Solutions To The Yezidi Problem Pt. 4 - Hindus Must Correct Their Yezidi Blunder, Yezidi Ask For Help From Kurdistan

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It had been less than a week since the Kurdistan Peshmerga Forces “liberated” the Yezidi from the areas of Zammar and Mount Sinjar, and then the Yezidi were “safe”, or so we thought.  Now that the Yezidi are at least free from the extreme persecution of ISIS, it is time for us to regroup and look back on this whole series of events and realize what a fiasco it has been for Hindu geopolitical strategy and public relations. However, we also have a golden opportunity to correct our mistakes, the Yezidi need our help now more than ever to prevent their slow and subtle destruction within Kurdistan.

While it is certain that the Yezidi are better off with the Kurdistan forces, Hindus should think why the Yezidi did not go to Kurdistan in the first place.  Why did the Yezidi go up into an isolated mountain region rather than run toward the supposedly “secular” zone of Kurdistan?  In an earlier post (here) I detailed the plight of the Yezid under Kurdish forces.  Kurdistan is a majority Muslim region. While the Kurdistan government touts “secularism”, according to my Yezidi sources, Kurdish politicians have a history of sympathy for Islamic causes and a desire to Islamize the remaining Kurdish population. The issue with Kurdistan is that while the Kurds are ethnocentric and want to keep all supposedly “Kurdish” peoples within their domain, they also have an erratic policy of Islamizing non-Muslim “Kurds” or at least trying to destroy their non-Muslim identity.

My informants inside Yezidi organizations have relayed to me that Mirza Ismail, leading figure of the “Yezidi Human Rights Organization-International” and an American Yezidi, played an influential role in preventing Washington from arming the Kurdish Peshmerga Forces against ISIS.  Why would a Yezidi not want the Kurds to be able to fight ISIS when the Yezidi were trapped and being systematically annihilated by the group?  According to my sources Mr. Ismail did not trust the Kurdish forces to give the Yezid justice and feared that many of these arms would be added to ISIS stock piles by Kurds who sympathize with Islam, or would be used to Islamize the Yezidi once they were brought into Kurdistan. Indeed, as soon as the Yezidi were taken off Mt. Sinjar, Mizra Ismail began sending in reports of Kurdish treason, Peshmerga forces aiding ISIS rather than fighting them. 

So now the Yezidi are in Kurdistan and what is happening?  According to my Yezidi contacts the Yezidis have fallen into a tumultuous political soup.  It would seem that during the rescue there was internal fire on the Kurdish Peshmerga that was not coming from ISIS.  While it is certainly possible (and likely) that this fire came from pro-Islam/pro-ISIS elements within the Kurdish forces itself, some within Kurdistan took this opportunity to make tawdry accusation of treason against the Yezidi.  Some (likely Islamophile Kurds) began trying to stir up communal violence between the Peshmerga and the Yezidi. Rather than see the Yezidi and Kurdistan forces semi-unite, as of yet mysterious forces have begun to sew discontent between the groups, hoping to destabilize Kurdistan at the Yezidi’s expense.

However, things are worse than this.  According to my internal sources, the Kurdistan Forces have already begun a heavy campaign of “Kurdification” of the Yezidi, trying to culturally and socially absorb them into the Islamized Kurdish fold rather than allowing the Yezidi to nourish their own nation of Ezdistan.  While the Yezidi have escaped actual genocide, they now face cultural genocide within Kurdistan.  Prior to the liberation of Mt. Sinjar, Kurdistan forces began to infiltrate Yezidi organization and began an extended campaign of cultural annihilation and hijacking, trying to absorb the Yezidi into the general “Kurdistan” culture and make the fight for Kurdistan and the Yezidi one and the same.  This has led to infighting and fragmentation of the mission to help the Yezidi 

But now we must look at the Hindu campaign to help the Yezidi and why it was such a failure.  First, why on earth did we allow semi-Hindu groups like Mark Pinkham (here & here), Brannon Parker (here) and Ms. Al-Jilwah and Souptik Mukherjee (here) to speak on our behalf and spread false and malicious “Yezidis are Hindu” memes?  These people did little more than create an awkward and even inflaming situation with their scheme of cultural adulteration.  Both sides, Yezidi and Hindus did not trust this campaign since it was so eager to promote half-truths about both Yezidi and Hindu culture.  Many Hindus resented the fact that while their own people are being tortured and killed without any help or coverage, that all of a sudden they were supposed to help a supposedly far-flung sect they had never heard of, and there was also a conspiracy to use the Yezidi religion as a wedge for Christ in India. On the other hand, many Yezidi found these tactics to be a sordid campaign to convert  and assimilate them, predatory evangelists coming in, using the plight of the Yezidi to corrupt their religion.  This did nothing but breed resentment and suspicion on both sides.

However, worse than this is the fact that while Hindus and the government of India could have sent the Yezidi arms to fight for their own nation of Ezdistan, instead we sent charlatans sadus like Sri Sri Ravi Shankar seeking to gobble up the Yezidi into their corrupted and effete cults of inaction.  While the semi-Islamic Kurds went in as soldiers with guns gleaming to free the Yezidi people, the Hindus asked the Yezidi to sit on the floor and listen to how they are Hindus.  Let me ask you this, who do you think the Yezidi will respect more, the waffy wishy-washy wussy so-called Hindus of Art of Living, or the Kurdistan soldiers who liberated them with guns.  Hindus should have not allowed these scam artists to speak in our name. The Yezidi should have been early identified as an ally against Islam in both Iraq and Kurdistan without trying to assimilate them into Hinduism.  They should have been encouraged to fight to their own nation of Ezdistan, which is what they wanted anyway, and India should have provided them with the guns and ammunition to do it.  But now that hope is lost forever.

So what do the Hindus need to do now to rectify this situation, how can we right our wrongs and really help the Yezidi.  Now the Yezidi are in Kurdistan and are facing a brutal campaign of cultural assimilation.  My Yezidi friends are reporting back to me that the Kurds are insuring that the Yezidi have no hope of their own homeland or identity.  If nothing is done then these people could very well eventually be assimilated into Islamized Kurdistan, and what would have been a resistance army will become yet another infantry for the forces of Islamization.  Our Yezidi friends are asking Hindus to act quickly to maintain the continuity of Yezidi nationalism.  We must place pressure upon Kurdistan to make plans to eventually return the northwest Iraq region to the Yezidi and allow them their own nation of Ezdistan.  The Yezidi must be allowed to form their own infantries alongside the Peshmerga to fight ISIS, with the hope that they are fighting for their own homeland and not a future as Islamized Kurds.

Now that the Yezidi are free from imminent danger, it would seem that the “Hindu-Yezidi-Bhai-Bhai” feeling as begun to cool, but now the Yezidi need Hindus more than ever.  Hindus have a debt to pay, we put ourselves into this public affair in a half-assed and sloppy manner, allowing ourselves to be carried by forces who cared little for the future of either Hinduism or the Yezidi.  This has left Hindus looking like fools who cannot tell friend from foe.  But here we have a golden opportunity to regain our honor.  Soon the whole world will forget about the Yezidi as they disappear into the cavern of Kurdistan and their dreams of Ezdistan smashed upon the rocks.  But we as Hindus can remember them and keep them in our alliance.  We must keep Kurdistan on its toes and push them to truly liberate the Yezidi.  Here lies our redemption, not just for the Yezidi but also ourselves.