Via The Telegraph:
Hundreds of terrified families belonging to the besieged Yazidi sect have reportedly been threatened with execution if they refuse to convert to Islam today, according to reports.
Yazidi refugees who are stranded on Mount Sinjar said they have received calls from family members trapped behind enemy lines in villages now controlled by Islamic State jihadis.
They have reportedly been handed a brutal ultimatum: convert to Islam – or die.
According to Matthew Barber, an academic who is currently in northern Iraq, the ultimatum has been
issued to families trapped in three villages held by the Islamic State.
“Hearing multiple accounts of a convert-or-die ultimatum,” he said on Twitter. “Yazidis may die in the morning if resisting conversion,” he added.
Mr Barber, a graduate student from the University of Chicago, said the threat was made to families in the villages of Hatimiya, Tel Kucho and Tel Qasab – all settlements which have fallen under the control of Islamic State fundamentalists following the group’s incursions into northern Iraq.
“Spoke to Yazidi man who received call from daughter in Hatimiya 1 hour ago,” he wrote. “She says IS has given them until morning to convert or be killed.”
Mr Barber, who appears to have spoken to refugees trapped on and around Mount Sinjar, also revealed further details about the advances made by the Islamic State.
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As of this writing, the United States has attacked 7 ISIS targets in Iraq, the attacks seen largely to be part of a defensive strategy purposed in protecting Yazidis and also defending American personnel in Erbil.
No one in their right mind believes this will be enough.
No one in their right mind.
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