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Since I can't get that cringeworthy interaction between Nadia Murad and Trump out of my head, here's a smattering of stories @JournalStarNews has done about the growing Yazidi community here in #LNK.
.@LJSreist wrote about Sulaiman Murad, who wrote about his experiences as an interpreter for the U.S. Army (many of Lincoln's Yazidis did), even before the genocide took place in Aug. 2014: journalstar.com/news/local/ira…
The Yazidi community took to the Capitol and Rep. Jeff Fortenberry's office in the days after ISIS swept through Northern Iraq. I covered one of the first calls to action they made in Lincoln: journalstar.com/news/local/yaz…
I remember swallowing the lump in my throat as I sat in Ilias Gares' house with he and Sulaiman as they waited for a call from Gares' brother, who was in hiding from ISIS just weeks after the genocide began. journalstar.com/news/local/yaz…
Khaleel Ali and wife, Hayfaa, didn't have time to obtain a passport for their newborn baby, Adam, when they fled Iraq in 2010. Adam stayed with his grandparents, miraculously surviving ISIS's onslaught before he was reunited with his parents in 2014: journalstar.com/news/local/yaz…
Nadia Murad spoke to Lincoln's Yazidi community in 2016 at the Lancaster Event Center. journalstar.com/news/local/isi…
It hasn't all been sad stories, though. Lincoln's St. Matthew's Episcopal Church has embraced the Yazidis, offering their building as an educational and cultural center. journalstar.com/news/local/yaz…
The Yazidis have also established their own cultural center and cemetery, and have worked very hard to improve both: journalstar.com/news/local/lin…
Margaret profiled Nibras Khudaida last year, who went from speaking virtually no English to giving the commencement speech for North Star's graduation cermoney: journalstar.com/news/local/edu…
And last year I wrote about the decade-long effort to get the family of 'Andy,' a Yazidi interpreter killed by a suicide bomber, to Lincoln: journalstar.com/news/local/fam…
