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Worldview: A shocking silence on ISIS's sex slavery
Inquirer ^ | August 30, 2015 | Trudy Rubin

Posted on 08/31/2015 10:24:17 PM PDT by george76

One of the most heinous of the endless war crimes of the Islamic State has been the systematic rape of thousands of young girls and women - who are sold as sex slaves.

Most of the victims come from the Yazidi religious minority, labeled nonbelievers by ISIS. They were captured when ISIS invaded northern Iraq last year and wiped out their communities.

But one of the sex slaves was a fresh-faced blond American, a 25-year-old aid worker who was captured in Syria in August 2013. Kayla Mueller was chained in a room and raped for months by the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...

What astonishes me is the paucity of global outrage at the buying and selling of sex slaves - not to mention U.S. outrage at the enslavement of Mueller. American women organized to protest the Taliban's repression of women but not ISIS atrocities that make the Taliban's war crimes look mild in comparison. How can this be?

It's not because ISIS's slave trade isn't heinous or heartbreaking. The New York Times' Rukmini Callimachi recently documented ISIS's revival of slavery as an institution, with a bureaucracy of warehouses and viewing rooms where Yazidi girls are auctioned as chattel.

ISIS has compiled Quranic scripture that sanctions slavery and sexual assault on nonbelievers (Callimachi interviews a 12-year-old escapee who recalls how her rapist prayed before and after he defiled her).

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As for the broader public, why no outcry?

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Obama's policies for fighting ISIS are so inept and contradictory they have helped the .. caliphate to sink ever-deeper territorial roots. The White House still doesn't seem to recognize the long-term security threat the group poses to the U.S. homeland

(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria
KEYWORDS: caliphate; g71; idaho; isil; isis; isisssexslavery; islam; islamicstate; jihad; kaylamueller; moslems; mueller; muslims; northdakota; sexslaves; slavery; slaves

1 posted on 08/31/2015 10:24:18 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76

The Left envies ISIS - in this and many other things.


2 posted on 08/31/2015 10:26:43 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (Heteropatriarchal Capitalist)
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To: george76

Beheadings, genocide, sex slavery.

It’s the religion of peace so who cares.

It’s okay by our evil president. He’s busy golfing, naming a mountain, and worrying about climate change.


3 posted on 08/31/2015 10:31:12 PM PDT by Calpublican (Republican Party Now Stands for Nothing!!!!!(Except Conniving))
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To: Calpublican

How many days until Trump is POTUS?


4 posted on 08/31/2015 10:34:15 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (Black votes matter!)
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To: george76

Kayla Mueller was a true believer.

Writing how resistance rings from the minarets 5 times a day.

While her treatment was criminal, heinous, and reprehensible...
It is not the same as a 13 year old girl ripped from her home, forced to watch her father executed, and then traded like chattel among diseased perverted subhuman jihadis.


5 posted on 08/31/2015 10:34:22 PM PDT by BlueNgold (May I suggest a very nice 1788 Article V with your supper...)
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To: george76

SAT analogy question (obvious answer):

Rape is to ISIS as Abortion is to ___________


6 posted on 08/31/2015 10:37:50 PM PDT by zencycler
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To: george76

” with a bureaucracy of warehouses and viewing rooms where Yazidi girls are auctioned as chattel.”

Which has been the script of endless thriller films.


7 posted on 08/31/2015 10:42:57 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: george76
Pinging Obama the evil do nothing POTUS.
8 posted on 08/31/2015 10:51:07 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: george76

Remember the Crusades. Stop engaging in islamophobia/s


9 posted on 08/31/2015 10:52:14 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: george76

DAmn why Am I not shocked?..


10 posted on 08/31/2015 11:50:52 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: george76

“...why no outcry?”

Because there’s not opportunity to bash the traditional Western way of life: Christianity, Democracy, Capitalism.


11 posted on 09/01/2015 12:17:46 AM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: BlueNgold

True.


12 posted on 09/01/2015 12:52:33 AM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: george76

That’s because the left is all about deviant sex...


13 posted on 09/01/2015 3:02:25 AM PDT by maddog55 (America Rising a new Civil War needs to happen.)
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I’ve heard the joke that the only freedom liberals support is sexual. But now I wonder if even that is true.

When it is a fight between multiculturalism and feminism, now we know - multiculturalism wins, feminism be */?!

Muslims raping religious minority girls abroad seems like “their culture” and ignored, or ignored in the hope it doesn’t spread.

Feminists should be very afraid to import foreigners like the Muslim and African refugees who see women as less than livestock, because the liberals are going to sacrifice them on the alter of multiculturalism like the 1400+ girls raped by Rottherham Pakistani muslims and ignored by the state.

By tolerating multiculturalism, feminists ARE tolerating rape culture’s existence and spread - but it isn’t from the West’s cultural conservatives they seem to fear most.


14 posted on 09/01/2015 3:37:14 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: george76
It takes more than naivete and a good heart to get along in the middle east.


15 posted on 09/01/2015 8:23:04 PM PDT by Baynative (Liberty lost is a high price to pay for the experiment of socialism.)
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