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“This is the fate of any prostitution”: Jihadists murder 27 prostitutes in Iraq

Jul 13, 2014 6:57 pm By Robert Spencer

Baghdad_0Prostitution is immoral in Islam, displeasing to Allah. Murdering prostitutes, however, is in the eyes of the jihadists a meritorious act that Allah will reward. “And whomever Allah leaves astray – there will be for him no guide. For them will be punishment in the life of this world, and the punishment of the Hereafter is more severe. And they will not have from Allah any protector.” (Qur’an 13:33-34) So if the ones who are astray are to be punished in this world, how can anyone protest against the murder of these 27 women? They were, after all, prostitutes.

“Iraq Prostitutes Slain Amid Culture of Fear and Secrecy,” Agence France-Presse, July 13, 2014 (thanks to Halal Pork Shop):

Baghdad: Apartment blocks near a mosque and a kindergarten daubed with cartoon characters seem an unlikely place for the slaughter of 27 alleged prostitutes, but in Baghdad death is never far.

Few people in the Iraqi capital’s Zayouna district know any details of what happened in their neighbourhood late on Saturday, and even fewer want to hazard a guess.

Residents of the rubbish-strewn area of crumbling grey apartment blocks say they stopped asking questions long ago in a city awash with guns and gangs and cursed with an ineffectual and politicised police force.

“People are afraid. They don’t know their neighbours. Everyone’s concerned about the safety of their own family and home. … Some prostitutes were killed near me a few months ago and the neighbours only found out days later because of the smell,” said Zayouna resident Wissam Sami, 23, a student.

“I don’t know who carries out these killings. Both Daash and the Shiite militias wear black and anyone can buy a uniform or fake an identity card.”

Daash is the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant jihadist group, now known as Islamic State, which last month overran swathes of northern and western Iraq. The word is often used as a catch-all term for Sunni militants.

AFP reporters were able to pass unchallenged through the main police checkpoint into Zayouna, where the previous evening police said gunmen stormed two apartment buildings and killed 27 women with silenced weapons.

“This is the fate of any prostitution,” read a inscription on the door of the one of the raided buildings.

– Highly taboo subject –
Zayouna residents say that local apartments have long been used for prostitution and that alleged sex workers are found murdered every few months, with police unwilling or unable to prevent the attacks.

“If a person got shot right next to a policeman they wouldn’t say anything. They’re afraid. It’s the rule of the strong over the weak,” said a shopkeeper who declined to be identified.

“So what if they were prostitutes? It’s God who judges us, after all.”

Other Zayouna residents were less sympathetic. Prostitution is a highly taboo subject in conservative Iraq, where religious political parties have risen to prominence in recent years.

“People are tired of the prostitutes. They attract criminals and immoral people,” said another shopkeeper who also did not want to be identified by name.

Questions about motives for the attack and the identity of the gunmen were in most cases met by a wall of silence.

Shiite militias with connections to political parties hold sway over parts of Baghdad, while suicide blasts by Sunni extremists are still frequent, with sectarian killings on both sides routine.

Both groups’ extreme antipathy to sex workers is probably one of the few things they have in common.

“Everyone’s afraid. Let me be killed but I have to say what’s in my heart. I’m a Shiite, and I’m telling you these were Shiite gangs. Who else controls Baghdad? They’re more powerful than the police and any other authority,” said tattooed taxi driver Hassan Assad, 36, who works in Zayouna.

“The prostitutes have been here since Saddam’s time. Why do you think they’re doing this? Because their husband has been imprisoned or killed and they’re trying to feed their kids. How did Iraq come to this?”

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  1. Pica pica says

    Jul 13, 2014 at 7:09 pm

    “It’s God who judges us, after all.” How come they don’t trust their God? How do they know what he would have done?

    I don’t trust these people when they cry out: Allahu Akbar.

    • Jan Fourowls says

      Jul 13, 2014 at 10:10 pm

      You’re right not to trust Islam as the “religion” that spawns Muslim terrorists circling the globe — their “Allahu Akbar” doubles also as their war cry.

      Bukhari Sahih Hadith 5.456 – “Muhammad led the Fear/ Terror Prayer [Allahu Akbar] with one batch of his army while the other (batch) faced the enemy.” Also: Bukhari Sahih Hadith 5.516 – “When Allah’s Apostle fought or raided people we raised our voices saying, ‘Allahu-Akbar! Allahu-Akbar! None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.'”

      Muslims pretend in the West, wherever they don’t have political control, that jihad means struggle. Muslims, wherever they have Sharia law power to stone people and lop off their hands, feet or heads, prove that jihad is a warring struggle for Islamic global supremacy.

      Jesus refused to stone the woman caught in adultery (perhaps a prostitute) and forgave her; Muslims under Sharia law and/or the Quran slaughter without mercy the prostitutes that Muslim men of course frequent as do a subset of men everywhere or else prostitution would not be the world’s oldest “profession.”

      Quran 4:3 recommends Muslim men take as wives up to four orphans, essentially recommending pedophile polygamy as the fate for little girls whose parents have been murdered in Muslim conquest. Of course modern Muslims try to convince Westerners that the words of the Quran do not say what they obviously say. Of course Islam’s meanness to females in general is fairly obvious to anybody living in a multi-culti city if not discoverable online in the internet age. Islam can never honestly claim the moral high road.

      Islam by its Quran and “Allah” (invented in the 7th century in a twisted manner to steal credit from the time-honored actual God of the Bible) consistently promotes violence and deception against Christians, Jews and other non-Muslims. It’s a lot to wrap your head around because Islam is nothing in fact like Bible-based Christianity or the last 2,000 years of evolving Jewish morality.

      Islam therefore only seeks to borrow deceitfully from the moral compass and language of modern Judeo-Christian ethics without in fact having any ability (by its own Quran) actually to follow those ethical parameters.

      Bottom lines:
      • Islam is a claimed “religion” which is really a Muslim ideology of deception and violence, hiding behind religious imagery, waged against non-Muslims in order to bring about monolithic Islamic rule throughout the world.
      • Islam is conquest.
      • Jihad is war.
      • The slick and well-funded Muslim PR apparatus in the West, because our system of free speech allows their free expression, continually tricks and cons well-intentioned Westerners into not seeing the truth about Islam, and inferentially has Muslim troops on the ground to weight the bulk of blog comments and internet dialog in favor of falsely sanitized versions of a claimed Islam that has never been Islamic reality.

      The U.S. school system typically glosses over the Muslim conquests, torture and violence from the 7th century forward and their conquests in Europe, Asia and Africa before the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century. See, e.g., http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2854410/posts; http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/02/muslims-demand-right-of-return-to-spain
      If you visit in modern-day Spain, you’ll see mosques still standing from when Muslims conquered what became Islamic Spain (711 to 1492 A.D.) so they got that close once to a permanent ruling foothold in Europe, long before today’s technology.

      Extensive comments by many commenters under older posts of JW have details and references if the topic interests you. True peace, sister!

    • AnneM says

      Jul 14, 2014 at 8:27 am

      Because their “god allah” is simply satan the devil.

  2. Caped Crusader says

    Jul 13, 2014 at 7:18 pm

    “Prostitution is immoral in Islam”

    Well, I don’t know about anybody else. But that’s me convinced… O_O

    • bernie says

      Jul 13, 2014 at 9:18 pm

      In the Gospels, Jesus saved an adultress from being stoned to death (the story doesn’t specify whether or not she was a prostitute, it simply says that she was caught in adultery). Also, he was condemned by many people for spending time with, and even dining with, “tax-collectors, prostitutes, and other sinners.”

      • bernie says

        Jul 13, 2014 at 9:24 pm

        Plus, it’s not like the prostitutes in Iraq are like many of the ones in wealthy countries, who often don’t face any pressure into it (not that those particular ones should be hated, either). The Iraqi ones are almost 100% dirt-poor, and would likely starve to death otherwise, as the country is a desperate economic, war-torn and social shambles right now.

      • Jan Fourowls says

        Jul 13, 2014 at 10:14 pm

        Yes, I love Jesus, too! Thanks for the validation, Bernie. I was typing something similar as comment before seeing how you as well note the sharp contrast between the compassion of Jesus and the horror of Mo/Allah.

      • Billy Bob says

        Jul 14, 2014 at 1:52 pm

        That’s the difference between my religion and theirs . . . I am commanded to love all people (which does no mean accept their sin).

    • Fr. Basil says

      Jul 13, 2014 at 10:48 pm

      Can someone tell me how these mahometans tell the difference between common prostitutes and those poor women the jeyehadistas are calling to wage sexual jeyehad?

  3. Jay Boo says

    Jul 13, 2014 at 7:36 pm

    The dignity and purity of life is inherent in every human being including Muslims.

    The slave-trade religion of Islam wishes to claim exclusive ownership of dignity and purity.
    Islam wishes to play God.

  4. Daphne Donges says

    Jul 13, 2014 at 9:42 pm

    Prostitution is bad, BUT temporary ‘marriages’ are good, as long as the ‘wife’ is given restitution for the time they were married. In other words as a few words are said then prostitution is fine!

    • Jan Fourowls says

      Jul 13, 2014 at 10:41 pm

      The typical taqiyyah hypocrisy of conquering Muslims who actually follow the scriptural tenets of their “religion.” Thanks for pointing it out!

    • eib says

      Jul 14, 2014 at 4:56 pm

      Islam is profane.
      Mohammed is a false prophet.
      The lake of fire is waiting.
      All you have to do is die.

  5. bobm says

    Jul 13, 2014 at 9:43 pm

    Have I not read that men arrange overnight quickie marriages with their religiosos to quell their rapacious desires when away from the harem..?? If that ain’t prostitution…well.

    • PJG says

      Jul 14, 2014 at 6:54 am

      C’mon, prostitution requires *payment*. We are not talking about “free love” here!

  6. nacazo says

    Jul 13, 2014 at 10:59 pm

    These prostitutes were trying to bybass the pimp imams that do the mutta marriages. if they dont go thru the motions (and payments) for the pimp imams, the pimp imams get angry.

    • Jay Boo says

      Jul 13, 2014 at 11:06 pm

      That is a reasonable assumption as any considering, Muhammad pimped out kidnapped sex slaves and also pimped out Allah with claims of having revelations.

  7. No Fear says

    Jul 14, 2014 at 2:09 am

    So they kill the brothel workers so they can gain admittance into Allah’s eternal brothel called paradise.

    That makes sense. If you use that sort of logic they can be talked into doing ANYTHING to gain Allah’s eternal brothel. e.g. kill unbelievers.

    • CornHolio says

      Jul 14, 2014 at 1:47 pm

      Prostitution is a danger to political Islam, not so much as a “moral decay” issue, but as a barrier to recruitment. With dating and pre-marital sex forbidden, young men who have no marriage prospects must either go without entirely, or “strive in the cause of Allah”.

      But if there is a prostitution alternative, then the pool of mujahideen gets thinned out.

      • eib says

        Jul 14, 2014 at 4:54 pm

        Then even ironically, these women were doing God’s work.

  8. AnneM says

    Jul 14, 2014 at 8:30 am

    Yet are not the so-called “72 virgins” in the Muslim paradise also prostitutes?

    • CornHolio says

      Jul 14, 2014 at 5:17 pm

      My Qur’an slyly translates the word as “spouses”, as if to suggest that Muslimas receive a similar retinue of heavenly mates:)

      But that’s better than the apologists who try to translate “houris” as “raisins”, which kinda makes sense in a Muslim sort of way. “We shall mate them with raisins pure, most beautiful of eye”.

      (in a Homer Simpson voice: “Mmm… raisins.”)

  9. RG says

    Jul 14, 2014 at 10:32 am

    As usual, the muslim idiots have clearly inserted their heads inside their ‘attaché’ cases! SO TYPICAL!

    • onisac says

      Jul 14, 2014 at 2:19 pm

      These cult members make Adolph Hitler’s ZZ look like Cub Scouts.
      There has never been such savages known to man kind. A normal person would be much better off living with and trusting lions.

  10. onisac says

    Jul 14, 2014 at 2:11 pm

    I’d take my chances with Allah, rather then being savagely murdered.

    • eib says

      Jul 14, 2014 at 4:53 pm

      Then you die a thousand times every day you live in the Ummah.
      These women, fortunately, blessedly, die only once.

  11. eib says

    Jul 14, 2014 at 4:52 pm

    Quote:
    “So what if they were prostitutes? It’s God who judges us, after all.”
    end

    Really?
    God is closer to those prostitutes than to the Ummah.
    They will know all the mercy they were denied in life.
    God is just, and Jesus Christ, his Son, is the Redeemer!

  12. gravenimage says

    Jul 14, 2014 at 9:49 pm

    “This is the fate of any prostitution”: Jihadists murder 27 prostitutes in Iraq

    Prostitution is immoral in Islam, displeasing to Allah. Murdering prostitutes, however, is in the eyes of the jihadists a meritorious act that Allah will reward
    ……………………………..

    Very, very true.

    Christian groups have worked with prostitutes for years to get them off the street and out from under the control of pimps and human traffickers.

    But savage Mohammeds show their “moral’ opposition to prostitution by *murdering the poor women*—what other “moral” code would be so perverse?

    Whatever the evils of prostitution, they pale beside cold-blooded mass murder.

    And, as many posters have pointed out, Islam is *not* morally upright when it comes to sexual matters—they condone pedophilia, forced marriages, “temporary marriages”, polygamy, sacralized rape, and sex slavery. Garden-variety prostitution pales in comparison to these evils.

  13. Greg Robert says

    Jul 14, 2014 at 11:30 pm

     QUOTE: Of course modern Muslims try to convince Westerners that the words of the Quran do not say what they obviously say.

    Well, they don’t have the patent on that, do they?

    Religions are superstition, absolutely nothing else.

    • Mirren10 says

      Jul 15, 2014 at 5:34 pm

      QUOTE: Of course modern Muslims try to convince Westerners that the words of the Quran do not say what they obviously say.

      ”Well, they don’t have the patent on that, do they?

      Religions are superstition, absolutely nothing else”

      This article is about mohammedans **murdering** prostitutes according to the **mandates** of the filthy koran.

      Instead of engaging in witless moral equivalence, (because there are **no** religions, other than islam which mandates such things, and whose followers carry them out) put your brain in gear and make a relevant comment on the **article**.

  14. jimmi says

    Jul 15, 2014 at 6:20 pm

    so sex jihad for jihadist is a good thing… an procrastinating wives are bad…-and never forget also pedophilia, forced marriages, “temporary marriages”, polygamy…-
    while prostitution to survive in one of the world’s most torn countries is a bad thing…

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