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Subject: [GHHF] Urgent Petition to Save Yazidis from genocide - appeal to
Hindu Americans and all Humanity
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*GHHF Urgent Petition to Save Yazidis from genocide appeal to Hindu
Americans and all Humanity*
Dear Friends:
The customs and traditions of Yazidi Kurds in Iraq are similar
to Hindus. Their existence is at stake. ISIS is targeting them to
exterminate or enslave them.Some of them have escaped to Sinjair mountain
where they are trapped. Unless they are rescued very soon we may see Yazidi
genocide. May activists are trying to approach US President and Indian
Prime Minister to rescue them.
SIMILARITIES TO YAZIDIS AND HINDUS ARE GIVEN BELOW
Following Petition is being circulated for all residents in USA
to sign the petition so that the President Obama may take immediate steps
to rescue these trapped Yazidis.
* PLEASE SIGN to REACH 100,000*
*https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/save-thousands-yezidis-still-stranded-mt-shingal-iraq-renewed-offensive-isis/367Dj1P6
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It is a miracle that this community with so close Hindu leanings even
survives today in the middle of the Middle East. We have a moral
responsibility to speak and do whatever we can, big or small to save this
community from extinction.
If anyone would like to help, please reach out to Souptic (
[email protected]) or Brennon ([email protected]).
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD SO THAT WE CAN HIT 100,000 MARK SOON. Please
contact your lawmakers to urge them to take quick action.
Several activists both from Hindu and Yazidi communities are working hard
to raise awareness and bring both communities together with activities such
as Prayers at Hindu Temples around the world on a designated day for Yazidi
community, raise funds to provide desperately needed supplies in winter at
the camps in the desert, build bridges with Indian Government to provide
support, help them raise their voice in many forums (UN etc).
*PLEASE SIGN to REACH 100,000*
*https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/save-thousands-yezidis-still-stranded-mt-shingal-iraq-renewed-offensive-isis/367Dj1P6
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ISIS’ Attacks On Yazidis ‘May Amount To Attempted Genocide:' UN
By Avaneesh Pandey
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*http://www.ibtimes.com/isis-attacks-yazidis-may-amount-attempted-genocide-un-1709636*
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[image: yazidis]
Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing violence from
forces loyal to the Islamic State in Sinjar town, walk towards the Syrian
border, on the outskirts of Sinjar mountain, near the Syrian border town of
Elierbeh of Al-Hasakah Governorate in this August 11, 2014 Reuters/Rodi Said
Actions of militants of the Islamic State group in Iraq’s Sinjar
mountains “may amount to attempted genocide,” the United Nations said on
Tuesday, referring to the ISIS onslaught in the region that has so far led
to the deaths of thousands people belonging to the minority Yazidi
community, according to media reports
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“The evidence strongly indicates an attempt to commit genocide,” the U.N.
Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Ivan Simonovic reportedly said
in Geneva on Tuesday, after returning from a recent trip to Iraq. He added
that the only options being given to the Yazidis are “to convert or be
killed."
Simonovic also said that he had met at least 70 Yazidis, many of whom had
escaped sexual slavery, in Baghdad, and the Iraqi cities of Erbil and Dohuk
during his trip.
The Yazidis
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who have historically lived primarily around the Sinjar mountains in Iraq’s
northern Nineveh province, have been subject toseveral attacks
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from
the Islamic State group since June. The Sunni extremist group has branded
the Yazidis, whose religious practices resemble an ancient form of
Zoroastrianism, as “devil worshippers.”
In an article published in the ISIS propaganda magazine Dabiq earlier this
month, the group claimed that it has enslaved several Yazidi women and
children
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villages near Sinjar and sold them to its members fighting in the region.
Tens of thousands of Yazidis have been forced to flee the onslaught of the
Islamic State group and those remaining have been forced to convert to
Islam, according to media reports.
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Islamic State advances against Yazidis on Iraq's Sinjar mountain
BY ISABEL COLES AND SAIF SAMEER
ARBIL/BAGHDAD *Tue Oct 21, 2014 2:15pm EDT*
The attack is the latest threat to minority Yazidis, thousands of whom have
shot, buried alive or sold into slavery by IS militants, who regard them as
devil-worshippers.
(Reuters) - Islamic State militants advanced on Iraq's Sinjar mountain on
Tuesday, tightening a siege of thousands of stranded Yazidis, who called on
the United States and its allies to act to avert more bloodshed.
The IS militants originally attacked the area around Sinjar, in
northwestern Iraq, in August. A renewed assault began at dawn on Monday,
when militants driving Humvees and civilian vehicles attacked several
Yazidi residential compounds, forcing the Yazidi to retreat up the mountain.
"We are outnumbered and outgunned. We don't know how long we can hold them
off," said Ali Qasem, a Yazidi volunteer on the mountain.
Qasem said most families had already fled by the time IS arrived, but some
could not leave and remained trapped in residential complexes to the east
of the mountain.
U.S. President Barack Obama authorized air strikes in Iraq in August,
citing the duty to prevent an impending genocide of Yazidis at the hands of
IS militants after they overran a vast swathe of northern Iraq.
The air strikes helped Kurdish forces turn the tide against IS in the north
and relieved some of the pressure on Sinjar so that a corridor could be
opened to evacuate thousands of Yazidis from the mountain.
However, the mountain is still under threat, and the air strikes have not
prevented IS from gaining ground elsewhere in Iraq as well as neighbouring
Syria, where they have been attacking the predominantly Kurdish town of
Kobani, also known as Ayn al-Arab.
A Yazidi parliamentarian questioned why U.S. planes were striking IS
positions in Kobani but not Sinjar. He said the militants sought to control
the mountain to gain a strategic refuge near the border with Syria.
"Unfortunately, coalition planes are in the sky and can see the tanks, but
they are not striking them," said Yazidi parliamentarian Mahama Khalil,
also on the mountain. "Why do they defend Kobani and not Sinjar?"
Monday's attack was one of several along the front line between IS and
Kurdish forces, which runs more than 1,000 kilometres from the Syrian
border to Iraq's eastern Diyala province, near the frontier with Iran.
Militants disguised in Kurdish clothes tried to overrun the town of Qara
Tapa in Diyala on Monday and later drove a tanker rigged with explosives
into Kurdish lines in the Wana district, killing as many as 15 peshmerga,
according to two officials.
Wana is around 40 km northwest of Mosul, near Iraq's largest dam, which was
seized by IS in August before the U.S. air strikes drove the militants back
and Kurdish peshmerga retook it.
A senior civil servant in the office of the Kurdistan region's president
said recent IS attacks in the north aimed to divert the Kurds' attention to
create an opening for another offensive against the oil-rich city of Kirkuk
and Khanaqin town in Diyala.
"They have strategic interests there, too, but their grand strategy is
Kirkuk and other Kurdish areas in Diyala to encircle Baghdad," Ari Mamshae
said.
In a statement late on Monday, IS said it had carried out an attack on the
"secularist Yazidi militias" and destroyed one of their shrines.
"The advances are continuous and the armies that liberated Nineveh and Ayn
al-Arab are taking another step towards the Mosul dam, to which the
mujahideen are very close".
(This story has been refiled to correct the headline)
(Writing by Isabel Coles; Editing by Larry King)
*Yazidi and Hindu Similarity*
Yazidis kiss a peacock shaped lamp.
Hindus light a peacock shaped lamp.
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Yazidis temples have pyramid shaped gopura just like Hindu temples.
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Yazidis symbol is a wing spread peacock, just like Hindu god Shiva's son,
Subrahmanya's mount. The most important point to note is that peacock, the
national bird of India, is a native of south and south east Asia or Africa.
Not found in the area of Iraq or Syria at all.
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Yazidi mural on wall of their holy Lalish temple is unmistakably Hindu. You
can see saree, which is an unofficial national dress of India.
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Yazidi temple at Lalish has snake symbol at the entrance. You won't find
this among other tribes of Arabia or Mesopotamia. For Hindus, Subrahmanya
is the other avatara of snakes and worshiped very closely for all snake
related pujas like Naga Panchami.
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Yellow sun Yazidi symbol 21 rays.
Number 21 is sacred to Hindus (Ganesha). Offerings are in 21 count like
Modaka (sweet).
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Any Hindu with even basic understanding of aarti plate, will see Yazidis as
their own.
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Yazidis believe in continuous rebirth and reincarnation.
Same as Hindu Punar Janma concept.
The Yezidis came from India is a common story for all Yezidi families
Yazidis pray with folded hands. Hindus pray very similarly to their Gods
and Goddesses.
Yazidis pray at sun rise and sun set, just like Hindus. Both face the
rising or setting sun when praying to sun.
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Yazidis have a symbol similar to Bindi or Tilak during temple prayer, very
similar to Hindu forehead custom.
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For big celebrations, lighting lamp by females common to both Yazidis and
Hindus.
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Yazidis men worship Melek Taus by lighting fire in temples.
Hindus' do similar fire based worship to their Gods, with high regard for
agni the fire.
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*POSSIBLE ORIGIN OF THE NAME SINGHAL *
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singhal
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*Singhal* (Hindi
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सिंघल,
or Singal/Sinhal/Singla) is an Indian
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has origins in the Sanskrit
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word *simha*, meaning leonine
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