Posted on 11/15/2015 4:10:11 PM PST by Eleutheria5
A mass grave believed to hold the remains of dozens of Yazidi women executed by the Islamic State (ISIS) group was found Saturday in northern Iraq, officials said.
The grave, which has not yet been excavated, is located on the edge of the town of Sinjar, which was captured from ISIS this week in an operation led by Kurdish security forces and backed by US-led air strikes.
The area is infamous for a brutal ISIS campaign of massacres, enslavement and rape against Yazidis, a minority group whose faith the jihadists consider heretical.
The grave contains the bodies of some 78 women aged between 40 to around 80, according to younger women who had been enslaved by ISIS, witnessed the executions and later escaped, said Miyasir Hajji, a Sinjar council member.
"It seems the (ISIS) terrorist members only wanted young girls to enslave," Hajji said, a reference to jihadists using women as sex slaves who can be bought and sold.
Mahma Khalil, the local official responsible for the Sinjar area, confirmed that the grave had been found, and said it is believed to contain some 80 victims.
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Yazidi like Kurds are not Arabs (Semitic), but Indo European
which accounts for Blond hair & blue eyes
No Muslim (or Christian or Jew) who knows anything about the Yazidis religion considers them to be heretical Muslims. Their doctrine is basically a form of gnosticism in which the demiurge (the Peacock Spirit) is described as having rebelled against the beneficent high God in a way reminiscent of the fall of Lucifer (or even more the fall of the djinn Iblis in Mohammedan legend). However, the accusation of devil worship is not quite just, since unlike the Abrahamic faiths, the Yazidi have no notion that spiritual beings cannot repent -- the Peacock Spirit, according to their legends repented of his rebellion -- nonetheless, essentially all Muslims and many Christians in the Middle East still accuse the Yazidi of being devil worshippers.
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hey democrats: Don’t want to hear anymore about War on Women.
A real war on women!
Can’t be. They contribute to the Party.
We won’t see this in our MSM.
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