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| ISIS tragedy changed Yezidi society for better, argues ex-minister |
| 2016-06-20 |
| [RUDAW.NET] With the disaster and tragedy that befell the Yezidis under the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS) have come some positive aspects such as putting this community in touch with the outside world, giving its women a role in society and changing some of their social relations, argues Chnar Saad Abdullah, a sociologist and former Kurdish minister of Anfal and deaders affairs. "Before, Yezidi women were passive and hardly played a role. As many lost their husbands, brothers and fathers, they now have to look after themselves." Abdullah says of thousands of Yezidi women and girls who survived the ISIS onslaught and abductions. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 She says that in the past the community shunned or killed women for a simple love relationship outside the community, but the bitter reality of what happened under ISIS and the vast number of female victims has forced the community to accept them into society and not treat them differently. "Before, if a girl was in love with someone from outside the religion, she would be killed. But now, so many girls were raped that the society simply cannot refuse them all. They are now looked at as victims, and nobody tries to kill them. That is a major change, as the society tries to break with the values it had before." ...values... Sure is damn hard to root for anyone in that part of the world. |
| Posted by: JHH 2016-06-20 14:11 |