The Role Of Violence In The Yazidi Community

The Islamic State, also known as ISIS of ISIL, has continued to arouse much untold terror throughout the Middle East region for more than four years, since 2011. The recent violence there underscores the seriousness of the issue and the urgency of those people living in the refugee camps. These refugees migrated to these camps to escape the militants’ attack on their homes and properties. The victims to much destruction and hardship, these Syrians will not be returning to their native homeland any time soon, and they can only hope that a genocidal tragedy like the Holocaust will never blossom in

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The ISIS Yazidi Women Abductions are a very important topic to address at this point in time. The Yazidi people have been persecuted based on the beliefs in a benevolent peacock angel (Melek Taus) which contains elements of Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam. ISIL views this peacock angel as a malevolent archangel Lucifer or more commonly known as Satan. Under the Islamic Law observed by ISIS, Yazidis are officially given an opportunity to convert to Sunni Islam or be put to death. This has led to the exile, abduction and unfortunate massacres of at least 5,000 Yazidi men, women, and children. This is a crucial issue to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland because

The second Part of Jonathan R. White’s ninth edition Terrorism and Homeland Security deals with the national and ethnic movements of international terrorism, their emergence as well as well as motifs. Ideological terrorist and ethnic separatists are hard to differentiate since they use the same procedures and tactics to get their demands. Although both fall under the definition of terrorism, there is a difference in the definition of their goals and demands. While separatists have defined, achievable goal, religious terrorists have a nihilistic ideology that are from a rational point of view not feasible. Therefore, it is impossible for satisfactorily negotiation

In current media there are constant stories of terror attacks including bombings, shootings, and sieges. Many of these assaults have been undertaken by the religious extremist group, ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), which have stemmed from the basic religious teachings of

When was the last time you sat down, evaluated your life and previous experiences, and thought about how fortunate you are to be alive and have all these people and possessions by your side? After reading the story, “Left to Tell,” by Immaculée Ilibagiza and “Girls of Jihad: Western Women and the Lure of ISI,” by Erick Stakelbeck, I understood the tragedy of genocide, as well as how other humans have little to no value of life. In this paper, I will provide a comparison and contrast of the genocide in Rwanda of the Tutsi by the Hutus, as well as the ongoing current genocide of the Christians, Shites, and Yazidi minorities by the different factions of ISIS, which consisted of Al- Nusra, Al- Qaeda, and Al Shebab. Genocide is also always combined

In 1969, my mother’s family fled Iraq for the United States in hopes of establishing a stable, opportunistic lifestyle. However, their refuge to the land of opportunity was not without adversity. Saddam Hussein’s rise to power was arguably the best and worst event that happened to the Chaldeans. Before Saddam, Iraq was led by nationalists who were not fond of Christians and their beliefs. However, Saddam’s prime minister, Tariq Aziz, was Chaldean and allowed Christians to practice their religion without feeling oppressed as a minority in a majority Muslim country. Still, the majority of their liberties were still restricted, and their obedience to Saddam and his Ba’ath Party regime was mandatory. In 1990, after ordering brutal chemical attacks

In this paper, I will analyze a film about ISIS and explain how all three theoretical perspectives: Structural functionalism, social conflict, and symbolic interactionism. This film analyzes paper will give the reader in-depth look at ISIS and its sociological concept. On August3, 2014, ISIS went to a village at 2:00 p.m and destroyed a lot of houses in the village. They massacre hundreds of Yazidi men. They took 3,000 women and children captive. Thousands of Yazidis, who survived the ISIS rampage fled to Sinjar Mountains. Khalil and other women explain their story of their experience with ISIS experience and what they believe.

On these days 3 years ago, IS' followers attacked the Yazidi's towns. They kidnapped, raped, and killed the innocent people who were living there. As well, they confiscated the houses of the Yazidis, which later became rubble.

The Yazidi were systematically targeted by ISIS in a violent campaign to “purify” the region from non-Islamic influences. The genocide sparked interest in multiple large countries while organizations spread awareness. The United States has been a large influence in the country of Iraq in hopes of protecting the Yazidi people from more harm until a plan is made to stop the attacks made by ISIS. During the presidency of Barack Obama, attacks were authorized to protect Yazidi people, Americans and Iraqi minorities. Despite the attack President Obama guaranteed that no troops would be sent for combat. On August 9th, the USA sent 9 airstrikes; with these airstrikes the US airdropped 3,800 gallons of water and 16,128 MREs (Washington Post). The

Genocide is the ultimate expression of hatred and contempt. There is only one place for it in the human rights discussion, which is at the very top. There is no crime more heinous than the extermination or attempt to exterminate a people because of their race, nationality, or religion. Currently, the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) is killing Yazidis (Yezidi), a Kurdish speaking religious minority. By the thousands in Syria and Iraq. The men are slaughtered and the women and children are kept as sexual slaves. The local government is a mess in both nations and some would say under siege themselves. The International Community has done little more than issue a UN report called “They Came to Destroy: ISIS Crimes against the Yazidis.” These people

Founded as the Islamic state of Iraq, ISIS has grown to power overtime as a nation through the use hegemonic masculinity. A splinter group of Al Qaeda, “ISIS aimed to unite one Islamic state under a dictator-like Muslim leader called a caliphate” (CNN). Through the use of social media and large global terrorist attacks, ISIS has gained power and new recruits. Over the past ten years the expansion of the nation-state has increased in size and power. The formation and development of the nation-state of ISIS is greatly influenced by hegemonic masculinity. The nation-state of ISIS if formed by social, political, and economic settings. These settings are shaped and affect by western hegemonic ideas of masculinity.

The initiation of the 1980s Turkish Martial Law gave rise and effect to the oppression and unchecked legislative actions of the Turkish government against a member of its minority population, Kurdish citizens. This paper provides a critical analysis of Turkish state political violence towards is Kurdish minority population post 1980. The analysis provides and examination of the “Turkifying” methods used to dissolve Kurdish identity and assimilate citizens of the state to Turkish identities. The assimilation methods and practices led to to human rights violations conducted by the Turkish government and overlooked by the international community. State induced violence topics of discussion include: Kurdish citizen abductions (state “disappearances”), state authorized torture, the examination of the parameters for Legal Decree 430, state detention facilities and response to Kurdish citizen resistance. The conclusive evidence provided in this analysis identifies the Turkish State agenda for state nationalism without respect to civil liberties or international human rights law post 1980.

The contrasts between the persecution of the Yazidi Christians in Syria by ISIS, and the systematic industrial massacre of 6 million Jews by the Nazi’s in the 1940’s, appear to be greater than the similarities by quite some margin. Indeed in all of the prescribed characteristics of Genocide, the systemic and deliberate destruction of the social and political basis of a group with the end goal of annihilating the group itself, (Lemkin, 1944), the difference in scale and scope is

The abuse and rape of thousands of women, mainly Yazidi and some Christians, has become an integral part of ISIS and its terrorism (Callimachi 2015; Malcolm 2015). The Yazidi people are a religious minority who live in the northern mountainous region of Iraq