What is Yazidis?
The '''Yazidi''' (also '''Yezidi''') are an ancient [[Kurds|Kurdish]] ethnoreligious group with [[Iranian peoples]] roots. They are a separate branch of the [[Abrahamic religion]] tree. Their religion blends [[monotheism]] with [[Zoroastrianism]] and the religions of ancient [[Mesopotamia]]. Infant boy [[circumcision]] and [[Infant baptism]] are practised.<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://brill.com/view/journals/ic/20/3-4/article-p325_6.xml | doi=10.1163/1573384X-20160305 | title=Yezidi Circumcision and Blood-Brotherhood (Including the Circumcision of the Dead) | year=2016 | last1=Nicolaus | first1=Peter | journal=Iran and the Caucasus | volume=20 | issue=3–4 | pages=325–345 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ultimatehistoryproject.com/history-of-the-yezidi.html |title=History of the Yezidi - the Ultimate History Project |access-date=2022-07-17 |archive-date=2022-07-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220717114115/https://ultimatehistoryproject.com/history-of-the-yezidi.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Yazidis live in the Nineveh province of northern [[Iraq]], alongside the [[Christian]] [[Assyrian people|Assyrians]]. In [[Asia]], there are other Yazidi communities in [[Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic|Transcaucasia]], [[Armenia]], [[Turkey]], and [[Syria]]. Still, they have been fewer since the 1990s, with most of their members emigrating to [[Europe]], mainly [[Germany]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://journalstar.com/articles/2007/02/28/news/local/doc45e4c4211d311953438645.txt |title=Lincoln Iraqis call for protection from terrorism |last=Reeves |first=Bob |publisher=Lincoln Journal Star |date=2007-02-28 |accessdate=2007-02-28 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Shields|first=Sarah|date=August 2001|title=NELIDA FUCCARO, The Other Kurds: Yazidis in Colonial Iraq, Library of Modern Middle East Studies, vol. 14 (London: I. B. Tauris, 1999). Pp. 246. $55 cloth.|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-middle-east-studies/article/abs/nelida-fuccaro-the-other-kurds-ya