ISIS Violations Against the Yazidi Community: An Analytical Reading of Extremist Ideology and the Vision of the Other

Jassim, Emad Moayad; Jasim, Abeer Rabah

doi:10.63677/jqlap.2025.187074

ISIS Violations Against the Yazidi Community: An Analytical Reading of Extremist Ideology and the Vision of the Other

https://doi.org/10.63677/jqlap.2025.187074

Volume 16, Issue: 1 part 2 / 2 - Serial Number 2
Spring 2025

Pages 963-988

AL-Qadisiya Journal For Law and Political Sciences

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Emad Moayad Jassim ¹

Abeer Rabah Jasim ²

¹ University of Diyala

² College of law and Political Science / University of Diyala

Abstract

The campaigns of genocide and enslavement that the Yazidi community was subjected to by ISIS elements, which began in 2014, revived the same old questions about the reasons that lead the ruling community, whether embodied in a state or an extremist movement, to consider the existence of the minority a threat to its entity or ideology, which prompts it to adopt a policy of exclusion and cleansing. The criterion of difference that structurally establishes the existence of the minority and creates its distinction from the rest of the members of the broader society, is almost the same as the incentive for the policy of genocide, considering that this difference is an issue that the ideology of the other party does not tolerate. This is what applied to the Yazidi community, which faced the ideology of a fundamentalist movement that considered it not only different but also the opposite of its religious beliefs.

Keywords

ISIS

Yazidi community

extremist ideology