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Posted on 09/10/2014 9:16:27 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
As the sun rose over my dusty village on Aug. 3, relatives called with terrifying news: Jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) were coming for us. I’d expected just another day full of household tasks in Tel Uzer, a quiet spot on the western Nineveh plains of Iraq, where I lived with my family. Instead, we scrambled out of town on foot, taking only our clothes and some valuables.
After an hour of walking north, we stopped to drink from a well in the heart of the desert. Our plan was to take refuge on Mount Sinjar, along with thousands of other Yazidis like us who were fleeing there, because we had heard a lot of stories about Islamic State brutality and what they had done to non-Muslims. They’d been converting religious minorities or simply killing them. But suddenly several vehicles drew up and we found ourselves surrounded by militants wearing Islamic State uniforms. Several people screamed in horror; we were scared for our lives. I’ve never felt so helpless in my 14 years. They had blocked our path to safety, and there was nothing we could do.
The militants divided us by gender and age: One for young and capable men, another for girls and young women, and a third for older men and women. The jihadists stole cash and jewelry from this last group, and left them alone at the oasis. Then they placed the girls and women in trucks. As they drove us away, we heard gunshots. Later we learned that they were killing the young men, including my 19-year old brother, who had married just six months ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I have a 14 yo granddaughter..
Convert to islam, come to the US, register as a democrat, < /sarcasm>
While I believe ISIS is as evil as this and quite a bit more than we probably even know.....something about this story is a little less than believable.
/johnny
The quotes of this poor Iraqi girl are all in perfect English. The article is in the Washington Post. And finally, the author of the article is a Mohammed something or the other.
Other than those things, it's totally credible!!
I doubt this is what the girl really said.
What part is not believable?
My comment on the WaPo thread:
The jihadists of The Islamic State are just following Islamic doctrine to the letter. The reason that “moderate Muslims” rarely speak up is their own fear of being labeled as “tafkir” or apostate to the true teachings of Allah and his messenger Mohammed.
Islam is inherently unreformable, because any reformers would be at risk of beheading or even crucifixion by the literalists. The best that we can expect from Islamic societies is the periodic leadership of enlightened moderates who do not follow the letter of Sharia law.
But when they die or are overthrown by devout Koran-abiding Muslims, we are back to the same original 1,400 year old conquest formula: kill the men, rape the women. Since Mohammed is considered “the perfect man” in Islam, and since the Koran is the literal word of Allah, not one verse can be removed. Mohammed personally beheaded 100s of captives and raped their widows on the bloody ground. Well, since Mohammed is the perfect man, beheading captives and raping infidel girls and women can never be erased from Islam.
Read my essay, “The Islamic Jihad Conquest Formula” to see the truth about how Islam took over much of the known world in the century following Mohammed’s death, and why the same cruel barbarity is inherent in Islam today.
This is the story told to me by a 14-year-old Yazidi girl I’ll call “Narin,” currently staying in northern Iraqi Kurdistan. I am a Kurdish journalist with a journalism degree from the University of Missouri at Columbia who covers northern Iraq as a freelancer for several international news outlets. I heard about Narin’s tale through a Yazidi friend who knew her. Aside from translating from Kurdish and excerpting her story in collaboration with Washington Post editors, the only things I changed are all the names, at Narin’s request, to protect her and other victims from reprisal; many of her relatives are still in captivity.
Start with the part about the girls having free use of their cell phones. End with obvious plea to live somewhere else...perhaps she means the USA?
This is propaganda.
OK, you can scratch one of my three reasons.
Sorry, I won’t be scratching anything of yours
No offense... you are indeed correct.
Clearly, it was written and edited for her, but that’s ok.
Perfect English ...
There a lot of stories that are “as told to ...” in this case, a US-educated journalist with a Kurdish background, himself.
Roger that, Matt. It’s a “religion” that’s incompatible with civilization, especially once it reaches a critical mass of a percentage of the population.
That’s why “moderate,” aka unfaithful, dictators are in our best interests throughout the Muslim world. It’s only if a dictator doesn’t take that abortion of a religion seriously, and is really only interested in lining his pockets, that we won’t end up with another Iran. The “Arab Spring” has therefore been an unmitigated disaster in terms of our national security interests.
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