Sunday, August the 24th, 2014

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Forbidden!

The Yazidi, a primarily Kurdish religious minority, have been much in the news recently, threatened with death by the rampaging nutcases of IS, or Isis. You can read about their current travails elsewhere. I want here simply to mention the somehow endearing fact—reported by the BBC's Paul Wood—that in the Yazidi faith it is forbidden to eat lettuce.