Just who are the Kurds and what are they fighting for?

They have several different types of worship. The central figure is an angel.

An angel at odds with God.

Among the Kurds are the Yezidi. The core religion is worshipped by about 200,000 of them worldwide. They mainly live in North Iraq. Other clerics are scattered throughout Turkey, Armenia, Yemen and Iran. About thirty thousand of them went to Germany for work and because the Turks were killing them.

The Kurds had it bad all around – then along came Bush. If they could give George Bush what he wanted – Iraq – then he would give them what they wanted – money and power.

The Yezidi link four beings with the ‘elements’, water, fire, air and earth.

It is forbidden to beat or spit on he earth, to spit into water or fire, to drink water in such a way that it makes a gurgling noise, or to throw impure matter into fire (Kreyenbroek 148).

Some foods are forbidden, like lettuce; fish; pumpkin; broad beans; cabbage; bamiyye and the meat of gazelle (Sever 94).

They believe that they were created before Eve from the body of Adam.

The angel they worship is the Peacock Angel. That angel said, they believe, ‘Look at the children of Adam. They will become numerous on the earth.’

That angel then went to Adam and offered him the knowledge of the planting of wheat.

We call the dark angel that George Bush’s Kurdish friends worship – Satan.