Evangelical Christians have offered Bibles to internally displaced
Kurdish Yezidis in aid camps in Iraqi Kurdistan, asking the refugees to
convert to Christianity in order to start a new life in the West.
Some went in under the guise of aid workers, while others had only
Bibles and prayers on offer. Even though this shocked many observers,
the alarm that Yezidi parliamentarian Vian Dakhil raised was mainly
followed by a resounding silence.
The only consequence so far has been an attempt by authorities to
control who goes in and out of the camps by demanding a permit. This
hampers the work of journalists reporting on the Yezidi issue, because a
different permit now is needed for all the different camps.
Yet the permit-system does not deal with the moral issue: how can anyone
who knows what the Yezidis suffered in the hands of radical Islamists
of ISIS, and how precious their already threatened religion is to them,
confront them with conversion?
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