July 16, 2005

• A fascinating people. More great Yezidi links here.
• Thanks for the additional links languagehat! I should probably also supplement this post further by adding "Selections from The Sacred Books and Traditions of the Yezidiz by Isya Joseph" Indeed, a very interesting people.
• Very interesting, maxpa - many bananas to you!
• )))!!!Just emerged from reading a few chapters of Peacock Angel -- this is a fascinating account of an odd and little-known people. Although their beliefs seem predominantly monotheistic, they also believe in reincarnation. There almost seems a bit of something for/from everyone among the Yezidi. Thank you, mazpa for these links. And languagehat, too. Great reading for the weekend.
• Ach! Sorry I mistyped your name, maxpa.
• I didn't expect to become so engrossed. Thanks.
• The moment a teenage girl was stoned to death for loving the wrong boy
• Miss Aswad, a member of a minority Kurdish religious group called Yezidi, was condemned to death as an "honour killing" by other men in her family and hardline religious leaders because of her relationship with the Sunni Muslim boy. . . . A large crowd watched as eight or nine men stormed the house and dragged Miss Aswad into the street. There they hurled stones at her for half an hour until she was dead. . . . It is feared her death has already triggered a retaliatory attack. Last week 23 Yezidi workmen were forced off a bus travelling from Mosulto Bashika by a group of Sunni gunmen and summarily shot dead. .
• At least 175 people have been killed in a series of suicide bomb attacks in northern Iraq, Iraq's military says. The blasts apparently targeted a Kurdish religious minority, the Yazidi sect, near Mosul. At least four blasts hit areas which house the community.
• Some news reports are now saying upwards of 500 fatalities. A day in the life... .
• Your pictures: Yazidi temple at Lalish, Iraq