November 30, 2003
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Hell's angels
29 November 2003
The Yezidi are Iraq's most persecuted minority. The overthrow of the Saddam Hussein regime has opened them to the outside world ...
A people who live in the remote mountains at the borders of Turkey, the Yezidi pray to the fallen angel Christians and Muslims call Satan, because they believe he was forgiven by God and reinstated in heaven.
They do not call this angel Satan but Malek Tawwus, or the Peacock King, and they pray to him. As a result, the followers of other religions have condemned them as Devil-worshippers.
The Yezidi never wear the colour blue. They are not allowed to eat lettuce. They believe in reincarnation, which they call the soul "changing its clothes". They have two holy books, but they believe the only copy of one of them, the Black Book, was stolen years ago and taken to Britain, where, they say, it is kept in a museum.
"We have faced 72 genocides. I fear we may face a 73rd."
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