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Islamic State threatens to “pursue and kill” members of Kaka’i religious minority if they don’t convert to Islam

Mar 21, 2016 9:43 am By Robert Spencer

“The Kaka’is had earlier suffered several massacres at the hands of jihadis in Iraq.” Why do jihadis persistently miss the peaceful, tolerant teachings of Islam that are so blazingly obvious to people such as John Kerry, David Cameron, Pope Francis and other learned Islamic scholars? Will any of them or the other learned Islamic scholars who assure us that Islam is peaceful at its core kindly send a delegation to Raqqa to explain to the caliph al-Baghdadi how he is misunderstanding Islam? No? Why not?

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“ISIS threatens to attack Kaka’i religious minority in Iraq,” ARA News, March 20, 2016 (thanks to Jerk Chicken):

ERBIL – Extremists of the Islamic State group (ISIS) have vowed to “pursue and kill” members of the Kaka’i religious group in northern Iraq, considering them “infidels who must be eliminated”, local sources reported.

The Kaka’i Kurds are one of several multi-ethnic groups who are part of the Yarsan or Ahl el-Haqq (people of truth), a religion founded by Sultan Sahak in the late 14th century in western Iran. Some Yarsanis in Iraq are called the Kaka’is.

The majority of the Kaka’is live in northern Mosul and other areas in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, where they face eminent threat of annihilation, similar to the Yezidi Kurds, at the hands of jihadi groups.

“ISIS militants have circulated statements and messages in the areas where the Kaka’is reside, threatening to kill them if hey [sic] did’t [sic] convert to Islam,” a local right’s activist told ARA News, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Speaking to ARA News in Erbil, Kaka’i media activist Zaradasht al-Kaki said their community is taking ISIS threats “very seriously”, pointing out that “the Kaka’is had earlier suffered several massacres at the hands of jihadis in Iraq”.

“We appeal to the Kurdish Peshmerga forces to protect the Kaka’is from these barbaric groups,” he said, warning of massacres smiliar [sic] to those suffered by the Yezidi Kurds.

The Yarsan adherents, estimated with 500,000 to 1,000,000, are primarily found in western Iran and eastern Iraq, they are mostly from the ethnic Goran Kurds, but include other smaller groups of Persian, Lori, Azeri and Arab adherents. The Yarsanis are also found in some rural communities in Turkey’s southeast where Kurds constitute a majority.

“We are a peaceful minority like the Yezidis, Christians, and other religious groups. Daesh calls us ‘apostates’ and must convert to Islam. We cannot live with these barbaric groups, who killed hundreds of Yezidis and displaced thousands more,” member of the Kaka’i community Dilo Cetin told ARA News, using an acronym for ISIS….

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Islamic supremacism, Jihadist intimidation and thuggery Tagged With: Ahl el-Haqq, Kaka'i, Yarsan


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  1. Angemon says

    Mar 21, 2016 at 10:20 am

    “We are a peaceful minority like the Yezidis, Christians, and other religious groups.

    How’s that working out for you?

  2. Mike says

    Mar 21, 2016 at 3:02 pm

    I have a cunning plan: David Cameron and so on should convert to Islam and become leaders of the new peaceful variety… until they get their throats slit.

    I’m less cynical than most of you: I think that, like most religious texts, there’s room for lots of reinterpretation in the Qoran, and so on. With a massive cataclysmic event in the Islamic world, it’s possible that these ways of viewing the world could come to the forefront. But it’s going to take a lot more than pronouncements by David Cameron or Barak Obama. It’ll probably take nuclear bombs to make that kind of “truth” come out of the Qoran and become the dominant variety.

    I’ll bet that these poor people regret the relative stability of the days of Saddam. Saddam was evil.
    Anything that makes you regret Saddam is more evil. Nuff said.

  3. Michael Johnson says

    Mar 21, 2016 at 3:17 pm

    That’s true they must defend themselves or they will face annihilation

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