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UN Official Reports on Islamic State's "War on Women" (sexual slavery as strategy)
Aleteia ^
| May 27, 2015
| JOHN BURGER
Posted on 05/27/2015 3:40:49 AM PDT by NYer
A United Nations official has painted a chilling picture of how the Islamic State group oversees a vast network of sexual slavery, including an elaborate pricing system, violent treatment by slave masters and casual branding of female bodies and reselling of "used goods."
ISIS is organized and coordinated and "operates on a widespread and systematic basis to commit a staggering array of atrocities," said Zainab Bangura, UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict. "They are institutionalizing sexual violence; the brutalization of women and girls is central to their ideology. They use sexual violence as a 'tactic of terrorism' to advance key strategic priorities, such as recruitment, fundraising, to enforce discipline and orderthrough the punishment of dissenters or family membersand to advance their radical ideology."
Bangura, herself a Muslim from Sierra Leone, spoke with Middle East Eye May 7 after a fact-finding trip to Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. She said the focus of the tour was ISIS' "war on women, including from Yazidi, Christian and Turkmen Shia minorities."
ISIS, which has been fighting to establish an Islamic "caliphate" in the Middle East, wastes no time in finding women for sexual slavery, she said:
After attacking a village, IS splits women from men and executes boys and men aged 14 and over. The women and mothers are separated; girls are stripped naked, tested for virginity and examined for breast size and prettiness. The youngest, and those considered the prettiest virgins fetch higher prices and are sent to Raqqa, the IS stronghold.
Sheikhs get first choice, she said, followed by emirs and fighters.
They often take three or four girls each and keep them for a month or so, until they grow tired of a girl, when she goes back to market. At slave auctions, buyers haggle fiercely, driving down prices by disparaging girls as flat-chested or unattractive.
We heard about one girl who was traded 22 times, and another, who had escaped, told us that the sheikh who had captured her wrote his name on the back of her hand to show that she was his property.
Bangura said her fact-finding mission heard about a 20-year-old girl who was "burned alive because she refused to perform an extreme sex act," as well as "other sadistic sexual acts."
The appetite for such slaves is, apparently, enormous. Bangura reported that in addition to native soldiers, ISIS has "tens of thousands of fighters from 100 nationalities." Womens bodies are used as part of supporting the jihad. "There are tens of thousands of men who expect that they will 'get' women to 'marry,'" she said.
Answering interviewer James Reini's question about fighting ISIS, she said that in addition to the military intervention and sanctions, "we need first to tackle their access to communication means including social media that they use to terrorize communities and the whole world and attract new recruits."
Information is its oxygenwe must suffocate them. Their tactic is to destroy individuals, communities, laws and society and build a medieval social order. We also need to use economic divestments to halt IS sources of income and supply lines. We must also explain the scope of the atrocities being committed, and look at accountability, which is difficult in the context of more than 40,000 fighters from more than 100 countries. We need to look at jurisdiction does it fall under Iraq? Syria? We cannot only react emotionally, we must understand their tactics and defeat them.
A United Nations official has painted a chilling picture of how the Islamic State group oversees a vast network of sexual slavery, including an elaborate pricing system, violent treatment by slave masters and casual branding of female bodies and reselling of "used goods."
ISIS is organized and coordinated and "operates on a widespread and systematic basis to commit a staggering array of atrocities," said Zainab Bangura, UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict. "They are institutionalizing sexual violence; the brutalization of women and girls is central to their ideology. They use sexual violence as a 'tactic of terrorism' to advance key strategic priorities, such as recruitment, fundraising, to enforce discipline and orderthrough the punishment of dissenters or family membersand to advance their radical ideology."
Bangura, herself a Muslim from Sierra Leone, spoke with
Middle East Eye May 7 after a fact-finding trip to Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. She said the focus of the tour was ISIS' "war on women, including from Yazidi, Christian and Turkmen Shia minorities."
ISIS, which has been fighting to establish an Islamic "caliphate" in the Middle East, wastes no time in finding women for sexual slavery, she said:
After attacking a village, IS splits women from men and executes boys and men aged 14 and over. The women and mothers are separated; girls are stripped naked, tested for virginity and examined for breast size and prettiness. The youngest, and those considered the prettiest virgins fetch higher prices and are sent to Raqqa, the IS stronghold.
Sheikhs get first choice, she said, followed by emirs and fighters.
They often take three or four girls each and keep them for a month or so, until they grow tired of a girl, when she goes back to market. At slave auctions, buyers haggle fiercely, driving down prices by disparaging girls as flat-chested or unattractive.
We heard about one girl who was traded 22 times, and another, who had escaped, told us that the sheikh who had captured her wrote his name on the back of her hand to show that she was his property.
Bangura said her fact-finding mission heard about a 20-year-old girl who was "burned alive because she refused to perform an extreme sex act," as well as "other sadistic sexual acts."
The appetite for such slaves is, apparently, enormous. Bangura reported that in addition to native soldiers, ISIS has "tens of thousands of fighters from 100 nationalities." Womens bodies are used as part of supporting the jihad. "There are tens of thousands of men who expect that they will 'get' women to 'marry,'" she said.
Answering interviewer James Reini's question about fighting ISIS, she said that in addition to the military intervention and sanctions, "we need first to tackle their access to communication means including social media that they use to terrorize communities and the whole world and attract new recruits."
Information is its oxygenwe must suffocate them. Their tactic is to destroy individuals, communities, laws and society and build a medieval social order. We also need to use economic divestments to halt IS sources of income and supply lines. We must also explain the scope of the atrocities being committed, and look at accountability, which is difficult in the context of more than 40,000 fighters from more than 100 countries. We need to look at jurisdiction does it fall under Iraq? Syria? We cannot only react emotionally, we must understand their tactics and defeat them.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: isis; slavery; un
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posted on
05/27/2015 3:40:49 AM PDT
by
NYer
To: Tax-chick; GregB; SumProVita; narses; bboop; SevenofNine; Ronaldus Magnus; tiki; Salvation; ...
Please remember these victims in your daily prayers.
Catholic ping!
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posted on
05/27/2015 3:41:50 AM PDT
by
NYer
("You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears." James 4:14)
To: NYer
How is the behavior of the IS army different from that of the Imperial Japanese Army in China, or during its drive through Malaya and Singapore?
IS is using these tactics because they work.
People who find this novel, or unique, don’t know history.
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posted on
05/27/2015 3:43:44 AM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(If you can't discriminate, you are not free)
To: NYer
Womens bodies are used as part of supporting the jihadAs they have supported most successful campaigns of conquest throughout history.
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posted on
05/27/2015 3:45:14 AM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(If you can't discriminate, you are not free)
To: NYer
It’s not a “strategy”, rape is the whole driving force behind Islam.
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posted on
05/27/2015 3:47:54 AM PDT
by
Impy
(They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
To: NYer
The NYTs, NBC, CBS and the rest of the MSM are going to be all over covering this. Any second now...
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posted on
05/27/2015 3:51:22 AM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
To: Sirius Lee
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posted on
05/27/2015 4:22:55 AM PDT
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
It is not a strategy of terror.
Sexual abuse, slavery, pedo is the primary purpose and foundation for the existence of the cult of Islam. Control 51% of the population and stone them to death when they turn unattractive.
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posted on
05/27/2015 4:41:40 AM PDT
by
USCG SimTech
(Honored to serve since '71)
To: NYer
I am wondering if Hallmark is gonna pick up on this "Female Sex Slaves Day" thing?
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posted on
05/27/2015 4:46:11 AM PDT
by
Delta 21
(Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
To: Jim Noble
And yet, the Bushido Code seems almost benign, compared to the full and strict application of Shari’ah law.
When Shari’ah law speaks of the relative position of the Dhimmi, they really mean it. In every way.
And under the interpretation of Shari’ah, ALL persons of the female gender are Dhimmi, never to be accorded the full representation that is given to the Sacred and Nearly Demented Noble Islamic Gentlemen.
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posted on
05/27/2015 4:49:18 AM PDT
by
alloysteel
("Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement..." Ronald Reagan)
To: alloysteel
The successful military tactics of the ISIS army are not dependent on Sharia law (except in the sense that they are bringing people what the want, or think they should want).
Overwhelming violence cows civilian populations and makes defenders run away. Always has, always will.
The implementation of Sharia follows the military success - it doesn’t cause it.
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posted on
05/27/2015 4:53:57 AM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(If you can't discriminate, you are not free)
To: NYer
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posted on
05/27/2015 5:26:06 AM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
To: Jim Noble
Correct. The only way to stop it is to use even MORE overwhelming violence. In other words, ISIS will win until they are militarily defeated.
The question is, who has the will to militarily defeat them? I’d wager that at least right now, given the current political leadership and the war-weariness of the American people (I should say low information voter people), it is not the USA.
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posted on
05/27/2015 5:34:35 AM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
To: Alas Babylon!
In other words, ISIS will win until they are militarily defeatedOur enemy's greatest strength is our people's belief that our defeat is impossible.
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posted on
05/27/2015 5:40:24 AM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(If you can't discriminate, you are not free)
To: NYer
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posted on
05/27/2015 5:54:27 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: NYer
And here's the left wing take on it...
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posted on
05/27/2015 6:00:19 AM PDT
by
Ethan Clive Osgoode
(<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
To: Jim Noble
Under the progressive's view of the use of military force and current rules of engagement, yes, correct.
However, given our wealth in arms and technologies, and the exemplary skill of our current military, we COULD utterly destroy ISIS. It might take a WAR on Islam to convince them, but it may eventually come to that.
Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
--Winston Churchill
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posted on
05/27/2015 6:15:33 AM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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