Fleeing child abduction, slavery, rape and theft in Iraq

Irish Times ^ | 8/15/2014 | Lara Marlowe

[markomalley]

“My neighbour in Erbil has a two-year-old daughter. They said, ‘Give her to us. We will raise her.’ My neighbour cried and pleaded for half an hour. Then they forced the baby’s father to kiss their shoes, to humiliate him.”

Stories of gang-rape by jihadists, a practice known as “jihad al-nikah” or “sexual jihad,” abound. It was allegedly “legitimated” by a religious leader in Tunisia to help the Islamic State recruit young men. Sunni girls in Mosul have reportedly died by suicide rather than accept multiple forced “marriages”.

Kidnapped and raped

Members of the Yazidi community who met French foreign minister Laurent Fabius in Erbil at the weekend told him some 500 Yazidi women have been kidnapped and 50 were taken to Mosul to be sold as slaves. The Yazidis are Kurdish-speaking people from a Zoroastrian religion, considered infidels by the Islamic State. “They have fared worse than the Christians,” says Mariam. “They are massacring Yazidis and raping their women.”

Displaced Yazidis are believed to number 400,000. Some 120,000 Christians have fled Mosul and surrounding Christian villages. “A few days ago, Da’esh were 20km from Erbil,” Mariam says. “The Peshmerga (Kurdish militia) were running from them. Because of the American air strikes, they’ve pulled back a little.”

[markomalley]

2 years old? I guess they're trying to outdo Mohammed. At least he waited until Aisha was 9...

[hosepipe]

Previous Islamic despots have obviously murdered all the decent Islamics..
In ALL of the mideast.. any moderation is just an act..

[cpdiii]

Anwar Sadat (one of my heros) established peace with Israel. For this he was murdered by the Muslim Brotherhood. If you want peace with Israel you will die. That is all you need to know about the Muslim Brotherhood.

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Sadat was bribed like a whore...
and a whole cabal of his minions..