The 'ISIS Widows' and the myth of the innocent jihadi spouses.

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The 'ISIS Widows' and the myth of the innocent jihadi spouses. (JPost).

One woman recalled being raped by an Islamic State fighter. First the fighter’s wife would come in and put makeup on her. Then the wife would force her to dress up. Then, when his wife was done “preparing” her, the husband would come and rape her. According to an account published this year, the survivor remembers the rapist calling her “kuffar,” the Islamist word for sub-human or “unbeliever.”

Today the ISIS “widows” are the center of sympathy.

The thousands of Yazidi slaves that ISIS captured in August 2014 tell a different story of the ISIS women.

One told a reporter from Alternet that some of the jihadists’ wives were “worse” than the men. A Yazidi woman named Seeham said that the ISIS women would shout abuse at her.

One of the women forced her to shave her body and “brought sexy clothes to wear for her husband and helped him rape me by tying me to the bed.” It got worse. Seeham had a little daughter. Read the full story here.

The role of women in jihadism should not be underestimated. Women are just as dedicated to the jihadist ideal as men. The most recent publication of the AIVD is available in English now: 'Jihadist women, a threat not to be underestimated'. https://t.co/2UZScEU7HM

— AIVD (@AIVD) December 18, 2017

Islamic State trained 1,600 Yazidi children in beheading & Suicide attacks, could be in any country.

Islamic State trained 1,600 Yazidi children in beheading: Kurdish official. (IraqNews).

A Kurdish official has said that Islamic State militants trained more than 1600 Yazidi children on killing, battling, committing suicide and beheading over the past three years, DPA reported.

Khairi Bozani, the head of the Yazidi Affairs Office of the Kurdistan Regional Government, told journalists on Saturday that “consuls of countries in Kurdistan were notified that those children could represent danger against the whole world countries at any moment. It cannot be ruled out that IS could use them in terrorist actions in European countries as well as the U.S., Arab countries or elsewhere.”

According to the latest estimate by the Directorate of Yazidi Abductees Affairs in Duhok, more than 6,417 Yazidi persons were freed from IS.

Many Yazidis were persecuted and held in Mosul by Islamic State, which considered them devil-worshippers.

A study on the number of Yazidis affected showed that at least 9,900 of Iraq’s Yazidis were killed or kidnapped in just days in an attack by the militants in 2014.

About 3,100 Yazidis were killed – with more than half shot, beheaded or burned alive – while about 6,800 others were kidnapped to become sex slaves or fighters, according to the report published in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Medicine.

Related?         One Thousand ISIS Caliphate lion Cubs on the loose in Europe?

Video - Iraqi federal police freed 11-years-old Yazidi girl from ISIS Captivity in west Mosul.

'The war on Christianity' - 743 Christians Attacked by Muslims in German Refugee Camps in 2016.

'The war on Christianity' - 743 Christians Attacked by Muslims in German Refugee Camps. (Voiceofthepercecuted).

As Voice of the Persecuted has reported in the past, Christians fleeing violence are persecuted in Europe’s refugee centers.

(CBN) A new report from a coalition of Christians groups in Germany has found that 743 Christians and 10 Yezidis were victims of religiously motivated attacks in refugee camps so far this year.

The report comes from Open Doors Germany, AVC (Action on Behalf of Persecuted Christians and the Needy), IGFM (International Society for Human Rights), Aid to the Church in Need, and ZOCD (Central Council of Oriental Christians in Germany).

“The situation of Christian refugees in German refugee shelters is still unbearable. As a minority they are discriminated against, beaten up by and receive death threats from Muslim refugees and partly by the Muslim staff (security, interpreters, volunteers) on grounds of their religion,” the report says.

The Christian groups believe attacks on Christians are even more widespread than the number of reported incidents.

They call the survey, “the tip of the iceberg in regard to the number of religiously motivated attacks on Christian refugees and other religious minorities.”

“It must be assumed that there is a high number of unreported cases,” they conclude. “Effective measures for the protection of religious minorities (in refugee camps have) yet to be implemented.”

'Refugees' welcome - Kurdish Yazidi woman recognizes her ISIS abuser in Germany.

'Refugees' welcome - Kurdish Yazidi woman recognizes her ISIS abuser in Germany. (Basnews).

A Kurdish Yazidi woman who survived the so-called Islamic State (ISIS/IS) captivity accidentally saw her IS abuser in Germany.

The Kurdish Yazidi woman who is now receiving psychological treatment in Germany happened to see the IS militant who had maltreated her for four months while she was in IS captivity, Al-Alam News Channel reported on Sunday.

The IS militant who is said to be of Syrian origin is now living with his family in a refugee camp in Germany.

Abu Shuja'a Dinayi, an activist in freeing Yazidi women from IS, told Sputnik that the Yazidi woman has recognized the IS miltant in a market in Baden, Germany.

The Yazidi woman has informed the German police about the IS militant who had assaulted her for four months, he said.

After IS militants attacked the Yazidi town of Sinjar in mid-2014, they carried out various types of atrocities against Yazidis in the area. They abducted nearly 5,000 Yazidi women and girls and enslaved them in the IS-held territories in Iraq and Syria. Around 2,000 of the abducted Yazidis however have so far been freed from the grip of the militants.

The Islamic State in Mosul: The maximum price is for 'slave' children between one and nine years.

The Islamic State in Mosul: The maximum price is for 'slave' children between one and nine years. (AsiaNews).

Duraid Hikmat Tobiya, advisor for minorities in the governorate of Nineveh, confirms the abuse and rapes of Christian women. Unlike mass abuse of Yazide there are "individual victims" and "individual cases". The UN's decision to declare the genocide. And confirmation of Christian families hostage to the militants.

The Islamic State has committed "violence and abuse of a sexual nature" even against "Christian women"; however, unlike what happened for the yazide, who were the object of mass rapes, these are "individual victims" and "individual cases”, according to Duraid Hikmat Tobiya a Catholic, former minorities adviser for the governorate of Nineveh and member of the Hammurabi Human Rights Organization. Speaking to AsiaNews he confirms cases that have emerged in the international headlines in recent weeks.

The Catholic leader, who has a network of informants in the territories under IS control, says this gives added value to the "recognition" by the United Nations of the "genocide" committed by jihadists against the Yazidi (and Christians) it certifies the violence and is "an element of strength" for minorities in their struggle.

In recent days an Christian Iraqi woman, who fled from Mosul, a stronghold of the Islamic State in Iraq, described the violence suffered under the jihadists provoking widespread outrage.

By the evening of having been taken captive, she told US FoxNews, the woman is "married" and "divorced" at least nine times, to provide a religious justification to the torturers for her rape. "They took me as many times as they wanted," she said, on condition of anonymity for security reasons.

The woman, about 30, particularly remembers one of her tormentors, a certain Farouk, who "was obsessed with me," and used to say "I like the people of Jesus." Rapes and violence were preceded, she added, by ceremonies that were held via telephone and during which the radical religious leaders gave militiamen on duty permission to abuse her.

The Islamic State militia also have a system of tariffs, specifying the cost of "slaves" on the basis of age, ethnicity or faith they belong. The maximum price is for children between one and nine years. Women and children are called "merchandise" or "spoils of war" and the jihadists are obliged to comply with the tariff, those who violate are "executed".

With the rise of Daesh [Arabic acronym for the Islamic State] in Mosul and Nineveh Plain "Christians and Yazidis have been victims of enormous suffering," says Duraid Hikmat Tobiya. The Catholic leaders is originally from Mosul and his house (pictured below) was among the first to be marked with the N of the Nazarene [the jihadists term for Christians in their territories].

Both communities, adds the minorities counselor for the governorate of Nineveh, have been subject to "forced evictions, driven from their homes of their" lands and orphans. Most managed to escape, but "even today there are 3500 yazide women under the Daesh control. In addition there are "some Christian families in Mosul, for a total of about 50 people" still "in the hands of the Islamic State."

The latter "were not able to escape" two years ago because many of these people "are disabled, ill" and found no chance to flee. They are still living "under Daesh paying the tax imposed on Muslims or those who converted [under pressures] to Islam", refers Duraid Hikmat Tobiya that "there are 150 other Christians, including children and families, kidnapped and still in the hands of the jihadists ".

The Catholic leader believes the solution is the creation of special areas for minorities, such as Sinjar for the Yazidi and the plain of Nineveh, for Christians, under the protection of an international coalition.


However, the situation for Christians returning to their lands "remains difficult", he adds, because even in case of complete liberation "there would still be sleeper cells " ready to strike. And the work of cleaning up after such damage "will last very long." "Daesh - he concludes  - committed all sorts of crimes and has put the country back years".

Canada - Trudeau’s government urged to stop ignoring Kurdish Yazidi refugees their plight.

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Canada - Trudeau’s government urged to stop ignoring Kurdish Yazidi refugees their plight. (EKurds).

OTTAWA,— At least 400 Kurdish Yazidi women raped and tortured by Islamic militants (IS) could have safe passage to Canada if the government would heed a proposal to rescue them, a religious freedoms organization says.

One Free World International says in their drive to resettle more than 25,000 Syrian refugees, the Liberals are turning their backs on the most vulnerable — religious minorities who are often a direct target of warring factions in the ongoing conflicts in the region.

The group has identified 400 Yazidi women and their families, about 1,600 people in all, living in displaced persons camps in Iraqi Kurdistan. It has a plan to bring them to Canada, but says the proposal is being ignored.

Their situation is in part what prompted then-prime minister Stephen Harper to join international air strikes against IS.

But their fate is now forgotten, (By the Liberals) said Majed El Shafie, founder of the One Free World group.

Girls as young as nine are sold into sex slavery, tortured, forced to convert or be killed and yet the Canadian government is doing nothing to help, he told a House of Commons committee on Tuesday.
“The government has failed big time in helping them,” he said.

“Even if the government brought only nine cases, what will this do to the community that is facing genocide?”

The question of whether what’s happening to the Yazidis amounts to genocide will get renewed attention in the House of Commons on Thursday. A Conservative motion will be debated calling for the House to condemn the atrocities perpetrated by IS against religious and sexual minorities and to declare the crimes a genocide.

The Tories already tried and failed to move a motion to that effect in April.

Three months earlier, El Shafie said he’d met Immigration Minister John McCallum at a reception, chatted with him about the group’s plan and followed up a few days later with his chief of staff.
The group never heard back and held a press conference on the Hill last month to apply further pressure, but there’s been no action.

Initially Tuesday, neither McCallum nor his chief of staff could recall the meeting.

Later in the day after reviewing all their files, chief of staff Mathieu Belanger said he had discussed the issue with a consultant working with the group but the government’s policy remains that they directly resettle only refugees selected by the UN.

Belanger said, however, that they will take another look at the group’s proposal and discuss it with them in the next few days.


The government is already working with a group in Winnipeg sponsoring Yazidis through the private system but McCallum noted refugees in places like northern Iraq or Turkey are hard to reach and officials are doing what they can..

But NDP immigration critic Jenny Kwan said bureaucracy is no excuse for inaction when the reports of what’s happening to the Yazidis continue to circulate.

“Is it acceptable to just turn around and say, ‘I’m sorry, there’s nothing we can do?’,” she said.
El Shafie’s plan would involve sending teams to Iraqi Kurdistan in conjunction with settlement workers poised in Canada to accept the women and their families.

Since the women are in their home country, they would have to come to Canada under special provisions within immigration law, not the existing refugee resettlement program. Read the full story here.

"Plan to bring 400 Yazidi refugee families..but plan was ignored"
Is our GVT racist-only prioritize Muslim refugees? https://t.co/una4MYCEXY

— Manny Montenegrino (@manny_ottawa) June 9, 2016

Much more sinister
"special relationship" with muslims
Explanation for this priority is owed to Canadians https://t.co/JHGioJMJF2

— Hugh Grant (@MrDarcyNo1) June 9, 2016

Liberals urged to give refuge to hundreds of Yazidi women raped and tortured by Islamic militants https://t.co/vfIlJhzhux via @nationalpost

— Jacqueline (@Jacinallhonesty) June 9, 2016

Of the 27,190 'Syrian' refugees who came to Canada ONLY 9 cases of Yazidis are being processed.

Of the 27,190 'Syrian' refugees who came to Canada ONLY 9 cases of Yazidis are being processed. HT: CIJNews.

Since assuming power in November 4, 2015, Trudeau government brought in to Canada as of May 15, 2016, 27,190 Syrian refugees of whom 15,355 are government-assisted refugees, 2,341 blended visa-office referred refugees and 9,494 privately sponsored refugees.

Senior officials of the Ministry of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship confirmed on May 12, 2016 in their testimony to the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration that the number of Yazidi cases which are being processed are “small” totalling only 9 cases.

Immigration Canada is receiving refugee applications of Syrian nationals only in Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan. Hmmm.....And 'Islamist' Turkey determines which refugees are allowed to travel to host countries. For the other countries it's MUSLIM administrations who handle the applications. Read the full story here.

Related: EU complains Turkey is sending ill and less-educated Syrians, refuses to send Syrian academics.

Video - Yazidi Teen Who Escaped from ISIS Captivity Recounts Her Harrowing Experiences.

New Report Uncovers 35 Yazidi Mass Graves perpetrated by ISIS Terrorists in Iraq.

New Report Uncovers 35 Yazidi Mass Graves perpetrated by ISIS Terrorists in Iraq. by Matthew Barber.

Yazda is a Yazidi humanitarian and advocacy organization founded after the attempted genocide of the Yazidis by IS on Aug. 3, 2014.

Beginning this past fall, I took a one-year leave of absence from my PhD program at the University of Chicago to serve as Executive Director for Yazda during this period of urgent need. The accompanying responsibilities have unfortunately kept me away from Syria Comment of late.

One of Yazda’s projects is to document the crimes of genocide that were committed against the Yazidi people. Our genocide documentation project focuses on examining physical evidence of mass graves (bones, clothing, grave mounds) while gathering survivor testimonies to corroborate the physical evidence that we find.

Yazda is now issuing a full report on the mass graves in Sinjar, which is available on the Yazda website. VICE News has just published the full report here, and Human Rights Watch and Yazda have released a joint press statement on the urgency of protecting and performing forensic analyses of the mass graves.  Read or download the full report here,

Islamic State Opens New Supply Route Between Syria and Iraq.

Islamic State Opens New Supply Route Between Syria and Iraq.(voanews).

Islamic State (IS) militants have been using a new route between Syria and Iraq to ferry supplies since Iraqi Kurdish forces cut off one of IS' crucial links in northern Iraq last month.

VOA Kurdish correspondent Kawa Omar reports that IS militants are using civilian vehicles to move supplies between Raqqa and Mosul. The informal route starts from the small town of Ba’aj, south of Mosul, and continues to the town of Qirwan close to the border with Syria.

“We had information that [IS] was working on the construction of a route in south Mosul eight months before the Sinjar operation started,” Haider Shasho, a leading Yazidi commander in Sinjar, told VOA.

Shasho expressed concerns about the free movement of the IS fighters along the route.

“IS fighters are moving everything through the route from military supplies to food and fuel,” Shasho said. “I can say that more than 80 percent of the people crossing the Ba’aj border to Syria are [IS] fighters while the rest can be considered civilians empathizing with [IS].” Read the full story here.

German TV channel films ISIL slave trade in 'Islamist' Turkey.

German TV channel films ISIL slave trade in 'Islamist' Turkey. (TZ).

German television station ARD has produced footage documenting the slave trade being conducted by the radical terrorist group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) through a liaison office in Turkey.

Two correspondents from the TV channel filmed a Yazidi family buying their relatives to save them from ISIL and spoke to witnesses. The Yazidi family contacted a liaison office of ISIL in Turkey through a Kurdish man named Abu Mital, who works as an intermediary for ISIL, in order to purchase a mother, her three children and an 11-year-old boy from ISIL and return them to their family.

Speaking to ARD, Mital said that money transfers in the sale of slaves by ISIL are made through its liaison offices in Turkey. He said he has paid more than $2.5 million to ISIL over the past year for 250 Yazidi women and children who have been purchased by their families. Mital also said that ISIL gives numbers to the female and child slaves and posts their photographs on the Internet for sale.

In a related development, Gaziantep Bar Association President Bektaş Şarklı has filed a criminal complaint regarding the claims about whether ISIL has a liaison office in Gaziantep and its involvement in the sale of Yazidi women and children. Şarklı requested that an investigation be launched into the police force and the National Intelligence Organization (MİT), which he accused of negligence. He filed the criminal complaint at the Gaziantep Chief Public Prosecutor's Office.

Ankara categorically denies allegations that it turns a blind eye to ISIL's activities across the Syrian border. Read the ful story here.

Video - ISIS Feeds Starving Yazidi Mother Her own 3-Y-O Child; Yazidis Blame Obama 'Admin's Inaction for Ongoing Atrocities

 Video - ISIS Feeds Starving Mother Her own 3-Y-O Child; Yazidis Blame Obama 'Admin's Inaction for Ongoing Atrocities. ChristianPost.

Vian Dakhil spoke with Politico on Wednesday and explained that as many as 2,200 Yazidi women and girls have been kidnapped by IS and are being used a sex slaves. Another 420,000 Yazidis are living in refugee camps, which includes thousands of orphans who have no home.

Dakhil shared one particularly horrifying story, where IS fighters forced a starving mother to eat the meat of her own child, or at least told her so.

"One of the mothers calls me … she said 'for two days the ISIS doesn't give me any food' and they separated her children. One of them is 3 years and another is 5 years, after two days they give her rice with meat. After she's eating, she tell her this is your boy — 3 years," Dakhil said.

"She tells me please, I can't, I don't know what can I do — I'm eating my son. This is what happened with those woman under ISIS control and nobody cares."

Another mother was forced to watch her 9-year-old daughter being raped to death, Dakhil shared in a separate account.

Yazidis, Christians, and other minorities have suffered greatly under the rule of the self-proclaimed Islamic Caliphate, which has captured signification territory across Iraq and Syria.

Hmmmm.....This is why Canadians should vote for PM Harper, he knows who is in the greatest need, while others only care about Muslims this man cares about Christians and Yazidi! Read the full story here.

Videos - Yazidi-American Activist Seeks Help for Refugees.

As the world confronts the Syrian refugee crisis, Yazidi activists in the United States are calling attention to the plight of their displaced people in northern Iraq. Last year, Islamic State massacred more than 5,000 members of this religious minority, enslaved more than 5,000 Yazidi women and children and displaced hundreds of thousands more. The plight of the Yazidis, a religious-ethnic minority in Iraq, drew world attention last year when Islamic State fighters drove thousands of them to a mountain refuge in Sinjar. Far away, in the Midwestern city of Lincoln, Nebraska, the largest community of Yazidis in North America took action, led in great part by Laila Khoudeida, and she she continues to seek help for her threatened people. VOA's Greg Flakus reports. Originally published at - http://www.voanews.com/media/video/ya...

'Steve Maman's List' - Interview With Moroccan Jew Who Rescued 128 Girls Enslaved by ISIS.

'Steve Maman's List' - Interview With Moroccan Jew Who Rescued 128 Girls Enslaved by ISIS. (Morocco World News).

Meknes – Steve Maman has rescued more than 100 children from danger in Iraq in the past few months with the support of Canon Andrew White, a world-renowned humanitarian figure. In order to grow support for his mission, he registered on June 26, in Canada “The liberation of Christian and Yazidi children of Iraq (CYCI)” organization.

“We can act now or we can remain spectators,” announced its President, Steven Mamn, a Moroccan-Canadian. “Take part in this humanitarian cause: Donate & Share!” he asks.

Could you tell us about your foundation in few words and the choice of Yazidis and Christians?

Steve Maman: On June 26, 2015 I created a nonprofit organization called “The liberation of Christian and Yazidi children of Iraq (CYCI)” to support my mission. Its goal is to negotiate the liberation of children held hostage and used a sex slaves in Mosul. We chose Christians and Yazidi because they are the ones held hostage after a fatwa authorized them to be used and sold as sex slaves for the benefit of ISIS (Daesh) combatants. I would have definitely added the Muslim children to my mission if they were part of this horror.

Does your foundation have other objectives?

Steve Maman: Our unique objective is to liberate as many children as possible. The project has been going on for 8 months now, and the role of this organization is to provide us, in our work, with donations. Until now, I had carried the project on my own and have moved multiple families out of harm’s way.

What made you come up with the idea for this project?

Steve Maman: Well, I as a Moroccan Jew, I found this cause to engage in a true world responsibility. The Torah talks about two things: “Tikkun Olam,” repairing the world, and “Kiddouch Hashem,” to make God’s presence respected. As a Jew, it was a way to make this world better through actions of goodness and kindness. The goal here is for children to come out alive from this horrible war.

There is no question of religion, race, or nationality being discussed here. There are innocent children that are powerless, caught in the crossfire. But worse, they are being exploited in the crossfire, as if that alone were not enough pain to endure. The exploitations are beyond understanding. Children beheaded, raped, beat, underfed, left to live in cages! Why? Because they are Christian or Yazidi, and therefore this does not constitute a sin in the eyes of Islamic law in the way ISIS interprets it. This is not Islam. I refuse to accept, as a Jew, that this is Islam. This is a deformation, a distortion of Islam. This has to be decried and it has to be fixed. The fixing starts with giving them a chance at life.

I need support. One year has gone by and it has been long enough for world leaders to react and plan a solution, yet we see little being done for those left behind at the mercy of ISIS.

The heroic Government of Canada, with its Prime Minister Stephen Harper,who has gone to Iraq and pledged nearly 140 million dollars in aid to the humanitarian cause, as well as sending Canadian troops, is sending a message to the world. I wish to see more world leaders unite forces in order to find a solution to end this.

May god bless my mission with world leaders being aware of what I do and of what can be done. My mission is centered on the ones who are held hostage. I refer tothe ones kept in cages being hurt, abused molested and raped. The ones I truly wish to help are praying to God after every rape that he ends their pain and humiliation. It is reported they wish they be killed rather than live with such a fate.

God give them the strength to hold on to life for a bit longer until I get to them, God willing. Hmmm.....Thank God for Canadian PM Stephen Harper and Steve Maman. Read the full story here.

Video - Yazidi Artist Ammar Salim Documents ISIS Massacres

Amnesty International: Turkish gov failing to protect - 1.6 million Syrian refugees brace for brutal winter in Turkey.

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Amnesty International: Turkish gov failing to protect - 1.6 million Syrian refugees brace for brutal winter in Turkey.. (TodaysZaman).

With the arrival of winter weather and snowfall last week, increased hardship lies ahead for approximately 1.6 million Syrian refugees who have fled to Turkey since a civil war erupted in Syria in 2011.

Speaking to Sunday's Zaman on the phone, Yasemine, the director of a charity group called “Help the Syrians in İstanbul,” drew attention to the fact that many refugees crossed the border in late September. “It was still summer and they ran for their lives in summer clothes. Now, the conditions have changed and winter has come. What we see is that those people have almost nothing to wear and are trying to survive under really [harsh] conditions,” Yasemine said.

According to the Prime Ministry's Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate (AFAD), the number of Syrians in Turkish refugee camps and cities has reached 1.6 million. The Turkish government was initially praised for its open-door policy towards Syrian refugees and its humanitarian work in its camps. However, complications have arisen since only 30 percent of the refugees live in the 22 state-run camps, and the government does not supply the rest who live outside the camps with shelter or food even though winter has arrived.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) released an announcement on its website last week asking donors for $500 million to shelter, feed, clothe, vaccinate and otherwise care for the humanitarian needs of the Syrian refugees in host countries, including Turkey, and the millions of people who have been displaced within Syria.

Amnesty International, a human rights watchdog, released a written statement last week in which it accused countries hosting Syrian refugees -- including Turkey and Lebanon -- of failing to offer protection to them. Read the full story here.

Video - Isis fighters barter over Yazidi girls on 'slave market day'

Video - Isis fighters barter over Yazidi girls on 'slave market day' .(Independent)

In the video the cameraman declares: “Today is the slave market day,” and informs the audience that each fighter will receive “his share”.

The men discuss how much each slave is worth, with one fighter claiming that he will pay more for a girl with “blue eyes” and another saying he wanted a 15-year-old girl with green eyes. One man wants to exchange a female slave for a Glock gun.

Although difficult to verify, from the men’s accents it is believed they originate from Saudi Arabia, and are discussing a market in Mosul, Iraq. Hmmm.....I post this reluctantly but the world needs to see what hard line Islam is in it's core.

Read the full story here.

UPDATE IS Document Showing Prices For Yazidi or Christian Women or Girls (Kids) - Range 1 Year -50! #SaveYazidis pic.twitter.com/hTuHpQJyKM
— Dr Widad Akrawi (@DrWidadAkrawi) November 4, 2014

Islamic State magazine admits, justifies enslaving Yazidi women and children.

"double-check"ing if it's ok to have sex with Yazidi slave girls pic.twitter.com/jxdcRK6hLL” via @PalebluedotUK
— Zeynep Erdim (@zeynep_erdim) October 12, 2014

Islamic State magazine admits, justifies enslaving Yazidi women and children. (RT).

In an article published in the latest issue of the jihadist Dabiq magazine, a major PR instrument of ISIS, the group described the fate faced by the Yazidi minority after jihadists launched their onslaught on Sinjar region in Iraqi Kurdistan in August.

Following the attack, the article claims, “the Yazidi women and children were then divided according to the Shariah amongst the fighters of the Islamic State who participated in the Sinjar operations.”

“The enslaved Yazidi families are now sold by the Islamic State soldiers,” the author adds, noting that Sharia law saw is being observed and fighters did separate small children from their mothers.

Dabiq magazine goes to extensive ends to justify slavery using theological arguments while in another of the 70-page propagandist magazine authors quote Shaykh Abu Mahamed al-Adnani as saying: “We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and enslave your women, by the permission of Allah, the Exalted.”

On Sunday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report where it claims, based on a series of interviews that ISIS has “systematically” separated Yazidi young women and teenage girls from their families forcing them to marry its fighters.

HRW managed to track down 16 Yazidis who escaped Islamic State custody, and interviewed two detained women by phone.

None of the women admitted to have been raped, but four of them said they had fought off sexual assaults while confirming that other detained women told them that IS fighters had raped them. One interviewee said she witnessed a teenage girl being auctioned off to a fighter for $1,000. The women also attested to boys being forced to convert to Islam.

Seve, a 19-year-old who escaped ISIS captivity in late August, told Human Rights Watch that she watched the jihadis kill her husband before capturing her near Sinjar. She says that she was taken to Mosul, where ISIS forced her and others to marry them in group “weddings.”


Layla, another former captive said she and her sister were kept in a large hall in Mosul, alongside some 200 young women and girls. Each night, she said fighters came and chose a woman to take home with them.


“Every night the armed guards would say, ‘The mujahidin have arrived!’ They would enter the hall and pick those they desired, sometimes with force, other times just by pointing at them. When we asked the guards what was happening, they would say, ‘They are taking them to help the mujahidin at their houses’,” she told HRW.

The systematic abduction and abuse of Yazidi civilians “may amount” to crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said.
“Some specific abuses against civilians committed by members of Islamic State, as an armed group in a conflict, may amount to war crimes if committed with criminal intent, such as violence to life and person, including cruel treatment, and outrages against personal dignity.”


Since the ISIS lightning advance this year, Iraq's Yazidi minority have fallen victims to the extremists with reported cases of mass executions by Islamic State militants and kidnapping of women. More than 500,000 Yazidis and other religious minorities have fled Islamic State attacks in northern Iraq since June, most to the semi-autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, according to the United Nations and regional officials.

The 4th issue of Dabiq, ISIS English magazine. In it, slavery is justified based on close reading of Sunni sources. pic.twitter.com/sUB1iutW8e

— Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (@TusiPolymath) October 12, 2014

Yazidi MP Daxil: 25,000 girls abducted by ISIS gangs to be raped, sold for $150.

Yazidi MP Daxil: 25,000 girls abducted by ISIS gangs to be raped, sold for $150. (DN).

Iraq's only ethnic Êzidî (Yazidi) member of parliament says that the human rights situation in her country is "deteriorating," with Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) gang militants kidnapping, raping, and selling Êzidî women.

"They are still without any shelter. They are sleeping on the streets. The situation is not good and the winter is advancing, and it's raining, actually, in Iraq now. So the situation is deteriorating," legislator Viyan Daxil told RFE/RL in an October 8 telephone interview from Iraq's Kurdish region. Daxil, who has been cited by U.S. President Barack Obama, was named the winner of the 2014 Anna Politkovskaya Award on October 6 by the organization Reach All Women in War. The award, named after the murdered Russian journalist, honors women working to help those trapped in conflict.

'Êzidî women are targeted'

The lawmaker, who is currently recovering from injuries she suffered in an August 12 helicopter crash on Mount Shengal (Sinjar) in South Kurdistan, said that while ISIS militants have forced Christian women from their homes, Êzidî women often suffer worse fates. "Only Êzidî women are kidnapped. We don't know, actually, why exactly the Êzidî women are targeted," she said.

'They are taken to be raped, and they are selling them $150 for a girl'

MP Daxil says that of the more than 500,000 Êzidis in Iraq, some 25,000 Êzidî girls have been abducted by ISIS militants. "We don't know exactly where all of them are, but some are kept at various prisons here, still in Iraq, and some have been taken to Syria, and some are in Mosul," she said. "They are taken to be raped, and they are selling them -- $150 for a girl."

Call on international community to save women and children

Daxil called on the international community to step in to help the plight of the Kurdish religious and ethnic minority that has faced religious persecution for centuries and that has been dubbed "devil worshippers" by some Muslims. 

"I ask every government -- not only here -- to take some action to save these people here because the situation is really bad. What is happening here cannot be solved by the Iraqi government only," she said. Daxil gained international attention in August after making an impassioned plea to the Iraqi parliament about Êzidîs trapped on Mount Sinjar, which was surrounded at the time by ISIS militants. She called it genocide.

'I am speaking here in the name of humanity'

"My family is being butchered, just like all Iraqis are being killed. … And today, the Êzidîs are being slaughtered. Brothers, away from all the political disputes, we want humanitarian solidarity. I am speaking here in the name of humanity. Save us! Save us!" she told lawmakers on August 5. The speaker of parliament interrupted her speech, while others shushed her emotional address, after which she collapsed.

'Ten-year-old Êzidî girls are being raped'

Daxil broke both legs and several ribs in an August 12 helicopter crash on Mount Sinjar. The pilot of the aircraft, which was carrying about 35 people, was killed in the accident, while "New York Times" reporter Alissa Rubin was injured. Daxil said that she plans to return to parliament once she is fully healed.

She also asked Western Muslim women who are supporting ISIS militants -- an estimated 30 of whom have actually traveled to Iraq or Syria -- to look at what the group, which is also known as ISIS, is doing to Êzidî women.

"Every girl in the West who is supporting ISIS should put herself in any local girl's shoes and see what she has gone through. Twelve-year-old girls are being raped. Ten-year-old girls are being raped. I would like to ask women supporting ISIS, if she was in their situation, what would she feel. If she was from your family, what would you feel?" Daxil said.

"This girl could be your daughter, she could be your sister, she could be your neighbor,” she continued.

“Would you be totally comfortable if someone raped your daughter, or your sister, or your neighbor?" Hmmm......Dantes Hell has nine circles, time to add a Tenth one for ISIS Followers.

Interview conducted by Freshta Jalalzai of RFE/RL's Radio Free Aghanistan in Prague and written by RFE/RL correspondent Luke Johnson in Washington.