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Please note:: this "letter" referred to has not appeared in any other source that I am familiar with although I do not doubt that such may exist. Based on previous posting concerning this "theology of rape" and the use of "sexual slavery", I am not surprised by the depravity shown by ISIS.
The twisted terror group's leader
has issued a terrifying edict telling militants that repeatedly sexually
abusing women is the best way to make them Muslim.
The sickening
letter, circulated amongst the group's warped fighters, states that a
woman automatically becomes Muslim if she is raped by at least 10
different ISIS fighters.
It emerged as victims of the
perverted hate group spoke out about its infamous sex slave markets,
where twisted militants can buy women for as little as a packet of
cigarettes.
Many
of the women come from the Yazidi religious sect and have been
horrendously defiled and mutilated by Islamist fanatics who believe they
indulge in "devil worship".
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London-based
Imam Ajmal Masroor said the terrorists have "hijacked" the religion in
an attempt to justify their own depraved desires.
He told CNN: "The people of ISIS don't represent Islam at all. In fact, if anything, they are anti-Islam.
"They have hijacked Islam. They have denigrated Islam. They have desecrated it.
So what about Islamic State’s
sexual enslavement of non-Muslims, particularly Yazidi girls? Given the
group’s policy coordination at the highest levels, are these practices
being carried out as an intentional repudiation of an international
“year of the woman” argument? Is the group seeking to refute efforts to
lionize Malala Yousufzai or champion women’s emancipation even in the
most traditional of villages?
Islamic State is attuned to the
interests of observant Muslim boys and girls around the world. As it
works to recruit young adults and teenagers throughout the West,
newspapers have reported, the group has demonstrated a remarkable sense
of the languages and challenges of modernity.
So there may also be an official
sense among Islamic State leaders that the practice of sexually
enslaving Yazidi women would likely disgust and outrage the West and
other Muslims. Yet it also challenges modern Muslim youth to think about
male sexual gratification in unambiguous warrior terms, and to view
Islamic State’s stark society as morally complete in its treatment of
others — a society which requires that they must give up “Western”
values to join.
The social context may be just as
important for understanding this new policy of sexual enslavement. One
thing learned from the study of the small religious movements that have
sprung up in the West over the past few centuries is the systematic
restructuring of sexual relations that leaders have often demanded at an
early point in the movement. This may involve group celibacy or
polygamy, the exclusive sexual rights of the leader, or free sexual
relations. It can often mean dissolution of prior marriages.
"He kept telling me this is ibadah,” she said, using a term from Islamic scripture meaning worship.
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The
systematic rape of women and girls from the Yazidi religious minority
has become deeply enmeshed in the organization and the radical theology
of the Islamic State in the year since the group announced it was
reviving slavery as an institution. Interviews with 21 women and girls
who recently escaped the Islamic State, as well as an examination of the
group’s official communications, illuminate how the practice has been
enshrined in the group’s core tenets.
The
trade in Yazidi women and girls has created a persistent
infrastructure, with a network of warehouses where the victims are held,
viewing rooms where they are inspected and marketed, and a dedicated
fleet of buses used to transport them.
A
total of 5,270 Yazidis were abducted last year, and at least 3,144 are
still being held, according to community leaders. To handle them, the
Islamic State has developed a detailed bureaucracy of sex slavery,
including sales contracts notarized by the ISIS-run Islamic courts. And
the practice has become an established recruiting tool to lure men from
deeply conservative Muslim societies, where casual sex is taboo and
dating is forbidden.
A
growing body of internal policy memos and theological discussions has
established guidelines for slavery, including a lengthy how-to manual
issued by the Islamic State Research and Fatwa Department just last
month. Repeatedly, the ISIS
leadership has emphasized a narrow and selective reading of the Quran
and other religious rulings to not only justify violence, but also to
elevate and celebrate each sexual assault as spiritually beneficial,
even virtuous.
“Every
time that he came to rape me, he would pray,” said F, a 15-year-old
girl who was captured on the shoulder of Mount Sinjar one year ago and
was sold to an Iraqi fighter in his 20s. Like some others interviewed by
The New York Times, she wanted to be identified only by her first
initial because of the shame associated with rape.
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In
the parking lot the same fleet of Hajj buses was waiting to take them
to their next destination, said F. Along with 24 other girls and young
women, the 15-year-old was driven to an army base in Iraq. It was there
in the parking lot that she heard the word “sabaya” for the first time.
“They
laughed and jeered at us, saying ‘You are our sabaya.’ I didn’t know
what that word meant,” she said. Later on, the local Islamic State
leader explained it meant slave.
“He
told us that Taus Malik” — one of seven angels to whom the Yazidis pray
— “is not God. He said that Taus Malik is the devil and that because
you worship the devil, you belong to us. We can sell you and use you as
we see fit.”
The
Islamic State’s sex trade appears to be based solely on enslaving women
and girls from the Yazidi minority. As yet, there has been no
widespread campaign aimed at enslaving women from other religious
minorities, said Samer Muscati, the author of the recent Human Rights
Watch report. That assertion was echoed by community leaders, government
officials and other human rights workers.
