The Yazidis getting a taste of the Islamic State’s interfaith outreach.
Via Fox News:
Thousands of people from Iraq’s minority Yazidi community have been killed while others have fled their homes following the takeover of two northern towns by Sunni militants, a spokesman for the community says.
As Kurdish fighters are struggling to hold back the onslaught of the Islamic State militants, some 40,000 Yazidis fled the northern towns of Sinjar and Zumar, Jawhar Ali Begg told The Associated Press.
The militant group gave the Yazidis, who follow an ancient Iranian religion, an ultimatum: convert to Islam, pay a tax or face death, Begg added. The Islamic State is trying to expand the territory of their self-styled caliphate.
“Thousands of Yazidi people have been killed,” he said.