ALJAZAM Inside Story December 23, 2014
There are religious and ethnic minorities scattered across the middle east. In mean cases members of communities thousands of years old. Christians in lebanon, syria and egypt, jews, samaritans and the yazidis an off shoot from the ancient religion. As isil tightens its grip it brings a particular level of abuse against those who proclaim against all odds of their airport faith. This is the scene in early august. Thousands of yazidi trapped on mount sinjar, surrounded by isil fighters. The seen, which raised fears of genocide was one of the reasons president barack obama launched airstrikes ag...