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RELIGIOUS LIFE
Although members of the ruling Baath Party generally
are ideologically committed to secularism, about 95 percent of Iraqis are
Muslim and Islam is the officially recognized state religion. Islam came
to the region with the victory of the Muslim armies under Caliph Umar over
the Sassanians in A.D. 637 at the battle of Al Qadisiyah. The majority of
inhabitants soon became Muslim, including the Kurds, although small
communities of Christians and Jews remained intact in the area of
present-day Iraq. Iraq has been the scene of many important events in the
early history of Islam, including the schism over the rightful successor
to the Prophet Muhammad.
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Yazidism
Yazidism,
THEOLOGY, CULT and WORSHIP, ORGANIZATION, DEVIL WORSHIPPERS?
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