Posted on 05/10/2015 6:33:03 AM PDT by SJackson
Zainab Bangura urges Security Council to integrate protection of women into counter-terrorism agenda.
UN special representative on sexual violence in conflict, Zainab Bangura, said Thursday, in a UN briefing to journalists, that sexual violence against females is being committed strategically and systematically by Islamic State operatives in Syria and Iraq on a regular basis, according to the UN News Center.
“Women and girls are at risk and under assault at every point of their lives,” Bangura said of females living in the shadow of IS.
The UN representative traveled to the Middle East mid-to-late April to meet with women who escaped the wrath of Islamic State fighters. She talked to women in Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, and heard tales of forced and underage marriage, captivity, sex trafficking, and sexual violence.
Bangura said young girls were categorized, stripped, and shipped naked to slave bazaars to be examined and distributed amongst IS fighters.
“ISIS has institutionalized sexual violence and the brutalization of women as a central aspect of their ideology and operations, using it as a tactic of terrorism to advance their key strategic objectives,” Bangura described.
She told the story of a young woman who was married over 20 times, forced to undergo surgery to restore her virginity at the end of each coerced union.
Sexual violence, according to Dangura, was not only used to satisfy promises made to fighters, but also as a means to humiliate dissenters, draw intelligence information, and dismantle traditional familial and social norms so that the structure of a new caliphate could be formed.
Bangura requested that the UN Security Council beef up its counter-terrorism agenda with a clause that would work for the protection and empowerment of women in hostile, conflict-driven zones.
She also expressed concern that children born out of rape, unable to register, would give rise to a generation of "stateless children," whose vulnerability could give rise to future extremism.
. I have come to the point that I may never vote in an election again. I have been voting for 40+ years, but now it does not matter. They are one and the same, no difference, and don't hand me that line that this guy or that gal IS the answer. None of them are the answer. They get into Sodom on the Potomac and they catch the money, free bennie bug and they go off the deep end. My worthless congress critter was a Christian when he left town. Now you near nothing from him worth a dang. He was in town the other day, rubbing up against the three or four who will give him bucks for the '16 election, and said nothing worth repeating. Nothing. He has accomplished nothing. Been there for years and done nothing. The military base closed. He was powerless to do a danged thing. He accomplishes nothing. If not for Jeff Sessions, I wouldn't waste my time. I guess I will go vote for him, even though he will win anyway. But I am sick of these punks.
LORD above forgive me for my outburst. But I am simply sick of them. SICK!!! of all of them.
She told the story of a young woman who was married over 20 times, forced to undergo surgery to restore her virginity at the end of each coerced union. ///
I’m afraid this ping would bring me to depressing depths..and the traitor keeps letting them in by the thousands...
The real war on women.
They only care enough when they can talk and complain about it so they can further whatever real agenda it is they have on their docket.
In the western countries Muslims express indignation over trivial offenses to their religion and liberals kowtow to their demands. However Muslims in non western countries can practice slavery, murder those who do not share their religion, condone rape, oppress women and commit every sort of barbarism and liberals ignore what is happening.
Won’t be tolerated here? I don’t know about that. Eventually it will come here. The liberals think it is the answer. Islam over Christianity. They THINK they are getting the “sin problem” off their backs, but nope. God will still hold them accountable.
“The “care” that they espouse for the “oppressed” is nothing more than their unconscious personal PR campaign.”
Absolutely! They sleep better at night believing themselves to be better people by virtue of caring. Their care, however, is a mile wide and an inch deep. They certainly care a lot so long as they can toss other people’s time and money at the cause de jour. That’s a main reason why they look to government as the solution to every ill. It absolves them from doing anything themselves.
Why were the Marines at the shores of Tripoli again?
Oh yeah, piracy and this.
Amen ... Amen
Yes, a hashtag campaign. perhaps Valerie Jarrett or Hillary’s main squeeze, Huma, can lead it.
You’ve hit on it. It’s an attempt to destroy Christianity, because the left hates Christians more than it fears Islam. All the left’s animosity towards religion is directed towards one religion in particular.
With imam hussein’s approval and complete endorsement.
Dear God, I want to go back and stop this.
“Liberals don’t care.”
That’s because they’re ‘cooler’, hipper, smarter, and more worldly than the rest of us. Just asked them. It’s ‘chic’ to ‘understand’ and ‘tolerate’ beliefs and behaviors that are totally foreign to our way of thinking and being and that threaten our lives.
I disagree. I think liberals care. They just don’t care enough to risk their own lives to fix it.
They only care if they can gain wealth or power. Consider donations to the Clinton “charity.”
With Muslims practicing what Muslims have practiced for centuries, and as the behavior is being exposed more and more, we already know the position of the occupant in the White Crib:
“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” The quote comes from page 261 of the paperback edition of “The Audacity of Hope.
They’re busy fighting against the Republicans war on woymn and making sure Sandy Fluke don’t get knocked-up.
I am reminded of the Aliens movie “let’s take off and nuke it from orbit - it’s the only way to be sure.”
Piracy only. The US had no intention of trying to impose our own moral values on the Barbary pirates. Just leave our ships and people alone, and we won’t kill you.
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