ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Prominent Yazidi activist Nadia Murad on Wednesday reacted to a recent remark by Elon Musk about the 2014 Yazidi genocide by the Islamic State (ISIS), urging awareness to identify early signs of such catastrophes in the future.
“What happened was far more than this. It cannot possibly be explained in a single screenshot,” said Murad in response to a post on X by its owner, Musk.
Murad, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and survivor of the ISIS atrocities, reacted to Musk’s post summarizing the Yazidi genocide.
“The savagery, brutality, and barbarity of what ISIS did to us are beyond words. What happened to the Yazidis should never happen to any other community @elonmusk. We can always detect early signs and take action to prevent genocide and sexual slavery,” she noted.
Musk’s post was a reaction to a text generated by Grok, X’s AI chatbot, answering the prompt “What happened to the Yazidi people?”
Musk posted, “Could what happened to the Yazidi people one day happen to Europe?”
When ISIS swept through the Yazidi heartland of Shingal in August 2014, committing genocide, the group killed an estimated 5,000 mainly men and older women and abducted 6,417 women and children who were forced into sexual slavery and labor.
Several Western countries have officially recognized ISIS crimes against Yazidis as genocide.
Musk has recently faced accusations of thrusting himself into European political discourse, using his platform X to critique European politicians while allegedly supporting far-right movements and white supremacist sentiments. These actions have drawn widespread condemnation from European leaders, who accuse Musk of promoting xenophobic and extremist narratives.
“What happened was far more than this. It cannot possibly be explained in a single screenshot,” said Murad in response to a post on X by its owner, Musk.
Murad, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and survivor of the ISIS atrocities, reacted to Musk’s post summarizing the Yazidi genocide.
“The savagery, brutality, and barbarity of what ISIS did to us are beyond words. What happened to the Yazidis should never happen to any other community @elonmusk. We can always detect early signs and take action to prevent genocide and sexual slavery,” she noted.
Musk’s post was a reaction to a text generated by Grok, X’s AI chatbot, answering the prompt “What happened to the Yazidi people?”
Musk posted, “Could what happened to the Yazidi people one day happen to Europe?”
When ISIS swept through the Yazidi heartland of Shingal in August 2014, committing genocide, the group killed an estimated 5,000 mainly men and older women and abducted 6,417 women and children who were forced into sexual slavery and labor.
Several Western countries have officially recognized ISIS crimes against Yazidis as genocide.
Musk has recently faced accusations of thrusting himself into European political discourse, using his platform X to critique European politicians while allegedly supporting far-right movements and white supremacist sentiments. These actions have drawn widespread condemnation from European leaders, who accuse Musk of promoting xenophobic and extremist narratives.
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