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Forced Conversions Lead to Killings in Iraq Villages

Scores of people are thought to have been killed by extremist gunmen in one village in northern Iraq after refusing to convert to Islam, an incident likely to heighten international concern about the plight of Iraq’s Yazidi minority. [Source]

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Origin: nytimes.com

Category: Muslims and Islam

Topics: minority, Yazidi, Iraq’s, plight, concern, international, heighten, likely, incident, Islam, convert, refusing, northern, village, gunmen, extremist, killed, thought, people, Scores, Villages, Killings, Conversions, Forced

Source: http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/640350/s/3d91323a/sc/11/l/0L0Snytimes0N0C20A140C0A80C170Cworld0Cmiddleeast0Cforced0Econversions0Elead0Eto0Ekillings0Ein0Eiraq0Evillages0Bhtml0Dpartner0Frss0Gemc0Frss/story01.htm