Afrinpost – Special
The militants of the Islamic militias affiliated with the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood in the occupied Kurdish Afrin region in northern Syria, exhumed and vandalized the “Sheikh Rakab” Yazidi shrine in the village of “Shadereh / Shah Al-Deir”, in search of archaeological treasures and dumps, along with an attempt to end everything related to the various religions in Afrin.
“Afrinpost” has obtained exclusive pictures from inside the Sheikh Rakab shrine showing the excavation and destruction taking place in the Yazidi shrine, where the Afrinpost correspondent in the Deshta Jomah region south of Afrin said that the Islamic militias do this in order to search for treasures and burials.
This is not the first shrine destroyed by the Turkish occupation of the Kurdish Yezidi component. The Sheikh Ali shrine was previously destroyed in the village of Basovan of the Shirawa district, southeast of Afrin. in a
In this regard, the Yazidi writer “Suleiman Jaafar,” a displaced from Afrin in Al-Shahba, told “Afrinpost” that “the shrine of Sheikh Rakab is where the shrine of one of the Yazid mystics is and where the Yazidis are blessed with it.” He added: “Its history dates back to the pre-Islamic era in the region. ”
Jaafar indicated that the aim of destroying the attractions is: “A Turkish attempt to present a false history, in which they make it clear that this region is a Turkish region, where they are trying to put an Islamic character on it, as they were placed on the door of the shrine of Sheikh Barakat (there is no god but Allah, Muhammad is Allah’s prophet” ). ”
