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Heart and Soul: Iraq’s religious minorities: Exodus and extinction: Kaka'i: Our fight to survive

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17/05/2019 GMT

Kaka'i: Our fight to survive

Iraq’s religious minorities: Exodus and extinction

BBC World Service - Heart and Soul, Iraq’s religious minorities: Exodus and extinction, Kaka'i: Our fight to survive

The Kaka'i people of Iraqi Kurdistan are battling to keep their faith in the face of ISIS

The Kaka'i people of Iraqi Kurdistan are battling to keep their faith in the face of ISIS.

Farhad al-Kake tells the story of his people, the Kaka'i of Iraqi Kurdistan, whose faith has put them under threat from Islamic fundamentalists. Persecution has made them secretive about their beliefs and practices, but for the first time they tell of the danger they face – how places of worship have been destroyed and believers kidnapped, attacked and murdered by Isis, who hold the Kaka'i’s egalitarian, peaceful religion to be a ‘false cult’. Despite the danger, we hear how the Kaka'i are holding on to their faith on the frontline.

(Photo: Kaka'i women on rugs. Credit: Farhad al-Kake)

Heart and Soul: Iraq’s religious minorities: Exodus and extinction

Two religious communities in Iraq are battling to keep their faith in the face of ISIS

How two religious communities in Iraq are battling to keep their faith in the face of ISIS.

Iraq’s minorities, some of the oldest communities in the world, are being driven from the country by Islamic extremists. In this series we hear how two different religious minorities in Iraqi Kurdistan are trying to save their faith in the face of persecution.

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