21-year-old Nadia Murad is an escaped former Yazidi sex slave who has testified before the UN in New York to raise awareness about the ordeal of Yazidi girls. In her difficult words: “Isis ‘forced us to pray – then raped us.’”
In another address to Congress, she warned that the Middle East’s Christians, Yazidis, and other minorities will be wiped out if the Islamic State is not stopped and if these minorities are not protected.
Murad called on the Islamic community around the world to do more to denounce the Islamic State, saying that not one Muslim country has labelled the Islamic State an infidel group. She also declared that “what has been happening has been happening under the name of Islam”, and “Muslims must be the first ones to resist this.”
Her words are a poke in the eye to those who deny any connection between the Islamic State and Islam, to those who refer to the IS as an un-Islamic aberration, and to those who deny that Islamic jihad is a serious threat to homeland security, public safety and, in fact, to Western civilization.
Why is no one hearing a loud outcry from Islamic states about the atrocities of the Islamic State? Professor Bernard Haykel from the Department of Near East Studies in Princeton has it right when he indicates that the theology of the Islamic State is very old in Islam and literalist; and that it is directly linked to Wahhabism, in which violence is justified theologically and historically.
Wahhabism originated with a Sunni Muslim preacher named Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab of Arabia, who was of the Salafist tradition. His aggressive religious movement ultimately took over Arabia and became the state religion of Saudi Arabia.
Haykel further explains of al-Wahhab:
“The first Saudi State, based on this Wahhabi faith, seemed to confirm his message because of the political and military success it had throughout the 18th Century and 19th Century where it conquered most of Arabia…..Once a town was conquered he would appoint teachers to educate people in his version of the faith. He wrote a number of short books that were the basis for the teaching, books that are used by ISIS today.”
The Islamic State is not a deviation from the historic practice of Islam. It is just one of the most recent manifestations the military wing of Islamic jihad, as preached by al-Wahhab, who himself aimed to “purify” Islam by returning it to the original principles of the first three generations of the religion.
“Escaped ISIS sex slave tells Congress of horrors”, by Ryan Browne, CNN, June 21, 2016:
A former ISIS sex slave urged Congress Tuesday to more aggressively fight the terror group and offered her condolences for the massacre in Orlando, saying she’s not surprised by it.
Nadia Murad, a Yazidi who escaped captivity in 2014, told the Senate Homeland Security committee that “the USA must act. We must terminate Daesh (ISIS) and all such terror.”
“Daesh will not give up their weapons unless we force them to give up their weapons,” she testified, with the assistance of a translator. “The Yazidi people cannot wait.”Murad called on the U.S. and other countries “to establish a safe and protected zone for Iraqi and Syrian religious minorities,” which President Barack Obama has repeatedly rejected.
She also expressed her condolences for the attack in Orlando that left 49 dead but said she was not surprised it happened.
“I knew if ISIS were not stopped, they would deliver their crimes everywhere,” she told lawmakers.
Speaking about the Middle East’s Christians, Yazidis, and other minorities, she warned that “if they are not protected they will be wiped out.”
Yazidis are ethnically Kurdish members of an ancient religion who live mostly in Iraq.
Murad detailed how she and thousands of Yazidi women and girls were enslaved and raped by their ISIS captors. She recounted how six of her brothers and her mother were executed by ISIS in a single day.
Murad said she escaped to Mosul where a Muslim family helped her obtain fake Islamic identification that enabled her to escape ISIS territory.
“I was freed, but I do not (have) the feeling of the freedom because those who have committed these crimes have not been held accountable,” she said.
A UN report released last week estimated that ISIS holds about 3,500 slaves and that the terror group continues to subject women and children to sexual violence, particularly in the form of sexual slavery.
The report said ISIS’ actions “may, in some instances, amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and possibly genocide.”Secretary of State John Kerry said in March that the U.S. had determined that ISIS’ brutality constituted genocide.
With the genocide designations, Murad called on the international community to take ISIS to the international criminal court.
Murad also called on the Islamic community around the world to do more to denounce ISIS.
“What has been happening has been happening under the name of Islam,” she said. “The Muslims must be the first ones to resist this … We have not seen that Daesh have been labeled as an infidel group within Islam by any Muslim country.”….

ich says
ONLY TRUMP would say it outloud to the world leaders.
CALL THESE IDIOTS OUT if you truly believe they are not muslims.
But they dont.
They know they are true muslims.
The rest of them are Uncle toms as mayor of london calls them
Don McKellar says
Uncle Toms for Islam.
That is terrific.
Debi Brand says
Briefly here, according the established text of Qur’an and sunnah, unless one follows, in whole, sunnah of the “prophet” they are no Muslim but by their rejection of Sunnah, apostates.
Because Qur’an commands obedience to the “prophet.” And he commanded strict, stubborn clinging to his sunnah.
Therefore, the well know consensus of men of knowledge in Islam that, rejection of sunnah is rejection of Qur’an. Which makes one who does such an apostate.
charvak says
The CNN reporter is so prompt to call the poor woman a “Sex Slave” as if she earned the epithet. I had expected JW to show some discretion in this regard.
Robert Spencer says
That’s what she was. It is an unpleasant fact. It is sanctioned in the Qur’an (4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, 70:30).
citycat says
One cannot earn that epithet.
The truth must be clear. She sounds so blasé i wonder if she is a spy.
If it had not been mentioned that she was a sex slave, i might not have become suspicious.
But i could be wrong and that’s only a side note.
Ok
Gordon says
Citycat,
Think upon what she has been through. She is no doubt suffering from PTSD and likely severe depression; both of which manifest in flat aspect. Nor is she the only escapee we’ve heard from.
Gordon
citycat says
Yeah, yeah
i’m just being my suspicious self, just accepting stuff gets questioned.
Even assuming that she is truthful, she may have been led along that path, maybe not, i’m just not jumping to acceptance of anything that comes out of Islam.
Islam is a tricky devil.
Ok
Westman says
This is the sad reality of Islamic doctrine: “O Prophet! We have made lawful to thee thy wives to whom thou hast paid their dowers; and those whom thy right hand possesses out of the prisoners of war..” Quran 33:50
Islam is without a redeeming figure, like Christ, who does away with old earlier barbaric ideology and replaces it with respect for all people.
In Islamic doctrine the world is divided into two camps, believers and non-believers, in which the unbelievers may become Muslims, purchase life(jizya, a tax), be slaves, or die. The reality depends on how dominant Islam is within the society and how devout it is to fundamental Islamic doctrine.
The Quran and Sunnah of Islam is like a hand grenade. The potential for instigating destruction is always present. All it needs for detonation is to fall into the mind of a fundamentalist. This is where the motivation, which some government dhimmis cannot locate, for attacks on unbelievers originates.
mortimer says
Charvak wrote: “earned”
How does a sex SLAVE “earn” the name? A sex slave is 1) captured 2) then raped…involuntarily.
Nigel GFF says
“…She recounted how six of her brothers and her mother were executed by ISIS in a single day. …”
Think on that. Mealy mouthed language, expurgation and dissembling costs lives.
She has ‘earned’ and deserves our respect (our help wouldn’t go amiss).
Jay Boo says
charvak
Do you mean discretion toward the VICTIM of Islam —
Or discretion toward the IDEOLOGY of Islam?
charvak says
Jay Boo
I mean discretion in use of the term “Sex Slave”. As for the ISIS Mujahids the woman was surely a Sex Slave. Why should the civilized folk attach this label to her? Should we now refer to all Infidel women as Maal-e-Ghanimat (War Booty) since that is what they are from the orthodox IsIamic perspective?
Jaladhi says
Yes ISIS follows pure Islam, the one given by Mohammad and also practiced by Mohammad. Imam Obama and his cohorts in the administration are just practicing taqiyya by not calling ISIS Islamic to save them and Islam.
ISIS (or ISIL as Imam Obama calls it) is totally Islamic following Islam given by Mohammad and is pure evil and nothing but evil just like the religion itself.
Face_The_Truth says
Pure Islam is our current Muslim president’s religion!
Islamic faith requires getting help from groups like LGBT community and so-called leftist-socialists-progressives, which will ultimately make the establishment of Islam in America as defining success.
When Islam’s founder needed help, he took advantage of infidel kuffars in Arabian Peninsula too 1,400 years ago.
john spielman says
islam whether ISIS or shia brand or sunni is all evil. The reason our leaders don’t recognize it, is that they have prostituted them selves to the ruler of this dark world – Satan (allah to muslims0
Face_The_Truth says
The reason our leaders don’t recognize it is because our leaders do not want to recognize it.
Our leaders are now busy trying to militarily confront non-Muslim Russia in Eastern Europe and the Baltics as well as confront non-Muslim PRC in the South-China Sea.
Our leaders topple dictators like Bashar al’Assad and Saddam Hussein al’Tikriti in order to Islamize the entire Middle East in Saudi Arabian fashion.
citycat says
“Muslimi must be the first one to resist this”
Dream on.
Face_The_Truth says
City_Cat says: Dream on.
You’re correct.
John Marst says
Let us hope that as the Syrian Democratic Forces and even the Syrian Arab Army liberate ISIS territory, they leave no ISIS rat uninterred.
Face_The_Truth says
Our Muslim president in the White House has been resisting the plan of the U.S. Dept. of State to topple Bashar al’Assad for more than a few years.
Otherwise, ISIS would have been in Damascus by now!
LINK
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/buchanan/our-impulsive-foreign-policy-establishment-nato-russia-syria-assad-putin/
citycat says
Don’t anyone else resist it, just Muslims resist it?
The day that Muslims resist it, what’s that? More evil chaos adding to the Islamic presence.
Jerry says
This is the kind of testimony that should inspire our leaders to decisive action in dealing with islam’s bigotry and violence. And I don’t mean just bombing ISIS, I mean the domestic threat that our muslim population brings to our country. But obama and his pals are too busy making excuses for the ideology that threatens our lives, culture, and nation. Muslims are waging war against the west, with their enclaves, terrorism, lawsuits, riots, fake refugees, sharia creep, mosque building, attacking our freedoms wherever and however they can. Our current administration lacks courage and honesty when dealing with the problem of islam. It’s a murderous and hateful ideology that has inspired mass murder of our own people more than once, practically the whole world is suffering for islam. Our military is working hard overseas, some dying and wounded. Billions are spent in defending against islam and in foreign aid, and domestic aid too. The American people have sacrificed and done their part in keeping us safer by compromising their civil rights and freedoms (not to mention their safety). But still we have prominent people and leaders apologizing and lying for islam.
Despite any faults and imperfections Trump may have he alone among all the candidates had the courage to stand against the threat muslims pose to our nation. He’s done his country a great service, and I think in some measure he has helped Europe too. Many nations may resent us but I think they also look up to us too. And when they see us doing the right thing in confronting islam I believe that gives them hope. I could be wrong, somehow I don’t think so.
Hi Moe says
No you’re not wrong. Trump is an idiot but he gets the Islamic problem correct, which is certainly better than what the other idiots do – selling out.
If this situation keeps going, it will end up in the hands of the people, and rightly so.
I used to think America needed less guns, now I think you need more.
Jerry says
lol. In some ways he seems like an idiot to me too. I’m always a bit surprised when he speaks a coherent sentence. He has no compunction about contradicting himself or saying nonsensical sh*t. But he’s probably better qualified to produce jobs and he’s our best hope in dealing with islam. If I didn’t think those 2 things were possible I wouldn’t even consider voting his bombastic self into the White House.
And by the way, why was I wrong? Did I say he wasn’t an idiot?
Jerry says
Oh, forget that last line in my post. I misunderstood your double negative.
LR says
I agree….He’s sounding a bit less idiotic getting closer to the conventions, but he has been somewhat right on the Jihad/Islam thingy.
People in this country need to learn to dialogue and argue again without demonozing each other. Our divisions can ruin us before anything else will.
Jerry says
People in this country need to learn to dialogue and argue again without demonozing each other.
More specifically, the Left needs to stop demonizing those that speak truthfully about islam’s humanitarian crimes and jihad agenda. I rarely hear the Right resorting to cheap ad hominem to demonize muslims, the truth is far more damning. Seriously, what could be more demonizing than telling the truth about their faith that calls for the murder & subjugation of all non-muslims for a god no better than a demon? or speaking truthfully about the fact that they’re doing it? How does one “demonize” a people and faith like this? By speaking kindly of them?
Westman says
The [UN] report said ISIS’ actions “may, in some instances, amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and possibly genocide.”
MAY!! IN SOME INSTANCES!! What a corrupt, mealy-mouthed, money-sucking, OIC butt-kissing, club of parasites the UN has become.
Hi Moe says
Yes and it’s run by islamic states who sponsor terror. The UN is now completely perverted.
Bob says
Agreed – the UN & the muslim-dominated Security Council will now do nothing!
Ralph Statum says
Orlando looks like a perfect set up for Mohammedan’s to take over America. Swamp the land with Jihadis, and then disarm their victims so they cannot shoot back. By the way this same game plan has been played out repeatedly in the history of Mohammedanism, in fact that is how Mohammedanism has advanced worldwide.
What we are told is that all the while the Mohammedan was murdering, he was yelling “Allah Akbar.” In other words he was worshipping his idol Allah, yelling that his idol is great. As Psalm 115 points out, whom or what you worship shapes everything.
An idol is an invention of the human mind. There is only One True God, all others are imposters, fakes and frauds; they are not actually God. This is as true of Allah as all the other idols of our day.
Psalm 115 points out that the idol transforms the worshipper into the image of the image he is worshipping. So those who worship the idol Allah progressively become like that idol.
Consider the man who established that idol worship – Mohammed. One former follower, who left this idolatry, set out the following challenge. Ali Sina offered $50,000 to anyone who could prove the following statement wrong based on Islamic texts. “Muhammad is a narcissist, a pedophile, a mass murderer, a terrorist, a misogynist, a lecher, a cult leader, a madman, a rapist, a torturer, an assassin and a looter.” The reward has gone unclaimed. What is really eye opening is that the Quran states that Allah “had declared him [Mohammed] to be the ‘excellent pattern of conduct’ for mankind (Quran 33:21)” 1
So as Mohammed did, that is what faithful followers of Mohammedan will emulate. And we let these people into our country? What insanity! Contrast this with the worship of the One True God.
The Worship Which God prescribed is spelled out in Exodus 25. The details of the Tabernacle’s construction would pattern in a temporal way, what God would one day do permanently through Jesus Christ. The Tabernacle would become a visible model of how we come to God through faith in Jesus Christ.
We must never forget that we will become like what we worship.
Jerry says
Swamp the land with Jihadis, and then disarm their victims so they cannot shoot back.
If “despicable Hillary” could have her way that’s exactly how she would have it. It makes more sense to the weak left to attack our own liberties than to condemn the violent ideology destroying the world’s peace. Have you ever even once heard a prominent leftist admit that islam’s doctrinal violence might be a motivating factor? I haven’t and I’m not joking, either. This kind of acquiescence in the face of religious gangsterism does not help us at all. On the contrary their diffidence and denials only enhance the threat and increase the human rights abuses. This to me is borderline criminal, where moral and legal responsibility is shirked resulting in death and avoidable suffering of others. I speak out, I give money, I share the truth about islam. I would hope and expect that our leaders would do their part to act honestly and with due diligence against islam’s supremacist ideology of hate and murder. Man, have I been disappointed … except TRUMP!
Jack Diamond says
“forced us to pray then raped us” echoing the testimony of other Yazidi girls about their captivity:
“I kept telling him it hurts — please stop,” said the girl, whose body is so small an adult could circle her waist with two hands. “He told me that according to Islam he is allowed to rape an unbeliever. He said that by raping me, he is drawing closer to God,” she said in an interview alongside her family in a refugee camp here, to which she escaped after 11 months of captivity…“Every time that he came to rape me, he would pray,” said F, a 15-year-old girl…“He kept telling me this is ibadah,” she said, using a term from Islamic scripture meaning worship. “He said that raping me is his prayer to God. I said to him, ‘What you’re doing to me is wrong, and it will not bring you closer to God.’ And he said, ‘No, it’s allowed. It’s halal’.”
“for the Yazidis, there was no chance to pay a tax known as jizya to be set free, “unlike the Jews and Christians.” …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 spoils.”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/08/he-said-that-raping-me-is-his-prayer-to-god
“We have not seen that Daesh have been labeled as an infidel group within Islam by any Muslim country.” With good reason. Nor have they been much fought by Muslim countries lest it cause uprisings at home. The Islamic State is Islam Naked, Islam without the mask, the Islam of the first Islamic State, the Islam of Muhammad, the model of conduct. It’s raping children as worship. It’s murder as prayer. It’s terror as devotion. It’s a vision of Hell we must not look at too closely or we might learn more than we want to learn. Eyes wide shut, into the future.
Angemon says
Nor have we seen any muslim nation taking a coherent, consistent, decisive action against it – not even the Iranians, who, as shiites, are, if not at the top of the islamic state’s “to kill” list, damn well near it.
Face_The_Truth says
Sexual slavery of non-Muslim females in Islamic households is a very pious — over a thousand-year-old — tradition.
So, why would world’s Muslims condemn sexual slavery of non-Muslim females?
Only American and British Christian governments constantly deny that forced sexual slavery of non-Muslim females has anything to do with Islam.
Ali Bey says
After this horrendous report , what else can be discussed?
Face_The_Truth says
Ali_Bey says: After this horrendous report, what else can be discussed?
Our elected govt. official can discuss now how great the Islamic contribution is to the world in general and America in particular.
If you don’t believe me, please ask House Speaker Paul Davis Ryan!
Marty says
IS is the most devout sunni muslim state on Earth.
Let’s face it, the Saudis have gone soft ever since Cameron
put them on the UN “human rights” committee.
Only a handful of beheadings, stonings & floggings each week.
Tommy says
Immagine her nightmares! Poor woman, thoughts and prayers for you and others…
Face_The_Truth says
She is very lucky that she is alive and free now.
Not many sex-slaves of devout Muslims have her luck in today’s world.
Jay Boo says
Billboard
“Not one Muslim country has labeled the Islamic State an infidel group”
Face_The_Truth says
When Muslims will be in several millions in total America population, not even America will label the Islamic State an infidel group.
Norwegian says
I think I have seen her before in a documentary…
This made my eyes fill up with tears, so did the documentary I saw.
When is it going to be enough of this?! I want the empty eyes of the people of Europa to light up again. Light up with hate and rage…
I say…lets end this 1400 year old war once and for all. Get the muslims out of Europe and let the christians and relaining yazidis in. Then…lets burn the rest of it to ashes…erease islam and their pathetic excuse of a “culture” from the universe forever…
🙁
LR says
Ralph,
“Orlando looks like a perfect set up for Mohammedan’s to take over America. Swamp the land with Jihadis, and then disarm their victims so they cannot shoot back.”…
Well, Americans won’t let themselves be disarmed.
Interesting development after Orlando massacre…The Pink Pistols gun club is growing.
michael says
We stand with the abused people of this evil regime. We offer hope to the women who have suffered being treated like sex objects these are the real refugees The West should protect them and reject economic migrants from Africa and the Middle East
SuchindranathAiyerS says
As Nadia correctly observes, not one Islamic country has said that Daesh (ISIL ot Obama and ISIS to you) is infidel or apostate. This is because they are the acme and very model of Islamic perfection laid out by Mahomet in the Quran and the Hadiths for all Moslems to follow,
“Wahabism”, “Salafism” “Radicalism” or “Extremism” as it is now used, is a euphemism for Sunni Islam. Isis (Daesh) is merely one more regiment of Islamic students (Taliban) who study the Quran and the Hadiths and then set out to implement their “religion”.Islam is a barbaric, extremist, fascist, racist, male supremacist, lebensraum ideology masquerading as a “religion”. Any Moslem who refuses to convert to a decent, real spiritually uplifting religion should be eradicated.
The word “Jihad” is mentioned 164 times in Quran and 199 times in Hadith. The word “Jihad” has two meanings, namely “struggle within mind” and“warfare with sword” (jihad bil saif). Both are valid as per the context in Quran/Hadith. However the former refers to Mahomet’s introspection at Medina, while the latter refers to Mahomet’s subsequent practice of genocide, massacres, mass rapes and sexual slavery at Mecca. The Caliphs and the Hadiths are quite clear that what happened later (Mecca) has greater force and supercedes Medina, and so it is that Moslems have practiced Jeehad bil Saif ever since. But, as commanded by Mahomet in the Quran, they practice deception (Taqiya, Tawriya Muruna, Kitman etc) and fool the willing that Jeehad is only that of Medina. Mahomet commanded that every true Mahamutton must perform Jihad. The purest Islam is to follow in the footsteps of Mahomet. Mahomet sanctioned mass rapes, genocides, vandalism and free for all slavery and sexual slavery when he performed Jeehad on Mecca
After the Aryas (People of Dharma who adhered to Brahmin Law) of Asia Minor, South Asia, South East Asia and the Slavs, the Poles and the Iberians of Europe had fought Islam to a stand still at great cost in blood, treasure and territory, Pax Britannica put Islam in its place undoing the Mehdi, dismantling the Ottomans and pacifying the Middle East, South and South East Asia and much of the World disregarding the strident protests of Khilafat Gandhi. Poliically, it was Gandhi who really enabled and fostered the notion of India as an Islamic Nation in line with the agenda of Mahomet, which led to partition.. However, Pax Americana has revived the Jeehad bil Saif of Islam with White Hice and NATO decision and opinion makers since Richard Nixon on Petro Dollar pay rolls, what with Clinton bombing Belgrade for 84 days to hand over Bosnia and Kosovo to the Caliphate and with Bush and Blair deflecting anger over 9/11 from the perpetrators, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, to what was a secular and modern Iraq. Obama has thrown Syria, Libya and Europe to the Wolves.
US Greed and Islam’s hate made the perfect consort dancing together since Nixon, Kissinger and Sheikh Yamani forged the US-NATO-Sunni axis. The Islam Mahomet created was born from his selling his soul to Satan to sate his hatred with revenge on Muqqa. The US became partners in crime as it submitted to the oil well betwixt the mammoth thighs of Mammon.
Global terrorism was made possible by the US-NATO-Sunni Axis through the good offices of Pakistan. It was Petro Dollars led by the Tent of Saud that fashioned both the US-NATO-Sunni Axis and Madrassas all over the World to preach the Quran and the Hadiths. Zia Ul Haq of Pakistan and Zia Ur Rahman of Bangla Desh proved more loyal to Allah than Mahomet.
It was Pakistan and the US that created Al Qaeda (the base) to train Taliban (student of the Quran and the Hadiths) from all over the World to practice (Jeehad) their faith (Islam).
After 9/11, the US helped their allies Al Qaeda and Taliban to escape through the Tora Bora caves to safe haven in their other ally Pakistan and distracted World attention to Iraq from the 9/11 perpetrators, Pakistan and the Tent of Saud.
Regiments of Taliban, therafter, took many names from Jaish e Mohammed, to Harkat ul Mujahideen, to Boko Haram to Al Shebab to Daesh (ISIL to Obama but ISIS to you) and elements of Al Qaeda carried on the good work of developing good terrorists to bring Democracy(aka regime change chaos and misery) to the World on US behalf and Islam (mass gang rapes, sex slavery, genocide, vandalism, and so on) to the World on Mahomet’s behalf.