Definitions
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- noun member of a
Kurdish -speaking people of northernIraq , Armenia and Caucasus, whosereligion isYazidism
Etymologies
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Examples
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Minorities such as Coptic Christians in Egypt or the Chaldeans and Yazidi in Iraq are being punished or driven out.
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Dua Khalil, who was of the Yazidi faith, had been seen in the company of a Sunni Muslim, and possibly suspected of having married him or converted.
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Until the invasion of Iraq, for instance, I had never heard of the Yazidi.
Necropolis Walter Jon Williams 2009
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Dua Khalil, who was of the Yazidi faith, had been seen in the company of a Sunni Muslim, and possibly suspected of having married him or converted.
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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The Imam had requested the Yazidi forces water to quench the thirst of Ali Asghar, but Arab barbarism was very inhuman and base viciously anti -human instead of water the childs throat was pierced with a heavy duty arrow used for hunting wild life.
The Cradle of Ali Asghar « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008
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A victim of Yazidi genocide, and Yazid was a war criminal and so were those Muslims who stood silent and supported him ,fearing for their lives.
The Cradle of Ali Asghar « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008
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Not included here, however, is the massacre of 175 civilians in the Yazidi community in Iraq.
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For the Shias all road led towards Amin Imambada for the Juloos organized by the migrant Iranians , in the form of a passion play depicting scenes between Imam Hussain and Shimr the Commander of the Yazidi forces of the Ummayad Caliphate.
Ashura Amin Imam Bada 2008 « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008
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Mostly Sunni (there are Kurdish Shi'a, Alevi, Yazidi, Jews, Zoroastrians, Christians, etc), they are known to hold their Islam with a light touch.
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The Iraqi Yazidi minority was the target of the worst single terrorist attack since the U. S.-led invasion, when four suicide truck bombings killed more than 500 in August.
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