Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Islamic State of Iraq carries out revenge killing of Yezidis
Insurgency, Religion
(MEMRI) - Over the past week, Islamist websites have been reporting on the killing, apparently on April 14, 2007, of a young Yazidi Kurdish woman in Mosul. According to the reports, a crowd of Yazidis stoned her to death after she converted to Islam in order to marry a Muslim. Many writers on Islamist websites designated the woman a martyr and demanded that her death be avenged.
On April 24, 2007, Sheikh Abu Basir Al-Tartusi (one of the prominent thinkers of the Salafi school, to which Al-Qaeda adheres) posted a fatwa on his website saying: "Anyone who participated in the killing and stoning of this young woman will be killed, no matter how large [the number of people involved]... In [committing] this crime, the heretic Yazidi sect violated its commitment to the Muslims in Iraq, and the Muslims are therefore no longer obliged [to protect it]."
On April 26, 2007, the Al-Qaeda-founded Islamic State of Iraq issued a message stating that its men had killed 26 Yazidis in the region where the incident took place. The message explained that they were killed in revenge for the death of this woman and for the death of all Muslims killed by these "impure [Yazidis]," and as part of the Plan of Honor declared by ISI Commander Abu Omar Al-Baghdadi.
On April 24, 2007, Sheikh Abu Basir Al-Tartusi (one of the prominent thinkers of the Salafi school, to which Al-Qaeda adheres) posted a fatwa on his website saying: "Anyone who participated in the killing and stoning of this young woman will be killed, no matter how large [the number of people involved]... In [committing] this crime, the heretic Yazidi sect violated its commitment to the Muslims in Iraq, and the Muslims are therefore no longer obliged [to protect it]."
On April 26, 2007, the Al-Qaeda-founded Islamic State of Iraq issued a message stating that its men had killed 26 Yazidis in the region where the incident took place. The message explained that they were killed in revenge for the death of this woman and for the death of all Muslims killed by these "impure [Yazidis]," and as part of the Plan of Honor declared by ISI Commander Abu Omar Al-Baghdadi.
COMMENT: In addition to the above killings, the Haqq Agency reported that dozens of young Kurdish men descended on a hotel in Erbil in the Kurdish region Friday and attacked Yazidi workers who were staying at the hotel. The manager of the Merga Sur Hotel said that up to 50 men attempted to storm the hotel to attack Yazidis working in Erbil, and that a large number of Yazidis have slipped away back to their villages around Mosul fearing further attacks.COMMENT ENDS.
Labels: Islamic State of Iraq, Mosul, Sheikh Abu Basir Al-Tartusi, Yazidis
