Islamic State crisis: Yazidi anger at Iraq's forgotten people [women dragged fm home by hair]

BBC ^ | 9/24/2014 | Yolande Knell

[markomalley]

When tens of thousands of members of Iraq's Yazidi minority fled from Islamic State (IS) early last month, many were stranded on the barren slopes of Mount Sinjar.

They became the focus of international attention. But now they say the world has forgotten their plight.

Across the Kurdish area of northern Iraq, displaced Yazidi families can be seen living in makeshift camps and half-finished buildings, even under bridges.

Meanwhile, experts say some 4,500 individuals - including about 3,000 women and children - remain in IS hands.

The young women and girls are being treated as spoils of war and trafficked around the region. Only a few have managed to escape.

Adla has just been reunited with her husband at a camp in the town of Zakho. She was taken with others from her village and held for 38 days.

"At first I was taken to a big house in Mosul. It was full of women," says Adla, trembling. "They locked all the windows and doors and surrounded it with guards."

"Every day or two, men would come and make us take off our headscarves so they could choose which of us they wanted. Women were dragged out of the house by their hair."

[Travis McGee]

The I.S. jihadis are just the most devout Muslims, following the example of their perfect man, Mohammed, the mass-murderer and mass-rapist.

Click the pic to link to the full-text Free Republic thread.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Enlist them, train them and arm them.

[Pollster1]

ISIS isn't different from other cultures, just 100,000 years behind them.

[sagar]

These Islamic crimes have been going on ever since it was spawn and it will not stop until it meets its demise.

These Islamic crimes are too late for those suffering at the hands of the muslimes, but it is a good reminder of Islamic brutality for the rest of us!

[ExCTCitizen]

Women dragged from homes by their hair? The NFL are looking at ISIS members so they can join teams. Just think what the media say if Ray Rice did that AFTER a player dragged a female from their home.

[eeriegeno]

There are 1.2 billion Islamic followers standing by watching this happen and doing nothing? Don’t tell me that Islam is a peaceful religion! As I see it, Islam breeds and promotes barbarism. If the radicals are allowed to call themselves ISIS (ISIL), without other Islamic followers challenging that ISIS is not Islamic and does not represent the Islamic religion, then I can only conclude that all 1.2 billion are radical?