Iraqi Yazidi Girl Escapes After Being Sold As Slave By Islamic State
Source: HuffPo
Posted: 10/11/2014 10:13 am EDT Updated: 51 minutes ago
MAQLUBA, Iraq (AP) — The young Yazidi girl rocked apprehensively as she described the ordeal that took her from her family, snatched from her home by militants in Iraq, then sold as a slave in Syria before finally escaping to Turkey.
The 15-year-old is now with what is left of her family — two of her brothers and some more distant relatives — living in a makeshift roadside shelter in this tiny village in northern Iraq, along with other families shattered by the onslaught from the Islamic State militant group.
Her two sisters remain in the militants' hands, and her father, other brothers and other male relatives have vanished, their fates unknown.
The girl was among hundreds of women and girls from the Yazidi religious minority captured by Islamic State fighters in early August when the militants overran her hometown of Sinjar in northwestern Iraq. Hundreds were killed in the attack, and tens of thousands fled for their lives, most to the Kurdish-held parts of northern Iraq.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/11/iraq-yazidis-isis_n_5969702.html
You go, girl. And I mean that literally: get the hell out of the hell! I hope that some Western country takes in this brave young lady.
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Brigid
(17,621 posts)And two kitties that like to snuggle. 
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Only 15 and suffered through more than I can ever imagine.
The way the ultra-muslims treat women is from the 11th century.
Hopefully she will get spend time with Malala Yusufzai and together they will change this practice of women as chattel.
Mister Nightowl
(396 posts)Religion, as they say, is a racket.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Mister Nightowl
(396 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)of suffering the abuse of faith causes in innocent others is enormous.
Just the daily grind of having to listen to 'ministers' and other clerics hurt nasty venomous verbiage at us is a huge thing to ask of others. I don't think the 'faith community' even thinks about that.
Supersedeas
(20,630 posts)Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)Remember how the media blasted Howard Dean for saying that wasn't necessarily true and called him gaffe-prone?
I imagine most Iraqis didn't disagree with the good doctor.
Also, the Saudis were buying women as slaves? I'm shocked.
They're our allies, you know, and help us to spread freedumb.
jaysunb
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Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)I wonder if it is more than her religion but just hateful barbaric actions on the part of ISIS.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)look at this: http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/10/11/Austrian-ISIS-poster-girls-want-to-return-home.html
The mullah from the mosque in Austria should be arrested and severely punished for child endangerment.
However, false equivalence with other rabidly religious people is what allows radical islam to get a pass from some people. No matter how bad radical Christianity and radial Judaism are, there are no reports of human slavery and uncontrolled violence including rapes and forced "marriages" IN TODAY's TIME carried out by ultra-followers of ANY religion except Islam.
Rhinodawg
(2,219 posts)Islamic state has nothing to do with Islam.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)sending theiir gullibles to syria to fight?
It has everything to do with Islam. They use Islamic teachings and Islamic doctrine to recruit and fight. Jihad is by definition a holy war fought for Islam.
The fact that very few followers of Islam from the West practice that form of Islam doesn't mean it has nothing to do with Islam. Average people in radicalized countries like Pakistan overwhelmingly support ISIS.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)The word jihad simply means struggle. It could be Holy War against infidels, or it could be the struggle of an alcoholic or drug addict to get clean and sober and stay that way.
No one here is defending a mullah who would encourage his followers to fight for armed sectarian bigots in the Middle East. By the way, the article you posted from al-Arabiya calls the motivations of the two young ladies "unclear" and doesn't name or give any mention of any Islamic cleric. No one here is defending the right claimed by those sectarian bigots to murder infidels or sell any one into slavery, or of their extremist brethren in Nigeria to behave likewise.
Average people in radicalized countries like Pakistan overwhelmingly support ISIS.
That's an awfully broad bush you're using "average people" in "radicalized countries like Pakistan". Without trying to minimize the strife in Pakistan, average people there appear to be divided about Islamic extremism and the characterization of the support for extremism there as "overwhelming" seems questionable. A Pakistani Muslim did win the Nobel Peace Prize this week. She is the victim of an attempted murder by extremists, and she is now living abroad, but she was shot by extremists for attending school and for advocating of the right of all young women to attend school. It seems that point of view, too, enjoys support in Pakistan, enough to preclude the characterization of support for extremists there as "overwhelming."
freshwest
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rollin74
(1,990 posts)"One should remember that enslaving the families of the kuffar -- the infidels -- and taking their women as concubines is a firmly established aspect of the Shariah, or Islamic law," the group says in an online magazine published Sunday.
The title of the article sums up the ISIS point of view: "The revival (of) slavery before the Hour," referring to Judgment Day.
The fourth edition of the group's English-language digital magazine called "Dabiq" said that female members of the Yazidi sect, an ethnically Kurdish minority living mostly in Iraq, may legitimately be captured and forcibly made concubines or sexual slaves.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/12/world/meast/isis-justification-slavery/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
