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ISIS committing ‘staggering array’ of human rights abuses in Iraq, UN says
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Drum beat to war:
ISIS committing ‘staggering array’ of human rights abuses in Iraq, UN says

Yazidi girls reveal the hell they endured during ISIS captivity:
Raped, tortured, forced to watch beheadings, then beaten when they tried to kill themselves.
Two teenage Yazidi girls have described the horror of being capture by Isis
Aged just 15 and 19, they saw men from their community mercilessly killed
Both were taken away to be sold on to men in the Iraqi city of Mosul
Hundreds of other Yazidi females suffered a similarly traumatic fate
The girls said some considered suicide rather than enduring their ordeal


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About the Yazidi religion:
Their religion is much older than Islam, Christianity, or possibly even Judasim by thousands of years. Due to its Zoroaster roots, its actually related more to Christianity then to Islam.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melek_Taus
Melek Taus (Kurdish: Tawusê Melek), translated in English as Peacock Angel is the Yazidi name for the central figure of Yazidi religion. In Yazidi creation stories, God created the world and entrusted it to the care of a Heptad of seven Holy Beings, often known as Angels or heft sirr (the Seven Mysteries). Preeminent among them is Tawûsê Melek (frequently known as "Melek Taus" in English publications), the Peacock Angel.

The Heptad sounds similar to the Egyptian concept of the Ogdoad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogdoad

Back to Malek Taus:
Muslims have accused Yazidis of devil worship due to the similarity between the Quranic story of Shaitan and the account of Tawûsê Melek's refusal to bow to Adam. Whereas Muslims revile Shaitan for refusing to submit to God and bow to Adam, believing that his defiance caused him to fall from God's grace,[4] Yazidis revere Tawûsê Melek for his independence.

The Yazidi consider Tawûsê Melek an emanation of God and a good, benevolent angel who has redeemed himself from his fall and has become a demiurge who created the cosmos from the Cosmic egg. After he repented, he wept for 7,000 years, his tears filling seven jars, which then quenched the fires of hell. Yazidis believe Tawûsê Melek is not a source of evil or wickedness. They consider him to be the leader of the archangels, not a still fallen or still disgraced angel, but a forgiven one and an emanation of God himself. They also hold that the source of evil is in the heart and spirit of humans themselves, not in Tawûsê Melek. Yazidis believe that good and evil both exist in the mind and spirit of human beings. It depends on the humans, themselves, as to which they choose. In this process, their devotion to Tawûsê Melek is essential, since it was he who was given the same choice between good and evil by God, and chose the good.
Read more at the link.

http://www.yeziditruth.org/the_peacock_angel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazidis
The Yazidis (also Yezidi, Êzidî, Yazdani) (/jəz'i:di:z/ ( listen) yah-ZEE-dees) are a Kurdish ethno-religious community whose syncretic but ancient religion Yazidism (a kind of Yazdânism) is linked to Zoroastrianism and ancient Mesopotamian religions. They live primarily in the Nineveh Province of northern Iraq, a region once part of ancient Assyria and capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.

The Yazidis are monotheists, believing in God as creator of the world, which he has placed under the care of seven "holy beings" or angels, the "chief" (archangel) of whom is Melek Taus, the "Peacock Angel." The Peacock Angel, as world-ruler, causes both good and bad to befall individuals, and this ambivalent character is reflected in myths of his own temporary fall from God's favor, before his remorseful tears extinguished the fires of his hellish prison and he was reconciled with God. This belief builds on Sufi mystical reflections on the angel Iblis, who proudly refused to violate monotheism by worshipping Adam and Eve despite God's express command to do so. Because of this connection to the Sufi Iblis tradition, some followers of other monotheistic religions of the region equate the Peacock Angel with their own unredeemed evil spirit Satan.

Why Does ISIS Consider the Yazidi ‘Devil Worshippers’?
by Jason Louv
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But who, exactly, are the Yazidis? For many, the news of their genocide is the first they’ve heard of the sect—but the group not only has one of the most elaborate cosmologies in world religion, they also may be one of the primary survivals of Gnostic ideas. Like shamanism, Gnosticism posits intermediary and in some cases malevolent creator deities in between God and humanity—in the case of the Yazidis, their worship of Melek Taus, a “peacock angel” sometimes referred to as Shaytan, the same name that the Qu’ran gives to Satan, accounts for their reputation as “devil worshippers” not only in the minds of mainstream Islam and extremist groups like ISIS, but also their strange status as inflated, romanticized heroes among Western Satanists and occultists.


Why Is the Islamic State Trying to Eradicate Iraq's Yazidi Minority?
Considered distinct from other Kurds and will not marry into other Kurdish groups.

Death of a religion: Isis and the Yazidi

The Devil worshippers of Iraq
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