Yazidi Erotic

Yazidis are a Kurdish-speaking ethno-religious group concentrated historically in the Sinjar region of Nineveh Province, Iraq (the Iraqi Yazidi homeland — Sinjar is the most sacred Yazidi geographic location, with the Lalish temple complex being the central pilgrimage site) plus the Sheikhan and Bashiqa areas of Iraqi Kurdistan plus smaller communities in Syria and the broader cross-border zone. Pre-2014 Iraqi Yazidi population was approximately 400,000-500,000+. Following the August 2014 ISIS attack on Sinjar (which the UN, the US, the Council of Europe, and other bodies have characterized as genocide), the community was substantially displaced — estimated 5,000-10,000 Yazidi men were killed, approximately 7,000 women and girls were enslaved, and approximately 360,000+ Yazidis were displaced to Iraqi Kurdistan and the broader diaspora (Germany, the United States, Canada, Australia, Sweden — Germany's substantial post-2014 Yazidi refugee population is now ~150,000+). The Yazidi religion is a distinct ethno-religious tradition with elements of Zoroastrian, Islamic, Christian, Jewish, and older Mesopotamian religious sources. The Yazidi caste-system separates Sheikhs, Pirs, and Murids and historically prohibited intermarriage with non-Yazidis. The post-2017 ISIS defeat has produced partial return to Sinjar but the region remains substantially destroyed.