This people's historical religion involves the worship of Malak Taus, a world-creating fallen peacock angel whose worship has stereotyped its believers as devil worshippers, a
This people's historical religion involves the worship of Malak Taus, a world-creating fallen peacock angel whose worship has stereotyped its believers as devil worshippers, a religion which disallows the eating of lettuce or butter beans. That religion, Yazidism, is now a minority faith among these people, and their ancient language of Pahlawani has been overtaken by the modern Kurmanji. The most famous persecutions of them occurred at Dersim in the 1930's, and at Halabja, where a chemical attack was launched on them by Saddam Hussein's régime. FTP, name this oppressed ethnic group of northern Iraq and southeast Turkey.
This people's historical religion involves the worship of Malak Taus, a world-creating fallen peacock angel whose worship has stereotyped its believers as devil worshippers, a religion which disallows the eating of lettuce or butter beans.