Who, What, Why: Who are the Yazidis?The Yazidis' holiest temple is in Lalesh, situated in a valley 430kms northwest of Baghdad The ongoing persecution in their heartland of the Mt Sinjar region west of Mosul is based on a misunderstanding of their name. Sunni extremists, such as IS, believe it derives from Yazid ibn Muawiya (647-683), the deeply unpopular second caliph of the Umayyad dynasty. Modern research, however, has clarified
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