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Horrible Attack on Yezidi Community
Aug. 14th, 2007 07:54 pmhttp://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1288332007
My interest in the Yezidis, such as it it is, stems from their connection with Gnosticism (probably slight or imaginary) and with Sir Richard Francis Burton, whose wife's inepitude once nearly caused a worse massacre of them.
The NPR correspondent was so uncertian about the identity of the vicitms (she did not use their name) I couldn't tell if they were the Yezidis of Mandaeans untill I looked it up on the web. It reminds me of when I worked in a gov.docs depository years ago and shelved reports on the persecution of religious minorities in Iran and Iraq. The Parsis, Mandaeans, and Yezidi's were not mentioned, just Jews and Christians.
That article identifies the Yezidis as pre-Islamic. I read a mongraph on them years ago which, as I recall, suggested on the conrary that they were an offshoot of the Sufi movement, though probably there is much uncertainity about their origins.
My interest in the Yezidis, such as it it is, stems from their connection with Gnosticism (probably slight or imaginary) and with Sir Richard Francis Burton, whose wife's inepitude once nearly caused a worse massacre of them.
The NPR correspondent was so uncertian about the identity of the vicitms (she did not use their name) I couldn't tell if they were the Yezidis of Mandaeans untill I looked it up on the web. It reminds me of when I worked in a gov.docs depository years ago and shelved reports on the persecution of religious minorities in Iran and Iraq. The Parsis, Mandaeans, and Yezidi's were not mentioned, just Jews and Christians.
That article identifies the Yezidis as pre-Islamic. I read a mongraph on them years ago which, as I recall, suggested on the conrary that they were an offshoot of the Sufi movement, though probably there is much uncertainity about their origins.
