At least 175 people have been killed in a series of suicide bomb attacks in northern Iraq, Iraq's military says. The blasts apparently targeted a Kurdish religious minority, the Yazidi sect, near Mosul. At least four blasts hit areas which house the community.
| That's an old religion, greatly predates Islam. |
| Courtesy of Michael J. Totten: "The Beginning of the Universe". |
Tensions between the sect and local Muslims have grown since a Yazidi girl was reportedly stoned by her community in April for converting to Islam. Members of the Yazidi community worship an archangel, sometimes represented by a peacock figure. Some Christians and Muslims believe the angel they revere to be the devil.