Six years after the genocide conducted by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) against the small Yazidi religious community, the Middle East is even less multi-cultural, multi-faith, and multi-ethnic than it was at the time of the rise of ISIS in 2012.
Most Yazidis speak Kurdish and follow an ancient faith. Their religion, based on oral tradition, mixes some Islamic beliefs with features of the ancient Persian religion Zoroastrianism and Mithraism – the Roman mystery worship of the god Mithras.
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