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Yazidi women bought back from Islamic State after being raped in public and sold to jihadis

Apr 9, 2015 5:46 pm By Robert Spencer

yazidi-members-released-by-isisAccording to Islamic law, Muslim men can take “captives of the right hand” (Qur’an 4:3, 4:24, 33:50). The Qur’an says: “O Prophet! Lo! We have made lawful unto thee thy wives unto whom thou hast paid their dowries, and those whom thy right hand possesseth of those whom Allah hath given thee as spoils of war” (33:50). 4:3 and 4:24 extend this privilege to Muslim men in general, as does this passage. “Certainly will the believers have succeeded: They who are during their prayer humbly submissive, and they who turn away from ill speech, and they who are observant of zakah, and they who guard their private parts except from their wives or those their right hands possess, for indeed, they will not be blamed” (Qur’an 23:1-6).

They’re just meat to them. Slaves. Using them in public? No problem — they have no rights and no dignity. They are only free today because they were bought back — which will only fuel more kidnappings and ransom demands. It is a staple of Islamic law: here is a salient passage on this issue from a Shafi’i manual of Islamic law:

When an adult male is taken captive, the caliph considers the interests … (of Islam and the Muslims) and decides between the prisoner’s death, slavery, release without paying anything, or ransoming himself in exchange for money or for a Muslim captive held by the enemy. (Umdat al-Salik o9.14)

A revered Islamic jurist, Al-Mawardi, agrees with ‘Umdat al-Salik:

As for the captives, the amir has the choice of taking the most beneficial action of four possibilities: the first, to put them to death by cutting their necks; the second, to enslave them and apply the laws of slavery regarding their sale or manumission; the third, to ransom them in exchange for goods or prisoners; and fourth, to show favor to them and pardon them. (Al-Ahkam As-Sultaniyyah (The Laws of Islamic Governance), 4.5)

“Iraq: Yazidi girls ‘raped in public’ and sold to Isis fighters before release,” by Gianluca Mezzofiore, International Business Times, April 9, 2015:

Yazidi girls were snatched from their mothers, sold to IS fighters, tortured and even raped in public by more than two or three jihadists at a time before being freed by the Islamic State (Isis) in northern Iraq, according to harrowing details recounted after their release.

IS released 216 members of the Yazidi minority who were captured by the extremist group in the dramatic Sinjar offensive of July 2014 and brought them to the border with Kurdish-held Kirkuk, in Humayria village. Most of the hostages were old women and men, but the group also included some middle-aged women and 55 male and female children.

According to Tom Robinson of the Rise Foundation, which works with refugees in Kurdistan, the hostages were released after their freedom was paid for.

“This is happening quite a lot. A great deal of money has gone into buying back captured women and children,” Robinson said.

The Yazidis are considered “devil worshippers” by the Sunni extremist group, and have lived in small communities scattered throughout northwest Iraq, northwest Syria and southeast Turkey.

Ziyad Shammo Aladany, who works with the local NGO Yazda to offer assistance and first aid to the persecuted Yazidis, exclusively told IBTimes UK that after their kidnapping in Sinjar, the boys and girls were taken away by force from the mothers and “distributed among houses” in Mosul and Tal Afar, where they stayed for five months.

“They were treated very badly, they were forced to convert to Islam and pray, and say the Shahada [Islamic creed professing belief in the oneness of God and its prophet Mohammed]. They also gave them lectures about Islam,” he said.

Some were treated in a good way, but others were beaten and tortured for refusing to comply with the jihadist group.

Raped in public

“The girls were dragged away from their mothers. If the mothers pleaded them not to give away their daughters, they were beaten and tortured,” Shammo said. The girls were also given as prizes to IS fighters and Arab tribes loyal to IS in Ramadi after a military victory, such as the one in Sinjar.

The activist struggles to find the words to describe the horrific experience the Yazidi girls had to endure under IS captivity.

“If you come and sit with the girls you will find different stories from girl to girl. A lot of them have been sold to ISIS fighters, they have been raped in […] public, and by more than two or three people at a time,” Shammo said. “They were tortured, beaten and subject to any type of violence.”

Another NGO worker who is offering assistance to the Yazidis, and has asked to remain anonymous, told IBTimes UK that their mental state is “unstable” after repeated rape and torture.

Tens of thousands of Yazidis were forced to flee to Iraqi Kurdistan or were stranded on the nearby Mount Sinjar when the jihadist group stormed the mostly Yazidi villages in northern Iraq in July last year. Those who stayed were given a simple option: convert to Islam or die….

Reports that hundreds of Yazidi women and girls from the Iraqi tribe were forced into slavery by IS emerged after their abduction. A video showing IS fighters laughing as they discuss the trade of Yazidi women emerged in November.

The jihadist group admitted in the English-language Dabiq magazine to enslaving and selling Yazidi women and children, claiming the horrifying trade is justifiable on religious grounds.

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  1. Neil Jennison says

    Apr 9, 2015 at 5:51 pm

    The Religion of Peace ! Warms the heart!

  2. sound awake says

    Apr 9, 2015 at 6:22 pm

    yeah, but dont forget about the “less than loving Christians” that obama was complaining about…

  3. American says

    Apr 9, 2015 at 6:31 pm

    And ISIS calls the Yazidis “devil worshippers”. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black…

    • Champ says

      Apr 9, 2015 at 6:46 pm

      Exactly, American! …good point.

    • Ed says

      Apr 9, 2015 at 7:18 pm

      In a way it is true, they both are devil worshipers.

      • Linda Rivera says

        Apr 10, 2015 at 10:24 am

        How can you say such a horrible thing? Stop your hateful slander of the good Yazidi people!

        The Yazidis are a good, decent, peaceful people. They are Kurds, but are not Muslims. Although they are not Muslims, the Muslim Kurds have been doing everything in their power to rescue the Yazidi sex slaves.

      • Linda Rivera says

        Apr 10, 2015 at 10:32 am

        I’m horrified at your terrible, undeserved insults of the Yazidis. Please watch this video. The Yazidis are human beings that God loves.

        Yazidi Member of Iraqi Parliament collapses in tears after calling upon World to Rescue the Yazidis

      • Mirren10 says

        Apr 10, 2015 at 11:24 am

        Ed says;

        ‘In a way it is true, they both are devil worshipers.”

        Not really.

        The Yazidis are monotheists,[26] believing in God as creator of the world, which he has placed under the care of seven holy beings or angels, the chief of whom is Melek Taus, the Peacock Angel. The Peacock Angel, as world-ruler, causes both good and bad to befall individuals, and this ambivalent character is reflected in myths of his own temporary fall from God’s favor, before his remorseful tears extinguished the fires of his hellish prison and he

        was reconciled with God.

        This belief builds on Sufi mystical reflections on the angel Iblis, who proudly refused to violate monotheism by worshipping Adam and Eve despite God’s expressed command to do so.[27] Because of this connection to the Sufi Iblis tradition, some followers of other monotheistic religions of the region equate the Peacock Angel with their own unredeemed evil spirit Satan,[28][29][30][31] which has incited centuries of persecution of the Yazidis as “devil worshippers.” Persecution of Yazidis has continued in their home communities within the borders of modern Iraq, under fundamentalist Sunni Muslim revolutionaries. Wiki.

  4. Frosty says

    Apr 9, 2015 at 6:53 pm

    I’m not commenting on this post but wondered whether anyone had seen the Salon piece about Aayan Hirsi Ali and what you all thoguht of it?

  5. Jaladhi says

    Apr 9, 2015 at 7:12 pm

    Islam converts human beings into demons as ISIS is showing every day! Yet the Western lefty liberal media, academia and POTUS don’t get it!! Shame!!

  6. Wellington says

    Apr 9, 2015 at 7:34 pm

    Among other reasons to despise the founder of Islam and pay him no respect is that he sanctioned rape and was himself a rapist. About no other major religious and ethical founder, for instance Jesus, Buddha, Zoroaster, Confucius and Lao-Tzu, can this even remotely be said.

    Until Mohammed is looked upon as execrable by the Western population at large (including by the still clueless Western elites), then to the extent that he isn’t will Islam still get a pass it so richly does not deserve. Put another way, if the future does not belong to those who properly characterize Mohammed for the fraud and pervert that he was, contra of course Obama’s idiotic take on Mohammed when speaking before the UN, then precisely to that extent will mankind, and especially the West, still remain in deep trouble.

    • Joe Shmo says

      Apr 9, 2015 at 9:48 pm

      Ultimately, this is one of the ways forward. I try as much as possible to inform people of the truth of Islam and Mohammad as I’m sure everyone here does. I still sometimes hit a wall, but i always just tell people I’m talking to look it up for themselves. The only thing to do is to keep plugging away and pick your moments and judge when someone is open to listen. One does get sick of the “there’s awful things in all religions though.” You can always answer that in various ways which keeps it interesting I suppose…

      • ArcadiaP says

        Apr 9, 2015 at 10:52 pm

        Want to get people to open their eyes then have them go to Dr. Bill Warner (You Tube) and watch his educational video on Islam and they will quickly see for themselves the real history and truth about Islam. He is a scientist and atheist and presents facts that will knock you over.

      • ManchesterLad says

        Apr 10, 2015 at 4:33 am

        Agreed. Education is the only enemy of Islam we have in the West available to us ‘normal’ people without privileged access to the media..

        It is hard in the UK though, where the fascist left have made it a criminal offence to tell the truth about Islam (they call it “hate speech”, without a trace or irony).

        I work for the public sector, so would lose my job instantly and become unemployable if I were to step over the line as far as honestly explaining what Islam is and stands for. I do constantly test the waters with comments such as “that will be that religion of peace again!” and try to challenge people wherever I can.

        Softly,softly catchee monkey!

        Of course, I think we do not really have time for the softly, softly approach. But I do not want to risk being killed or my family being attacked or killed. The British police would do nothing to protect a ‘racist’ who truthfully states facts. Once I came ‘out’ there would be no going back and I would have to move away from the area I live in.

        • harbidoll says

          Apr 10, 2015 at 5:39 am

          Europe know the history of Mongolian/Khans invasions & tell them to Wiki Tamberlan who was 1 of the Very successful invaders. The Boston bombers Mum named her kid Tamberlan! She was delusional (arnt All muslims) & her boys were practicing a gentle form of invasion jihad. Gangus killed over 40 Milllion & used bio-weapons (Bu. plague )! Nothing has changed!

  7. Jay Airahs says

    Apr 9, 2015 at 7:57 pm

    Muslim men worldwide symbolically allow themselves to be raped the same way that Muhammad raped nine year old Aisha every time they go to pray and ‘assume the position’.

    Muhammad came up with Qur’an 4:3, 4:24, 33:50, for Muslim men then and now to be able to find someone else to rape in a trickle down process in order that no one would call them fagheaded Muslims.

  8. gravenimage says

    Apr 9, 2015 at 8:18 pm

    Kidnapping, rape, abuse, torture, forced conversion, ransoming of victims, murder—all of this unmitigated evil “is justifiable on religious grounds” for Muslims.

    God, I hate Islam.

    • Gary says

      Apr 9, 2015 at 8:34 pm

      I can love the person…. A Muslim. But yes, I agree with you. I too hate Islam.

      I’ve grown sick of their “belief system.” It’s depressing reading day after day the crap these thugs are doing to women & children. It’s straight from the pit of Hell! Demons carry out such vile evil.

      How can any sane person follow Muhammad?!! He was a madman!! In the same vain of Hitler!

      One man – Muhammad- ‘claiming to have been given a revelation from god.”

      …….And millions believe and follow his line of crap?!

      Unbelievable!

    • Jay Airahs says

      Apr 9, 2015 at 9:56 pm

      gravenimage,
      So you think that Muslim men are behaving badly, well just look at what I found at liberal leaning MSN discovered about ultra-Orthodox Jewish men.

      SEATING NEAR A WOMAN
      http://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/aboard-flights-conflicts-over-seat-assignments-and-religion/ar-AAaDM2n

      Quote from article: “Francesca Hogi, 40, had settled into her aisle seat for the flight from New York to London when the man assigned to the adjoining window seat arrived and refused to sit down. He said his religion prevented him from sitting beside a woman who was not his wife. Irritated but eager to get underway, she eventually agreed to move.”

      Since his religion was not Muslim — MSN saw it as newsworthy that ultra-Orthodox Jewish men would expect special seating.

      • Western Canadian says

        Apr 9, 2015 at 10:41 pm

        And yet another muslim grasps pathetically at a weak and pathetic straw. Gee, it must be a day of the week with the letter ‘y’ in it.

      • ManchesterLad says

        Apr 10, 2015 at 4:36 am

        Well agreed, up to a point, what an idiot.

        If he had raped her, sold her into slavery, masturbated on all the small children in the passenger cabin and then blown up the plane…

        Then you would have a point.

      • Mirren10 says

        Apr 10, 2015 at 11:19 am

        An interesting article; I had no idea some ultra-orthodox Jews were so bigoted.

        However, no one group of people has the monopoly on religiously inspired idiocy.

        The airline should simply have kicked him off the plane.

        And, as someone noted above, he was behaving like a dickhead, but he wasn’t threatening to blow up the plane.

        • Jay Airahs says

          Apr 10, 2015 at 6:16 pm

          I was being a little sarcastic about mocking his behavior.
          The main point I was trying to make was the double standard in the new media’s reporting.
          Had a Muslim done the same thing the news media either wouldn’t have touched it or they would have berated the lady for her Islamophobia.

  9. Gary says

    Apr 9, 2015 at 8:20 pm

    What these ISIS thugs do is pure evil…..

    They would defend their actions as….. “Sharia law”

    • Theft is punishable by amputation of the right hand (above).
    • Criticizing or denying any part of the Quran is punishable by death.
    • Criticizing or denying Muhammad is a prophet is punishable by death.
    • Criticizing or denying Allah, the moon god of Islam is punishable by death.
    • A Muslim who becomes a non-Muslim is punishable by death.
    • A non-Muslim who leads a Muslim away from Islam is punishable by death.
    • A non-Muslim man who marries a Muslim woman is punishable by death.
    • A man can marry an infant girl and consummate the marriage when she is 9 years old.
    • Girls’ clitoris should be cut (per Muhammad’s words in Book 41, Kitab Al-Adab, Hadith 5251).
    • A woman can have 1 husband, but a man can have up to 4 wives; Muhammad can have more.
    • A man can unilaterally divorce his wife but a woman needs her husband’s consent to divorce.
    • A man can beat his wife for insubordination.
    • Testimonies of four male witnesses are required to prove rape against a woman.
    • A woman who has been raped cannot testify in court against her rapist(s).
    • A woman’s testimony in court, allowed only in property cases, carries half the weight of a man’s.
    • A female heir inherits half of what a male heir inherits.
    • A woman cannot drive a car, as it leads to fitnah (upheaval).
    • A woman cannot speak alone to a man who is not her husband or relative.
    • Meat to be eaten must come from animals that have been sacrificed to Allah – i.e., be Halal.
    • Muslims should engage in Taqiyya and lie to non-Muslims to advance Islam.

    Yet President Obama continues to chide “Curtain Christians” on how their response to such evil is “Un-loving & Un-Christian like.”

    Yeah, these “Curtain Christians” are defending the defenseless! When will President Obama come to his senses and do likewise?!

    One things for sure…..

    He’ll some day stand before God Almighty and give an account for his actions.

    • citycat says

      Apr 10, 2015 at 1:04 am

      Yeah, like the rapee who who resists or objects is “un-loving and un-Christian like”
      She should turn the other cheek
      So he means everyone on Earth should surrender to Islam.
      But what of non- Christians, that is not in their philosophy.
      Hindus, Sikhs, Satanists, Pagans, maybe the Jews and Buddhists too, would not turn the other cheek, nor have, obscuring reality, a fog made up of outta context traitorous mush such as the concept of “un-loving & un-Christian”.
      He’s having a go at Christian?

  10. citycat says

    Apr 9, 2015 at 11:44 pm

    Satan sure gets about.
    The muslims are obsessed with Satan.
    The muslims say that the yazidi god “Peacock Angel” also is Satan.
    Satan is their holy excuse to acquire Islamic peace, ie sexual peace for male muslims
    Looks like colonel Gadaffi was right
    “you’re all reincarnations of dogs”

  11. Westman says

    Apr 9, 2015 at 11:47 pm

    Just in case anyone thinks this slavery business is just the ISIS and Boko Haram whackos:

    “Today, too, if there’s a war between us and the infidels, we’ll take slaves. The ruling on slavery hasn’t expired and is eternal. We’ll take slaves and we’ll bring them to the world of Islam and have them stay with Muslims. We’ll guide them, make them Muslims and then return them to their countries” –Iran’s Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi

    He didn’t mention that they would be “slightly used” before being returned.

    This is the country we negotiate with?

  12. Turbo says

    Apr 10, 2015 at 12:55 am

    Muslims are proving again, clearly why the Crusades were ever necessary to begin with. It’s high time for another round of them.

    The men who should be allowed to protect these women from these islamic savages should be provided arms to the teeth and helped by any and all available mercenaries.

  13. particolor says

    Apr 10, 2015 at 6:57 am

    Islam is a Contagious Disease ! 🙁

  14. duh_swami says

    Apr 10, 2015 at 7:07 am

    The primitive intellect functions best in the arena’s of sex and or violence…
    Islam is a tailor made religion for the primitive intellect, and they want to rule the world in Allah’s name… “Primitive intellect’ is the answer to the question of why converts quickly become jihadists. And why jihadists are capable of the most evil and vile acts conceivable….

  15. Screeminmeeme says

    Apr 10, 2015 at 8:08 am

    ”The Yazidis are considered “devil worshippers” by the Sunni extremist group, ”

    if ever there was a group representative of the devil’s work it’s ISIS. Their unspeakable and ruthless attacks on inoocent people…especially on thousands of children….. must not be tolerated by a civilized world.

  16. Ranaji says

    Apr 11, 2015 at 9:53 pm

    Who is arming these terrorists.?Why the world is silent over these atrocities?

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