So another piece to the corrupt immigration approval story came out late yesterday.
The basic story here....the German authorities have come to strongly suspect that four of the workers for BAMF (the German bureau that approves visas for migrants).....took cash from a middle-man situation (gang, mafia, etc)....to approve 2,000 cases (not the 1,200 originally suggested yesterday). No one says the amount per case. This could take six months to figure out the legal course to take, and if they have to force the applicants to hand over the visa, and start from scratch.
So ARD (public German TV, Channel One) came to lay out this one other piece to the story.....most of these people in the 2,000....are Kurds of a particular variety.
These are said to be Yazidis. I know....it's not a group that you commonly hear about.
Yazidis usually come from Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran, and are highly religious (note, they are not Muslims).
A lot of Yazidis come from Mosul and the Sinjar Mountain region.
Total number of Yazidis in the world? Generally, folks say half-a-million.....with some suggesting on up to one-million.
The unique prospective of this group? Well....once you are a Yazidis....you stay one. And you don't convert from another religion into Yazidis. So it's a family tradition (carried on for a thousand years now).
Curiously, if you were a fairly conservative Muslim....you generally label the Yazidis to be....well..."devil worshipers" because of this "angel peacock" which is the chief figure of their faith.
If you look over their religion....they've taken aspects of Islam, Christianity, and other religions....from a thousand years ago, and brought them into one central group. They will tell you first and foremost....they are descendants of Adam.
Generally, they don't talk to outsiders about their religion, and there are various aspects which are just 'unknown' in nature.
What makes no sense here is that they would be a persecuted group.....by ISIS, and a generally Muslim population. If you took the German rule-book on visa approvals....they'd get the points necessary to stay. So why pay some middle-guy? It makes no sense.
I would take an educated guess that they came upon some mafia-type folks, and wanted an absolute guaranteed visa approval, and the mafia-guy said X-amount.
The fact that the corruption episode has been laid out? It's an odd story now because it would appear that none of the Yazidis folks should have paid it in the first place, and someone slanted the whole process to make them believe they'd fail without paying.
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