Islamic state seeks to justify enslaving Yazidi women & girls in Iraq.

[burahadeer]

https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/islamic-state-seeks-justify-enslaving-yazidi-women-girls-150713031.html

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ARBIL Iraq (Reuters) - The Islamic State group said it enslaved families from the minority Yazidi sect after overrunning their villages in northwestern Iraq, in what it praised as the revival of an ancient custom of using women and children as spoils of war.

 

In an article in its English-language online magazine Dabiq, the group provides what it says is religious justification for the enslavement of defeated "idolators".

 

The ancient custom of enslavement had fallen out of use because of deviation from true Islam, but was revived when fighters overran Yazidi villages in Iraq's Sinjar region.

 

"After capture, 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, after one fifth of the slaves were transferred to the Islamic State's authority to be divided as khums," it said. Khums is a traditional tax on the spoils of war.

 

"This large-scale enslavement of mushrik (idolator) families is probably the first since the abandonment of Shariah law," it said.

 

Dabiq, distributed in a slickly-produced online format, is described by the group SITE that monitors militant publications as Islamic State's English-language magazine.

 

The cover shows a picture of St Peter's Basilica in Rome, with an Islamic State black flag superimposed in place of the cross atop its obelisk. Inside it features photos of the group's arsenal of heavy weaponry and what it says is the final letter to his mother from an American journalist the group beheaded.

 

The article on slavery confirms practices documented by Human Rights Watch, which says Yazidi women and girls were forced to marry Islamic State fighters and shipped out in busloads from Iraq to Syria to be sold off as prizes.

 

Islamic State practices a harsh form of Sunni Islam and has declared its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi the ruler of the entire Muslim world. Mainstream Sunni scholars around the world have denounced the group and its interpretation of Islam.

 

The group has hounded ethnic and religious minorities in northern Iraq since seizing the city of Mosul in June, killing and displacing thousands of Christians, Shi'ite Shabaks and Turkmen who lived for centuries in one of the most diverse parts of the Middle East.

 

"FIRMLY ESTABLISHED"

 

U.S. President Barack Obama justified his decision to bomb Islamic State targets in August in part because the group was poised to commit what he called "genocide" against Yazidis, who were trapped at the time on a mountaintop after fleeing an Islamic State assault on their towns and villages.

 

Yazidis, who follow an ancient religion derived from Zoroastrianism, have faced some of the harshest penalties from Islamic State, which regards them as devil-worshippers.

 

The Dabiq article said fighters were reviving a practice of the companions of the Prophet Mohammad by enslaving enemies. Enslaving women and forcing them to become wives reduces sin by protecting men from being tempted into adultery, it said.

 

"One should remember that enslaving the families of the (non-believers) and taking their women as concubines is a firmly established aspect of the Shariah, that if one were to deny or mock, he would be denying or mocking the verses of the Quran and the narrations of the Prophet," the article said.

 

Many of the captives had "willingly" accepted Islam, the group said, "and now race to practice it with evident sincerity after their exit from the darkness of idolatry". Mothers had not been separated from their young children, it said.

 

U.S.-led air strikes have halted Islamic State advances in the north of Iraq, allowing Kurdish forces to regain ground. Many of the Yazidis trapped on the mountain they consider a holy site, Mount Sinjar, were eventually able to escape, but their nearby villages are still under militant control.

 

HORRIFIC CRIMES

 

On Sunday, Human Rights Watch said Islamic State was holding hundreds of Yazidis captive in both Iraq and Syria and that the group had systematically separated young women and teenage girls from their families, forcing some into marriage with fighters.

 

Fifteen-year-old Rewshe, one of several Yazidi girls who escaped Islamic State captivity and spoke to Human Rights Watch, said Islamic State fighters transported her with about 200 Yazidi women and girls on a convoy of four buses to Raqqa, their de facto capital in Syria.

 

An Islamic State commander sold her and her 14-year-old sister to a fighter, who told her with pride that he had paid $1,000 for her, she said. The fighter sold her sister to another fighter, Rewshe said. She escaped through an unlocked door while the man who bought her slept.

 

"The statements of current and former female detainees raise serious concerns about rape and sexual slavery by Islamic State fighters, though the extent of these abuses remains unclear," Human Rights Watch said.

 

“The Islamic State’s litany of horrific crimes against the Yezidis in Iraq only keeps growing,” said Fred Abrahams, special adviser at Human Rights Watch.

 

(Reporting by Isabel Coles; Editing by Peter Graff)

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[burahadeer]

Curse be upon the so called Islamic fighters,may Ebola decimate thm.

YUK!

[CidanSultan]

Yazidis seek to justify the killing of Muslims converts.

 

 

 

[Khayr]

War is filled with deception and propaganda.

How does anyone in Syria and Iraq have $1000

to buy captives?

[burahadeer]

<cite>@CidanSultan said:</cite>

Yazidis seek to justify the killing of Muslims converts.

 

 

 

killing innocent people shouldn't be acceptable on either side,but why they have to enslave anotha human being and specially women and children; is that something we have to ova look at this day and age ?

[Tallaabo]

<cite>

@CidanSultan

said:</cite>

Yazidis seek to justify the killing of Muslims converts.

 

Does that mean you support the enslavement and rape of the Yezidi women and children by your barbarian role models?

[Tillamook]

Lol...

 

It seems our resident secessionist Habros of somaliaonline have all found themselves a new pet project: being for or against the groups engaged in the conflict in Syria and Iraq.

 

Have any of y'all ever wondered why these hapless secessionist Habros give a damn about the conflicts of the Middle East, when they could easily discuss and debate the myriad problems of their little enclave.

 

Answer me this: why do you care about Yazidiz when Habro youth hang themselves and die in droves on the high seas? Why would you support the terrorists groups of the M.E when the youth of Somaliland need your support!

 

Saaxiibyaal, caqlixumo ayaa idinku goobatay ee bal sida isku dhaama!

[Tallaabo]

^ We don't have any major problems Alxamdu Lillah. With Allah's mercy we do not have any bad news or major pronlems to deal with and so for that reason we are concerned about the problems in the rest of the world.

[Tillamook]

^

Clearly you're suffering from the Silanyo syndrome( sweeping problems under the rugs).

 

Saaxiib, the elctorial process is in shambles with the opposition parties calling for war and and Silanyo being adamant about cheating his way to a second term.

 

The pursuit for international recognition has come to a quick and brutal end.

 

The youth are suffering and fleeing the place.

 

Surely with these problems and many more too numurous to list, why the eff would you give a damn about Syria and Iraq?

 

Saaxiib, tiisa daryeela tu kale Ku dara!

[Tallaabo]

The registration of voters is being deal with despite minor problems like working out whether our president was born in 1936 or in 1942 :-D

The elections will take place on time inshallah and the opposition is cooperating with the government to make that happen. Joblessness is a problem in Somaliland as it is every other country in the world. But as our economy is doing ok, I believe more jobs will become available in the future inshallah.

The internation recognition is not a priority for the man and woman on the streets of our towns and cities as it is for our leaders, so I will leave that matter for the politicians.

So as I have already said, we don not have major problems in Somaliland to worry about Alxamdu Lillah, hence our debate about the Middle East.

[Tillamook]

^

Masha-Allah, Tallaabo, if you mean to tell us that everything is fine and dandy and that your lot are as happy as pigs in shit, then who am I to disagree, huh?

 

Let's move along to something of more concern to your blessed and verdant republic of Somaliland .. Who was beheaded and who was bombed in Syria?

[burahadeer]

Tallabo maybe we have to keep going with the endless more than quarreling in Somalia.Are there any otha posts by southerners,like ebola or the feminist turned muslim now on top the blog?