Any good anagrams for yazidis?

Yazidis (also written as Yezidis) ( (listen) are a mostly Kurmanji-speaking ethnoreligious group, or an ethnic Kurdish minority indigenous to Iraq, Syria and Turkey who are strictly endogamous. A sizeable part of the autochthonous Yazidi population of Turkey fled the country for present-day Armenia and Georgia starting from the late 19th century. There are additional communities in Russia and Germany due to recent migration.Some of them identify themselves as ethnic Kurds while others identify as an ethno-religious group. According to Armenian anthropologist Levon Abrahamian, Yazidis generally believe that Muslim Kurds betrayed Yazidism by converting to Islam, while Yazidis remained faithful to the religion of their ancestors. In Iraq and Armenia, the Yazidis are recognized as an ethnic group. In Iraqi Kurdistan the Yazidis are considered ethnic Kurds and the autonomous region is highly critical of any move to recognize Yazidis as an ethnic group. The sole Yazidi parliamentarian in the Iraqi Parliament Vian Dakhil also stated her opposition to any move separating Yazidis from Kurds. Yazidis are also regarded as ethnic Kurds in Georgia.Historically, there have been Kurdish persecutions against Yazidis with the goal of converting Yazidis to Islam. The Yazidis were nearly wiped out by these massacres. Some Yazidi tribes converted to Islam and embraced the Kurdish identity.Some Yazidis use the glossonym Ezdiki for Kurmanji. According to these Yazidis, they are not the ones who speak the language of the Kurds but vice-versa. In Armenia, the language of the Yazidis (Ezdiki or Yazidi) is recognized as a national minority language. However, the attempts to separate from Ezdiki from Kurmanji are not based on scientific evidence.Their religion, Yazidism, is also called Sharfadin by Yazidis. It is a monotheistic religion and has elements of Ancient Mesopotamian religions and some similarities with Abrahamic religions such as Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Yazidis who marry non-Yazidis are automatically considered to have converted to the religion of their spouse and therefore are not permitted to call themselves Yazidis. The Yazidis in Iraq live primarily in Nineveh Governorate, part of the disputed territories of northern Iraq.Since 3 August 2014, the Yazidis became victims of an ongoing genocide by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in its campaign to rid Iraq and its neighbouring countries of non-Islamic influences.

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