Day 401

Day 401;

So this day has gone from ok to good to bad and then finally to ok, all within the space of 90 minutes plus stoppage time.

If you already knew where the second half of my former statement came from then congratulations, noes you can have your cake and eat it, 

But now apart from that cake eating statement something else has been concerning me, It's the nature of that Isis terrorist group, but not for the obvious reasons; being they are a F*ing terrorist group. What bothered me was the whole premise with them being called Isis, and who is Isis?

Thank Bing for the full answer.
"Isis is a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. She was worshipped as the ideal mother and wife as well as the patroness of nature and magic. She was the friend of slaves, sinners, artisans and the downtrodden, but she also listened to the prayers of the wealthy, maidens, aristocrats and rulers. Isis is often depicted as the mother of Horus, the hawk-headed god of war and protection. Isis is also known as protector of the dead and goddess of children."

So basically it's a long since dead goddess of Ancient Egypt, so with it being linked to the Islamic State uprising in the east is really quite amusing as didn't Muhammed apparently destroy all of the Idols to the separate gods and goddess' when he invaded Mecca or so the fairy tale goes. Now that an Islamic militant group has taken up the name of something that Muhammed really doesn't like and it's in the process of doing something that Muhammad really wouldn't like according to his BBC profile at least, I'm typing about them, the Islamic State people threatening 300 Yazidi families on pain of death to convert to Islam.

Please look at this Yahoo article to find the story, in it's abridged form.

But what are Yazidi? 

Now it was a new term to me today as well, but I that discovered so I'd like to thank Bing again for the following answer.
"The Yazidi are a Kurdish-speaking ethno-religious community who practice an ancient syncretic religion linked to Zoroastrianism and early Mesopotamian religions. They live primarily in the Nineveh Province of northern Iraq, a region once part of ancient Assyria. Additional communities in Armenia, Georgia and Syria have been in decline since the 1990s, their members having migrated to Europe, especially to Germany. The Yazidi believe in God as creator of the world, which he has placed under the care of seven "holy beings" or angels, the "chief" of whom is Melek Taus, the "Peacock Angel." In Zoroastrian-like tradition, the Peacock Angel embodied humanity's potential for both good and bad acts, and due to pride temporarily fell from God's favor, before his remorseful tears extinguished the fires of his hellish prison and he reconciled with God. Some followers of other monotheistic religions mistakenly equate the Peacock Angel with their own unredeemed evil deity Satan, which has incited centuries of persecution of the Yazidi as "devil worshippers." Persecution of Yazidis has continued in their home communities within the borders of modern Iraq, under both Saddam Hussein and fundamentalist Sunni Muslim revolutionaries."

So basically another religion that has been called names by other religions and it's got the god freak as only a deity, and it's got seven demigods basically as the theistic gods, like the peacock god which is the god of humanity.