Yazidi

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The Yazidis are a (probably) Kurdish group that for the most part kept to themselves, so little was known about them until they made headlines when DAESH started committing genocide against them. According to an estimate from 2007, there are about 500,000 Yazidis in the world, mostly found in Armenia, Georgia, Syria, Turkey and Russia.

The Yazidi religion is a blend of Islam, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and pre-monotheistic traditions. Yazidis believe in one central creator god, who in turn created seven angels to do the managing. They believe world history is cyclical, and God is reincarnated as one of three forms; a human-like form, a holy spirit, and something in between. Sound familiar?. The angels occasionally reincarnate as humans as well. "Good" and "evil" are internal to every human rather than external supernatural influences, and each person makes the decision as for which to choose.

They often baptize and circumcise their children, but it is not mandatory. Too much contact with outsiders is believed to cause impurity, to the point where unlike most religions, they do not accept converts. They do not accept any marriages outside caste.[1]

Due to a mistranslation, many local Muslims refer to them as devil-worshipers.

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