Hardline Sunni extremists suspected in b…

Hardline Sunni extremists suspected in bombings of religious minorities around Mosul.

Juan Cole writes:
Two suicide bombers hit a cafe in the Yazidi town of Sinjar, Iraq, on Thursday, killing at least 21 persons and wounded many more. The Yazidis are a religious group among the Kurds who are considered heretics by hard line Muslims, since their religion mixes old pre-Islamic Iranian motifs with Sufi mystical terminology. This operation is very similar to the attack on the Kurdish Shabak people, who follow a form of folk Shiism, on Monday morning.