CULTURAL ENRICHMENT: Attacks on Yezidis in German refugee shelters. Diversity is our strength.

“We have fled from Iraq because we have faced discrimination. And now we have been put under one roof with the same people from whom this stigmatization came from”, says the irritated Faraj who is currently housed in a refugee hostel in Dunningen, Baden-Württemberg. . . .

Verbal abuses, sexual harassment as well as attacks on Christians and Yezidis by Muslim asylum seekers in Germany take place on an almost daily basis. They are no longer seen as isolated cases. . . .

Many Muslim asylum seekers, especially those from Iraq, pass themselves off as Yezidis from Shingal region before German authorities to increase their chance of being recognised as entitled to political asylum. Several of these cases are known and can be testified by Yezidis.