Persecution of Yazidis
Overview of hostility, discrimination, and persecution against the Yazidi people / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The persecution of Yazidis has been ongoing since at least 637 CE.[1][2][3][4] Yazidis are an endogamous and mostly Kurmanji-speaking[5] minority, indigenous to Kurdistan.[6] The Yazidi religion is regarded as "devil-worship" by Muslims and Islamists.[1][2][7][8] Yazidis have been persecuted by the surrounding Muslims since the medieval ages, most notably by Safavids[citation needed], Ottomans, neighbouring Muslim Arab and Kurdish tribes and principalities.[1][3][9][10] After the 2014 Sinjar massacre of thousands of Yazidis by ISIL, which started the ethnic, cultural, and religious genocide of the Yazidis in Iraq,[1] Yazidis still face discrimination from the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government.