Genocide against yazidis

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The terrorist militia "Islamic State" is currently committing genocide against the Yazidi ethnic group, according to a UN commission. Members of the ethno-religious minority have fallen victim to unimaginable atrocities in Iraq and Syria, according to the U.N.

The U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria said Thursday in Geneva that the crimes were continuing. Commission demanded that perpetrators be held accountable for their crimes.

"Islamic State" intends to annihilate the Yazidis, experts declared. List of war crimes and crimes against humanity ranges from torture and human trafficking to sexual slavery and indiscriminate killings, according to commission. In addition, the "Islamic State" is forcing Yazidis to convert to Islam. The crimes reportedly began in 2014.

Thousands of boys and men missing

The Sunni terrorists had torn apart Yazidi families and abducted Yazidi children, it added. Kidnapped boys, he said, have been indoctrinated and then used as warriors for jihad. Thousands of Yezidi men and boys would go missing. He said the "Islamic State" has estimated that more than 3.200 children and women in his grip, most of them in areas controlled by terrorists in Syria.

The commission of inquiry, chaired by Brazilian diplomat Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, demanded that the U.N. Security Council refer the case of crimes against the Yazidis to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The commission cites the establishment of an ad hoc tribunal to atone for criminal acts as another legal option.

Interviews with survivors

Commission bases its report on interviews with 45 survivors, religious leaders, lawyers and medical professionals. Investigators work on behalf of the UN Human Rights Council. The "Islamic State" conquered large parts of the conflict countries Iraq and Syria and established a reign of terror there.

Nowadays one does without the cell phone, alcohol or chocolate in the Lent time. In former times it was different. Customs expert Manfred Becker-Huberti looks back into the past and explains how people used to fast in the past.

Interviewer: The tradition of fasting existed before Jesus?

Professor Dr. Manfred Becker-Huberti (theologian and expert on customs): Yes, you can see it in Jesus himself. He quotes in some place that one should not look as gloomy as the Pharisees who fast and make it out to be so by looking especially depressed.

So fasting should be done with joy and in silence.

Interviewer: Minus Sunday, we fast for 40 days, just as Jesus is said to have fasted in the desert after his baptism. Why the number 40?

Becker-Huberti: The number 40 is a symbolic number indicating vastness and greatness. I remember that the Jews wandered in the desert for 40 years. We encounter the number 40 continuously in the Old and New Testaments. For example, it rained 40 days when the ark was built. There are 40 chapters in the second book of Moses. According to Leviticus, if a woman gives birth to a boy, she is considered unclean for 40 days, and so on.

The number 40 in our context comes up with Jesus' fasting before his public ministry. Fasting for 40 days. This 40 is symbolism for this Lenten season. And not only for the Easter fast, but originally also for the Christmas fasting period. Because Advent was originally also once a 40-day period of fasting.

Interviewer: Today there are car fasts, cell phone fasts and internet fasts. What did people fast in earlier times?

Becker-Huberti: The most important thing in fasting was abstinence from food and drink. Then of course public merrymaking such as dancing or concerts, which were omitted. There were also times when abstinence from sexual intercourse played an essential role, of course also for married couples, who then restrained themselves – at least, however, during Holy Week.

Interviewer: What was with alcohol and chocolate? Also a fasting idea of modern times?

Becker-Huberti: This is an idea of modern times. You have to imagine that in ancient times – even in the Middle Ages and partly into the18. In the sixteenth century – there was nothing but thin beer to drink. Normal water did not work, because one did not know that one had to boil it. It was dangerous to health.

Juices did not go, because one did not have enough juices, and/or could not make them durable. So you could only drink thin beer or dilute wine. Total abstinence from alcohol did not work.

There was rather the opposite: strong beer was produced, for example in monasteries. If you ate less, you had to get the calories you needed to maintain your job from the stronger brewed beer.

Interviewer: It is up to each person to decide whether or not to take stimulants during Lent. No one is paying attention from the outside. How it used to be? There will not have been a fasting police force, will there??

Becker-Huberti: A fasting police certainly not. But there was some kind of social control. In a village, of course, everyone knew from the neighbor how he was doing with these things – especially since they also dealt with each other, worked or looked into each other's kitchens.

Accordingly, it was quite regimented. Incidentally, the confessor saw to that. The asked namely also whether someone kept to the fasting rules or not and admonished accordingly.

The interview was conducted by Tobias Fricke.

Labeling obligation for smoker is overwhelmed!

To forbid! To forbid! To forbid! Yes, we all have been banned for banned for weeks. Of course we are for an immediate ban on gluing bulbs and heatable toilet goggles. A Dieter-Bohlen ban was also good for us. And that advancing to supermarket funds prohibited, goes by itself.

But sometimes the bans just do not go far enough. Example: Smoking. So instead, as planned in Lower Saxony, to mark smoker pubs with a R like smoking, you would rather mark the smokers with it. This could be so embarrassing for them in the health-correct non-smoking public, that they finally stop. Or one follows the bold, but from absolutely sophisticated reasons unfortunately again stopped plan of a vocational school for nurse in the Belgian Oostende. There should be the Schuler in the breaks smoking, but only if you wear a recording with a smoking in your clothes. And they have deserved, the other with their dangerous smoking, such mails anyway already long.

The smoking ban on driving is somehow not far enough. Forbidden, by name, the drink during the ride. If some coffee platters on the leg dress of the driver, this is headed out in dangerous. Similarly, it looks with the food in the car. Also banned a few passeners, because the driver uses them and then no longer concentrated ride. Children in the car must also be banned, they also direct them from shouting, prefabricated remarks or pathogenes such as: "Dad, I have to go to the toilet!"

Forbidden the radiohoren in the car, because the music is often so goodful that the driver reacts to it aggressively. For the same reason, any song of passengers in the car must be banned. And, of course, briefly drowned women are not looking for the strain because they distract a lot of road users too much too much. As you can see, there is still a lot to ban with us. Let’s put it on! And then we finally come back to more important things.

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