Hindus want a Hindu State, in India and beyond, a Religious Nationalism based in Vedic principles. But to accomplish this, we need the idea of “Religious Nationalism” (necessarily non-Abrahamic) to become recognizable and popular on the world stage. India and Nepal have a long and complex history which is currently making the creation of a Vedic state a slow and arduous process, but not one we should ever give up on. However there is another “friendly” Religious Nationalism that is building in the world, one that could serve as a “practice run” for Hindus. But remarkably, Hindus are some of the worse perpetrators in diluting the dreams of a Yezidi Nation.
When the Islamic State rose in Iraq, and the Yezdi fled to the top of Mt. Sinjar, who were the first people to help and offer aid to the Yezidi in their time of need? Was it mainstream Hindutva organizations, was it common Hindu people, or was is a gang of self-serving charlatans who care nothing for Hindu Nationalism, Hinduism, Yezidi Nationalism or the Yezidi Religion? Unfortunately, Hindus allowed the later to take the reigns of the situation and steer both parties, Hindu and Yezidi, toward religious and national destruction.
But, we have the duo of Vrndavan Brannon Parker Acbsp (former ISKONITE) and Mark Amaru Pinkham a Templar (arm of the Catholic Church). Brannon Parker is the founder the the Yezidi Sanatan Dharma Society, an organization with the mission to acculturate both the Yezidi and the Hindus (here), negating the Hindus' and Yezidis' unique identities and grouping us together. The Yezidi Sanatan Dhamra Society references’s Mark Pinkham’s “Yezidi Truth” website on their facebook page. We have reported on Mark Pinkham and is “Peacock Christ Cult” which he is seeking to push on India by equating the Yezidi Melek Taus (who has Abrahamic undertones) with the Hindu god Murgan (here & here). The Yezidi Sanatan Dharma Society also promotes this Melek Taus/Murgan hybrid agenda, though they do not seem to openly promote the Christ link as much as Mr. Pinkham. It was Brannon Parker and Mark Pinkham who ran to the aid of the Yezidis, and manipulated mainstream Hindu organizations, and now we are paying the price.
And so what has been the price of allowing non-Hindu, non-nationalist forces to invade the space of helping the Yezidi? Rather than promoting a national homeland for the Yezidi, these groups focused on trying to convert them to their heretical sects, using them to import their bastardized Christ cults and “interfaith” into India. This has been disastrous for both the Yezidi and for Hindus. The Yezidi fled to Mt. Sinjar and not to Kurdistan because Kurdistan, while seemingly secular, is 70% Sunni Muslim and is racked with Islamist separatists who have no love for the Yezidi accept to convert or eliminate them. When the antics of Mark Pinkham and the Yezidi Sanatan Dharma Society arrived on Mt. Sinjar, they certainly handed out food and water to the beleaguered Yezidi, but they also preached a message of cultural and national destruction. Non of these groups are interested in promoting a Yezidi homeland, a land, which if properly armed and supplied, could act as a counterbalance to the Islamists of the regions, a land of people we can trust, unlike the majority Muslim Kurdistan.
Because these anti-Nationalist forces of acculturation thought nothing of truly supporting Yezidi nationalism, only using them for their own purposes, they did not arm the Yezidi nor steadily promote the cause for the Yezidi nation. Because of their purposefully weakening approach, the Yezidi were eventually lost to Kurdish Peshmerga forces and have been absorbed into Islamic Kurdistan where they have no hope of being offered their own homeland. So now because of Hindu ineptitude, we have temporarily lost a potential non-Muslim ally nation in the region which could have been a base of operations to defeat the powers of Islam. Instead we have sentenced the Yezidi to new hardships, fighting Islamization under the pseudo-secular/Islamist and unstable Kurdistan regime. This would not have happened if Hindus had not let Mark Pinkham confuse them with interfaith but instead fought for Yezidi nationalism where the Yezidi would be truly safe and where their religion could be truly protected from scam artists.
So what can we as Hindutvas do to help the Yezidi and ourselves? We need to step up to the plate and start helping pro-Yezidi organizations, organization which are for Yezidi culture and Yezidi nationalism, not for organizations which are seeking to distract the Yezidi from their nationalist dream or confuse their culture with destructive “interfaith”. If Hindus want their own Hindu Nation, it would be a good idea to support a pure Yezidi nation, it will show the world such an endeavor can work and is not something to fear. The Yezidi nation could be an island of military aid for Hindus in the midst of a sea of enemies, an island of people we can trust, something that cannot be said for Kurdistan. Also, by allowing the Yezidi to define themselves in their own terms, rather than pushing an interfaith agenda on them, we can learn to do the same.
The point is to stop the interfaith nonsense between Hindus and Yezidis and instead support a Yezidi homeland in Iraq (which is what they want) and simply be good friends, allowing both the Yezidi and Hindus to maintain their cultures and religions and to both have their own nationalism. The attempted absorption of the Yezidi into Hinduism is what stopped this from happening.
The point is to stop the interfaith nonsense between Hindus and Yezidis and instead support a Yezidi homeland in Iraq (which is what they want) and simply be good friends, allowing both the Yezidi and Hindus to maintain their cultures and religions and to both have their own nationalism. The attempted absorption of the Yezidi into Hinduism is what stopped this from happening.
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