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Wednesday 03 Feb 2016 - 13:52 Makkah mean time-24-4-1437
Yazidis from Sinjar Province in Iraq after their arrival on the Greek island of Lesbos from Turkey in November. Yazidis have faced persecution from ISIS. Image from The New York Times
Marrakesh, (IINA) - A representative of the Yazidi religious minority in Iraq and Syria said his people desperately needed protection from ISIS group, The New York Times reported. He was speaking at a recent conference held by Muslim scholars to confront violence in the Islamic world.
The gathering here of about 300 muftis, theologians and scholars last month responded far more broadly by issuing the Marrakesh Declaration, which calls for Muslim countries to tolerate and protect religious minorities living within their borders, and among them there are Christians, Jews, Hindus and Bahais as well as Yazidis and Sabians.
On the other hand, US President Barack Obama hailed the conference last Wednesday at a ceremony held in Washington to honor recipients of the Righteous among the Nations Awards, which honor non-Jews who rescued Jews during the Holocaust.
“We know that there were Muslims from Albanians to Arabs who protected Jews from Nazis,” Obama said. “In Morocco, leaders from Muslim-majority countries around the world just held a summit on protecting religious minorities, including Jews and Christians.”
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