ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the possibilities and limitations of the creation of a democratic, pluralist and liberal Middle East and Iraq, beginning with the period of American intervention, in the light of the politics that the Yezidis face. The Yezidis, not having military or political power to engage in an insurgency to protect themselves and demand their rights to live in their own lands and participate the political life of the region, have been forced to leave the region amid a range of massacres. Future inclusion of Yezidi society in Middle East politics will depend upon the subjective relations of a new ethnic, political and militarized order. While modern Yezidis reject any association with Islam, Muslims continue to see Yezidism as a heresy or divergence from Orthodox Islam, meaning that they should bring its followers to the right path of Islam or wipe them out.
