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Iraq
ISIL displaces thousands of Shabaks
2014-08-10
[Iran Press TV] Hundreds of thousands of members of the Shabak minority group
...a confusing group living mostly in a handful of villages that is mostly Shiite, but with a variant of Islam uniquely their own; mostly sort of Kurdish, but not quite; has its own language; appeared in Iraq in 1502, an oddly precise date; and nowadays are mostly poor farmers...
in northern Iraq have been forced out of their homes by ISIL Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
holy warriors, Press TV reports.

According to the report, members of the Shabak minority have arrived in Iraq's Erbil after walking for days from the district of Al-Hamdaniyah in Iraq's Northern Nineveh Province after ISIL took over their towns and forced them to flee.

A Shabak refugee told the Press TV correspondent that "ISIL is targeting Iraq, we want our politicians, Kurds and Iraqis to stop their bickering and look after the Iraqi people. We are suffering."

The newly arrived refuges are living in very bad conditions and disease has started to spread amongst them.

"We are calling on the Iraqi government and Kurdish regional authorities to help us return to our homes. This is not a good situation we are experiencing," said a Shabak refugee to the Press TV correspondent.

Earlier on Saturday, ISIL Takfiri Death Eaters executed 17 civilians from the Shabak minority in Iraq's northern province of Nineveh.

The head of the Shabak minority says the terrorist group has now seized around 60 villages north of the city of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
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Posted by:Fred

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