Yazidis Quotes

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Prayer is meant to be a personal expression, not a chore or an empty ritual. You can pray silently by yourself or out loud, and you can pray alone or in a group, as long as everyone in that group is also Yazidi.
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Nadia Murad (The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State)
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Let’s stand against the killing of innocent civilians. It is time to make the future better than today. Together we can bring peace and unity to our communities.
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Widad Akreyi
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I will follow anyone... And remind everyone... Of enslaved Yazidi women... Raped... And forced... To donate blood to ISIS men...
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Widad Akreyi
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We had no ambition for more land or power, and nothing in the religion commands us to conquer non-Yazidis and spread our faith.
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Nadia Murad (The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State)
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I will follow anyone And ask everyone To stand together as one nation Against the killing of innocent citizens
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Widad Akreyi
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Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. May ALL victims rest in peace!
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Widad Akreyi
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SHOW THE WORLD YOUR STRONG COMPASSION! GIVE YOUR VOICE TO VOICELESS KOBANE KIDS!
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Widad Akreyi
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You have a chance to save lives! If you don't take it, you may regret it!
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Widad Akreyi
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I Will Follow Anyone And Ask Everyone To Stand Together As One Civilisation Against Terrorism
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Widad Akreyi
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Our values were under attacks, in Paris Tell them: We stand UNITED We'll defend our values We'll NOT be DIVIDED
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Widad Akreyi
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The free world cannot afford to accept any form of extremism, whether it is fascism, racism or religious extremism.
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Widad Akreyi
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We Have a Chance To Save Lives If We Don't Take It We May Regret It Like We Did With Alan Kurdi
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Widad Akreyi
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The Purpose of life is to thrive and save lives with passion! Save Yazidis today with love and compassion!
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Widad Akreyi
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I will follow anyone... And tell everyone... How grateful I am... To the Western nations.
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Widad Akreyi
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It is time to recognize the past and ongoing genocides to prevent new ones. Together we can build a better world!
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Widad Akreyi
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I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE AND THANK EVERYONE WHO TRIES TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF VULNERABLE CIVILIANS
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Widad Akreyi
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I Will Follow Anyone And Tell Everyone How They Abduct... And Torture Children In the Name Of Religion
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Widad Akreyi
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I will follow anyone... and invite everyone... too unite and defend the freedom of expression.
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Widad Akreyi
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I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE AND TELL EVERYONE ABOUT... THE REAL WAR ON WOMEN ON YAZIDI GIRLS & WOMEN
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Widad Akreyi
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I will follow anyone and tell everyone my message because it is urgent: Please humanity Protect Yazidis.
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Widad Akreyi
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Generalization is the biggest challenge that must be dealt with if we are to create spaces for constructive dialogue where muslims feel they are welcomed. This is equally true with regards to Westerners! Not all Westerners are against muslims, and not all terrorist attacks in the West are linked to Islamic jihadists.
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Widad Akreyi
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Since leaving Kocho, I had begged for death, I had willed Salman to kill me or asked God to let me die or refused to eat or drink in the hopes I would fade away. I had thought many times that the man who raped and beat me would kill me. But death had never come. In the checkpoint bathroom, I began to cry. For the first time since I left Kocho, I thought I actually might die. And I also knew for sure that I didn't want to.
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Nadia Murad (The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State)
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The only thing that separates the Jews of Israel from the fate of the Christians, Yazidis, and other religious minorities in Iraq and Syria is the might of the Israel Defense Forces. Faced with murderous terrorists, Israelis are able to respond with F-16s, Merkava tanks, and one of the best-trained armies in the world.
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Jay Sekulow (Rise of ISIS: A Threat We Can't Ignore)
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We are determined to answer evil with GOOD, slavery with FREEDOM, rape with hope! We are against slavery, rape, beheading, torture, violations of human rights, corruption and misuse of religion!
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Widad Akreyi
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ISIS BEHEADS CIVILIANS WHILE WORLD KEEPS FORGETTING WHAT VICTIMS' SOULS R BEGGING: HUMANITY SAVE KOBANE
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Widad Akreyi
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No ONE MENTIONS YOUR TEARS, SADNESS OR SLOW DEATH! BUT, WE FEEL YOUR FALLEN TEARS, YOUR BEHEADED BODIES, YOUR RAPED DIGNITY!
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Widad Akreyi
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The use of rape and enslavement as weapons of war MUST END!
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Widad Akreyi
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I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE AND TELL EVERYONE HOW THEY SPONSOR... THE KILLING OF THE YAZIDI NATION
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Widad Akreyi
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YAZIDIS AND CHRISTIANS WANT TO BE FREE OF NIGHT MIST AND BEHEADING DRIFT!
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Widad Akreyi
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I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE AND REMIND EVERYONE OF THE SUFFERING... OF THE ENSLAVED... YAZIDI WOMEN
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Widad Akreyi
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I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND REMIND EVERYONE... OF THE RAPE OF THE YAZIDI WOMEN
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Widad Akreyi
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I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND REMIND EVERYONE... OF THE FATE OF NEGLECTED YAZIDI CHILDREN
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Widad Akreyi
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SHOW THE WORLD YOUR STRONG COMPASSION: GIVE YOUR VOICE TO VOICELESS YAZIDI GIRLS!
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Widad Akreyi
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I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND REMIND EVERYONE... OF THE FATE... OF THE ENSLAVED... YAZIDI WOMEN
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Widad Akreyi
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Let the world feel your compassion: Help save kidnapped Yazidi females!
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Widad Akreyi
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I will follow anyone... and remind everyone... of the pain of the Yazidi women
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Widad Akreyi
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I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND BEG EVERYONE... TO BE A HERO... AND SAVE THE YAZIDI NATION
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Widad Akreyi
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The story we use to explain the core of our faith and everything we think of as good about the Yazidi religion is the same story others use to justify genocide against us.
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Nadia Murad (The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State)
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WHILE THE WORLD'S ASLEEP, ANGELS REFUSE TO SLEEP!
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Widad Akreyi
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THE SADNESS IN OUR HEARTS SEEMS ENDLESS
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Widad Akreyi
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UPON FACES ANGEL TEARS... YOUR VOICES IN OUR EARS
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Widad Akreyi
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I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND THANK EVERYONE... WHO TRIES... TO BRING SMILE BACK... TO THIS WOMAN
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Widad Akreyi
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I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND DEMONSTRATE TO EVERYONE... THAT THEIR FEAR IS GENUINE
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Widad Akreyi
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Compassion is a reflection of our connectedness. Your voice is need and much appreciated!
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Widad Akreyi
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I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND TELL EVERYONE... THAT THIS IS HAPPENING... IN THE CENTURY TWENTY-ONE
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Widad Akreyi
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I will follow anyone... and remind everyone... that their fear is genuine.
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Widad Akreyi
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I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND BEG EVERYONE... TO HELP RESCUE ALL IMPRISONED WOMEN.
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Widad Akreyi
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IT’S ALL CLEAR ISIS INVADES YOUR SPHERE YET NO ONE IMAGINES YOUR FEAR BUT DON'T WORRY TAUSSI MELEK IS HERE RESTORING LIVES NEAR
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Widad Akreyi
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WE KNOW YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY DARKNESS... IN THE TERROR FOREST! WE HOPE FOR MOONLIGHT!
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Widad Akreyi
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If we compare the 2014-genocide to the Armenian genocide and the Anfal genocide, we will find that, whether religious or secular, the perpetrators of the three genocides have used a specific religion to legalize their crimes. Not even children were spared.
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Widad Akreyi
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Now, as to the view that this is how anyone who had suffered imperialism or colonialism would behave: no, it’s not. Entire countries such as India, were colonized. There’s a difference between what’s happening in Iraq with the so-called Islamic State’s attempted genocide of the Yazidi community and how Gandhi acted in India. Let’s take Iraq as a case study and think about it: What does killing the Yazidi population on Mount Sinjar have to do with US foreign policy? What does enforcing headscarves (tents, in fact) on women in Waziristan and Afghanistan, and lashing them, forcing men to grow beards under threat of a whip, chopping off hands, and so forth, have to do with US foreign policy?
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Sam Harris (Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue)
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Dr Silay said the poor girl should have a Sunni Muslim funeral, but he thinks the family were probably secretly Yazidi, because she said you were her Peacock Angel,” Joannes said. β€œShe said crazy things like that,” I said. β€œWhat’s the difference between Muslim and Yazidi?” β€œWell, Muslims here refer to Yazidi as devil worshippers, but that’s too simple, a lot of cultural baggage, as always,” Joannes said. β€œAnd I’m no expert, but I think their God is much like anyone else’s. They don’t believe in an evil entity like Satan, they believe all evil is man made, but we have the choice to be good or evil. The Peacock Angel embodies all that is good, a representation of God, so she must have really respected you. And I think they have some form of reincarnation too, not sure about that. I’m sorry for my hostility towards you last night, you didn’t deserve it,” Joannes said.
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Gerard Cappa (Blood from a Shadow (Con Maknazpy, #1))
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Not even children were spared. To see history repeating itself, and the calamities of the past unfolding again, spelled out in the eyes of the victims and survivors, was unbearable. To witness rape and slavery practiced and legitimized, to witness it happen in the 21st century was hideous. Girls as young as 8-9 years old and women all ages were being brutally violated and sold, sometimes for $10. My heart sank with their screams, and we had to do something to help them.
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Widad Akreyi
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Terrorists from the Islamic State (formerly ISIS) have killed at least 500 members of Iraq's Yazidi ethnic minority during their offensive in the north, Iraq's human rights minister told Reuters on Sunday.
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Anonymous
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Let’s begin with ISIS. As of the writing of this book, the terrorists of ISISβ€”once known as al-Qaeda in Iraqβ€”control territory as large as an entire nation-state, with much of northern Syria and northern Iraq under its control. It is threatening Baghdad and the Kurdish capital city of Erbil, and it recently controlled (and still threatens) a poorly constructed dam near Mosul (one of Iraq’s largest cities). If that dam is blown, it would drown an entire region in a wall of water, killing hundreds of thousands. ISIS is brutal beyond imagination to anyoneβ€”Christian, Jew, Yazidi, and even Shiite Muslimβ€”who is not aligned with its jihadist form of Sunni Islam. In Syria, ISIS has slaughtered Shiites, Christians, and Alawites (an obscure Islamic sect). In Iraq, it has done the same, giving Christians in conquered territories a chilling ultimatum: β€œConvert, leave your homes, or die.
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Jay Sekulow (Rise of ISIS: A Threat We Can't Ignore)
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Activists from Baghdad to Berkeley to Brandeis are crying for sanctions and boycotts, effectively trying to stop Israel from helping the world and her neighbors advance in technology, healthcare, and agriculture, to stop Israelis from hiring Palestinians in Rawabi, and from helping traumatized Yazidi women.
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Noa Tishby (Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth)
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In ISIS, Abdelaziz discovered new things about himself. He learned that he was violent, brutal, and determined. He beheaded enemies. He kept a Yazidi girl in his house as aΒ sabiyya,
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Michael Weiss (ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror)
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Just imagine for a moment you are a Yazidi sex slave, spending an eternity of days being beaten and mounted by some filthy jihadi old man with cigarette-stained teeth and the blood of Christian children still splattered on his shirt. Then, U.S. Army Rangers storm the room, sending the rapist to the Hell he was long overdue for. They wrap you in a blanket and take care of you. Feed you. Mend your wounds, and do their best to salve your emotional and spiritual scars. They send you to America as a refugee. Blessed to live in a free and prosperous nation, you decide to take advantage of all America has to offer. You go to a good college on a scholarship and while there some woman authority figure with open-toed shoes and a closed mind tells you that you have it no better here than you did in that tent back in the desert. This talk isn’t just dumb. It’s not just dangerous. It is, quite simply, evil. [Responding to article by Amy Lauricella, staff attorney at Global Rights for Women, asserting that "While ISIS endorses rape, American college administrations similarly facilitate the rape of women on campuses"]
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Jonah Goldberg