Yazidi Ethical Issue

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The Middle East is currently going through an ethnic cleansing, so to speak. The ISIS forces wish to eliminate the Yazidi population using any means necessary, including genocide and indentured sexual enslavement. This treatment has been going on for generations, creating an institutional or systemic discrimination, meaning a prejudice of a minority group that is intensely ingrained into a society’s belief system. The Yazidi’s have become targets of the ISIS hate crimes, crimes that are driven by hatred of one’s race, religion, ethnicity, or origin (Henslin 2014). This patriarchic society, dominated by men, is falsely using the Islamic religion as a means to rape and pillage here in the 21st century. I explored many news articles, each more

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