighbours."
"The Metwet, Khawata and Kejala tribes -- they were all our neighbours. But they joined the IS, took heavy weapons from them, and informed on who was Yazidi and who was not. Our neighbours made the IS takeover possible," the distraught white-bearded Hassan said.
The IS attack on Yazidi villages in the area of Mount Sinjar began nearly two weeks ago, the latest chapter in an offensive that has seen the jihadist group seize large swathes of Iraqi territory, forcing minorities either to convert to Islam, flee or be killed.
The IS onslaught in Iraq, which began in June and has since overrun chunks of five provinces, is the culmination of a more than year-long surge in violence in which hundreds of Iraqis have been killed each month.
"The Sunni tribes in our area were given a choice by the IS: either they collaborate or they get killed. So they joined them," said Mahmud Haidar, a 24-year-old Yazidi who managed to flee.
Haidar is a former member of Iraq's security forces.
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Obama’s fault.
NEVER arm a moderate muslEm........instant radicalization
Integrated neighborhoods are doomed to fail. Coming to an American street near you...
Oh yes, the Bosnians who we spent our blood and treasure to free from those “Evil” Serbs.
No good deed goes unpunished as they say.
Proving, once again, never trust a Muslim, starting with the ones in the US.
In America, I envision an influential figure calling for ‘Mexicans’ to rise for Aztlan or ‘reconquista’. Hell, Barry is darn near doing that NOW. SHTF times ahead.
(in the White House).
“But the worst killings came from the people living among us, our (Sunni) Muslim neighbours.”
A cautionary tale.
not to worry
now that obama’s crack national security team has managed to depose the constitutionally elected PM Maliki, the Sunni’s will join an “inclusive” government and lay down arms
sarc
Never trust anyone who considers the qoran (or whatever it is) a “holy” book.
If their “holy” book calls for the killing of Christians and Jews, which it does, then how can anyone know for sure who will follow, and who won’t.
How many muslims were quiet, seemingly normal citizens, until they acted on their jihadist duties?
No surprise here. Read Brigitte Gabriel’s, “Why They Hate”. No difference here from what the PLO/Muslims did in Lebanon to their Christian “Neighbors”.
Musta’ been those ‘moderate’ Muslimes.
“Yazidis fleeing a jihadist onslaught in northern Iraq say neighbours took up arms alongside their attackers, informing on members of the religious minority and helping the militants take over.”
Hmmm, I wonder, if they are able to kick the muslims out in the future, if they will have an “Inqusition” that targets these people. Kinda like what happened in....
Muslims being Muslims.
Does anyone know why the press is now calling them Yazidis instead of Kurds?
RE: Does anyone know why the press is now calling them Yazidis instead of Kurds?
It is used to DIFFERENTIATE the diverse religions the Kurds have.
The Kurds are more religiously tolerant than most Muslims and resist Islamic radicalism ( I have a few Jurdish friends here in New York. They are not very “religious” at all and are not into the praying 5 times a day thing ).
Although most Kurds are Sunni Muslims, there are Kurdish Yazidis, Kurdish Yarsans, Kurdish Jews (SURPRISE!), Kurdish Zoroastrians, and Kurdish Christians.
The stark division of the sexes in orthodox Islamic regimes does not exist among Kurds. To these people, who have struggled so long to have a nation, Kurdish independence trumps religious militancy.
Thanks, you did an excellent job explaining that.
According to Obama, Iraq is solved. People on mountain all safe now and Maliki gone. New guy will be inclusive and the ISIS bunch is all going to sit down and break bread with all factions in Iraq.
See how easy that all was?
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