“If IS has been militarily eradicated who is hiding the more than 1,000 Yazidis? Who are they being bought from? And why are those traders not being investigated?”
Good questions. Yet no answers appear to be forthcoming. Would answering them be “Islamophobic”?
Hostage-taking is sanctioned in Islamic law and subject to particular rules: “As for the captives, the amir [ruler] 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 and manumission; the third, to ransom them in exchange for goods or prisoners; and fourth, to show favor to them and pardon them. Allah, may he be exalted, says, ‘When you encounter those [infidels] who deny [the Truth=Islam] then strike [their] necks’ (Qur’an sura 47, verse 4)” — Al-Mawardi, al-Ahkam as-Sultaniyyah (The Laws of Islamic Governance).
“Yazidis still negotiating return of kidnapped women, children,” by Saman Dawod, Al-Monitor, July 6, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
…According to the Kidnapped Yazidis Rescue Office based in the city of Dahok in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, around 2,800 Yazidis were kidnapped by IS and other extremist factions in Syria.
Ali Hussein al-Khansuri, who helped save dozens of Yazidi women and children, told Al-Monitor that rescue operations, which often involve buying back the kidnapped, are still ongoing, in particular in Idlib where Yazidi women and children are still held by IS and extremist factions. He said that the process of buying and selling Yazidis has turned into a trade, and that some Yazidis are sold several times in exchange for higher amounts.
He recounted how his cousin Aziza was brought back home at the beginning of the year. The phone messages exchanged show the purchase process and details of the delivery of the agreed amount. The parties to this sale agreed that $25,000 would be handed over upon Aziza’s release and $15,000 would be paid a month later.
The messages also indicate that a mediator would go to the village of Abu Hassan, also called al-Baqan, near the Syrian Hajin area to pick up Aziza. The family was told not to contact another mediator to try reduce the total price of $40,000.
“Aziza was bought back after the amount agreed upon with IS was paid,” Khansuri said. “She went back home to the Kurdistan Region after being handed over [to the family] by the Kurdish-led autonomous administration in northeastern Syria.”
The media officer of the Kidnapped Yazidis Rescue Office, Maysar al-Adani, told Al-Monitor that they seek to free Yazidis kidnapped by IS through communication networks with mediators. The office opened at the beginning of October 2014…
Barakat Isa, a Yazidi media figure, believes that the buying and selling of the Yazidis has become a source of income for several factions and terrorist groups that are not affiliated with IS, in collaboration with Arab tribes in Iraq and Syria. He noted that the prevailing chaos on the Iraqi-Syrian border — amid a lack of control and supervision on the Iraqi side — has encouraged human trafficking. He added that some IS members have been benefitting from this lucrative trade since the establishment of IS in Syria and Iraq until this day.
“If IS has been militarily eradicated who is hiding the more than 1,000 Yazidis? Who are they being bought from? And why are those traders not being investigated,” Isa concluded.
Keith O says
How in hell can someone hide over a thousand women and children??
The shear logistics of moving, hiding, feeding etc. This is not the actions of a couple of stray ISIS thugs.
This takes planning and co-ordination.
mortimer says
Islam is an evil cult. Negotiating for the return of these captives would not be necessary if they were decent people.
One wonders how many millions of families have been deprived of their loved ones by this vicious and heartless ideology.
Keith O says
Probably more than Nazism and Communism combined!
Phil says
This is part of their culture and religion in this area.
revereridesagain says
Oh right, that “traditional” culture that’s supposed to be so “superior” to that of the West.
Walter Sieruk says
As for those brutal, cruel and vile ISIS jihadist /Muslims kidnapping Yazidis girls
and women and using them as sex slaves. This actually started with the founder and prophet of Islam, Muhammad . Who all Muslims look to as an example of how to behave. It’s revealed in the book JESUS AND THE JIHADIS: CONFRONTING THE RAGE OF ISIS by the Christian authors Graig A. Evans and Jeremiah J. Johnson For on page 124 it informs the reader about Muhammad that that he “Mohammad endorsed enslavement of all types: he personally owned two ”Black slaves… ” he endorsed sex-slavery as a gift from Allah, and enjoyed offering sex-slaves as gifts…” Further on the very next page it also exposes that “Islam has enslaved more people than any other culture.”
Walter Sieruk says
Those ,vicious and violent jihadists thugs who makeup that jihad entity ISIS are actually putting in to the practice ,with all their ruthless vile actions of kidnapping and raping Yazidis girls and woman with much brutal and cruel Islamic misogyny .
Those malicious jihadists who make up ISIS are real Muslims. Nevertheless, there are some who might , understandably, wonder and then ask “Just how can those jihadists of ISIS ,being so very religious , also at the time also be so very malice-filled ,unfeeling harsh and unconscionably cruel ? “ The answer to that question is found in the Bible. For the Bible teaches that there are some people who are extremely heartless, cold, callous and dangerous because they have had “their conscience seared with a hot iron.” First Timothy 4:2. [ K.J.V.] In this case of the members of ISIS this “hot iron” is Islam.
Just Venting says
The answers for why this continues will be found at the end of the money trail. I suspect that actual existing governments are involved and get a hefty piece of the action. Also, how are the UN, Amnesty, and various other groups involved in this?
gravenimage says
Amnesty International *has* been speaking out. Here is just one article:
“Iraq: Yezidi survivors of horrific abuse in IS captivity neglected by international community”
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/10/iraq-yezidi-survivors-of-horrific-abuse-in-is-captivity-neglected-by-international-community/
I don’t agree with them on some matters, but the idea that Amnesty International is involved in slave trading is just calumny. Citations?
mortimer says
Islam has caused so much grief not only to Muslims themselves but to the world. It’s a complete pack of lies. Islam has wasted time, money and lives its quest for supremacism. Islam is a ruinous, costly blight on the world.
It should not be necessary to have lawyers and the courts pursuing to get these loved ones back to their grieving families.
How can a decent person remain a Muslim.
revereridesagain says
They are terrified of death and long for and will do anything to assure an afterlife. It’s not exactly an uncommon fixation. It’s just worse and more corrupt with Islam.
mortimer says
Yes, Muslims believe the most obviously stupid book in history is the direct words of Allah.
gravenimage says
Syria: Yazidis still negotiating return of over 1,000 kidnapped women and children held by Muslims
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Just horrifying, but not surprising.
More:
“If IS has been militarily eradicated who is hiding the more than 1,000 Yazidis? Who are they being bought from? And why are those traders not being investigated?”
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Plenty of “ordinary” Muslims believe in keeping Infidel victims as sex slaves, as well.
When ISIS first seized Yezidi and Christian girls and women as sex slaves, there were inquiries from as far afield as the Gulf kingdoms and Muslims in the West to buy the victims.
“Islamic State sex slaves auctioned off in UK/US ally Saudi Arabia”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/09/islamic-state-sex-slaves-auctioned-off-in-ukus-ally-saudi-arabia
“UK: Convert to Islam wanted to buy 9-year-old slave girl”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/02/uk-convert-to-islam-wanted-to-buy-9-year-old-slave-girl
Patrick B. Ludwig says
You will find these poor souls in Saudi Barbaria and other Gulf States to where they have been sold off as sex slaves.
The USofA will prevent their return – fearing to alienate it’s “allies”.
Virginia says
Yes. Politics in the way of humanity once again.
gravenimage says
The US is not preventing this–but they are not doing nearly enough to stop it, either.
mortimer says
Eli, where are you on this? Aren’t you going to tell us how you as an ISIS-supporter approve of abducting children and abusing them?
gravenimage says
Good questions, Mortimer.
OLD GUY says
Muslim slave trade? Black lives matter pay attention. The muslim islamic ruled countries are the leaders of the slave trade world wide and have been for centuries. You should be protesting in front of the Mosque’s and Muslim embassy if you are truly concerned about black lives.
Brian Hoff says
Only the Germany government surrender after WWII the Nazie moverment didnot surrender after WWII. Hitler didnot kill himself in the bunker. Either he escape or never went back to Berlin. He die in 1970 in Indonesia.
gravenimage says
Well, we already knew that “Brian Hoff” here–really, “DefenderofIslam”–loves Hitler, and is thrilled to believe that Islam gave this genocidal dictator a nice home after his genocide of the Jews.
One presumes the point this semi-literate thug is trying to make is that just like the Nazis, ISIS has not surrendered, and will continue to rape and murder their victims (never mind that the Nazis never came to power again).
Does “DefenderofIslam” actually have a problem with his vicious coreligionists enslaving Yezidi girls? Not so he says…
sawhneyblog says
Islamophobia and Coronophobia are just brother and sister.