The perfect victims:

the yazidis under Daesh

Abstract

The Yazidis are a Kurdish religious minority that was not Islamized, making them different and distant from the rest of the Kurds. In this article we will work on the particularities of the Yazidi religion in relation to its beliefs and its social organization. We will pay special attention to those religious issues that were misunderstood by their Muslim and Christian neighbors, which made them particularly vulnerable to the attacks of Daesh from 2014.

Among their beliefs there is a misinterpretation of their main religious figure, the Peacock Angel (Malak Tawús) and his erroneous identification with the devil of the Abrahamic traditions. We will see how his caste system with the inbreeding practices that accompany it, favored the isolation of the group, which was used by Daesh to advance on their land, their assets and their women and children.