MESOP: The general madness continues on all sides – Muslim Kurds demonstrate against Yazidis in Iraqi Kurdistan

25 Nov 2015 – ezidipress – DUHOK, Kurdistan region ‘Iraq’,— A demonstration was held Monday against the Yazidis in the Kurdish city of Dohuk located in Iraqi Kurdistan, Ezidi press reported. Dozens of Muslim Kurds gathered at the office of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (PDK – Liqa 1) on Monday afternoon with banners and Kurdish flags, accusing Yazidis in Shingal (Sinjar) of “using violence against Kurdish Muslims”.

The Yazidis had killed “innocent, Kurdish Muslims and “were a threat to national security,” according to the demonstrators´ tenor. In addition, Yazidis were said to have set mosques on fire. The demonstrators called on the Kurdistan Regional Government KRG to stop “Yazidi violence against Muslims in Shingal”, as listed on one of the posters. As the terrorist militia “Islamic State” (IS) invaded the main settlement area of the Yazidis Shingal in northwest Iraq, Kurdish Muslims resident there participated in the mass murders and kidnappings.

The majority of the Kurdish population in Dohuk received the Yazidi refugees with open arms over the past year, as they had to flee from the terrorist militia IS in Shingal. The Kurdish population in the major cities is also considered to be open-minded. Hundreds of thousands of refugees have been provided by the Kurdish population with food, clothing and shelter.Nevertheless – especially in the conservative coined Dohuk – there are strong resentments against the Yazidi minority which are not least supported by Kurdish Salafists and their hate speeches. In the city, Yazidi traders are partly not able to sell their products because they are considered as “unclean”among conservative Muslims, as the secular leader Mir Tahsin Said Beg pointed out in an interview.

Dr. Abdul Wahid, a lecturer at the Islamic Faculty in Sulaimani, labelled Yazidis already in 2013 as “devil-worshipers” who were “not Kurds but Arabs”, calling them “unclean” and “kafir” (infidels). Abdul Wahid was later brought to court. Another Kurdish Salafist preacher openly urged Muslims “to kill” Yazidis. Dr. Abdul Latif, also a lecturer, provoked Yazidis in an interview after the genocide in Shingal, saying that Yazidi children killed by IS would go to hell because they “were not Muslims“.

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