ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape

[Valin]

NY Times:

Claiming the Quran’s support, the Islamic State codifies sex slavery in

conquered regions of Iraq and Syria and uses the practice as a recruiting tool.

RUKMINI CALLIMACHI; Photographs by MAURICIO LIMA

AUG. 13, 2015

 

QADIYA, Iraq — In the moments before he raped the 12-year-old girl, the Islamic State fighter took the time to explain that what he was about to do was not a sin. Because the preteen girl practiced a religion other than Islam, the Quran not only gave him the right to rape her — it condoned and encouraged it, he insisted.

 

He bound her hands and gagged her. Then he knelt beside the bed and prostrated himself in prayer before getting on top of her.

 

When it was over, he knelt to pray again, bookending the rape with acts of religious devotion.

 

“I kept telling him it hurts — please stop,” said the girl, whose body is so small an adult could circle her waist with two hands. “He told me that according to Islam he is allowed to rape an unbeliever. He said that by raping me, he is drawing closer to God,” she said in an interview alongside her family in a refugee camp here, to which she escaped after 11 months of captivity.

 

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A total of 5,270 Yazidis were abducted last year, and at least 3,144 are still being held, according to community leaders. To handle them, the Islamic State has developed a detailed bureaucracy of sex slavery, including sales contracts notarized by the ISIS-run Islamic courts. And the practice has become an established recruiting tool to lure men from deeply conservative Muslim societies, where casual sex is taboo and dating is forbidden.

 

A growing body of internal policy memos and theological discussions has established guidelines for slavery, including a lengthy how-to manual issued by the Islamic State Research and Fatwa Department just last month. Repeatedly, the ISIS leadership has emphasized a narrow and selective reading of the Quran and other religious rulings to not only justify violence, but also to elevate and celebrate each sexual assault as spiritually beneficial, even virtuous.

 

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In a pamphlet published online in December, the Research and Fatwa Department of the Islamic State detailed best practices, including explaining that slaves belong to the estate of the fighter who bought them and therefore can be willed to another man and disposed of just like any other property after his death.

 

Recent escapees describe an intricate bureaucracy surrounding their captivity, with their status as a slave registered in a contract. When their owner would sell them to another buyer, a new contract would be drafted, like transferring a property deed. At the same time, slaves can also be set free, and fighters are promised a heavenly reward for doing so.

 

Though rare, this has created one avenue of escape for victims.

 

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Meanwhile Back At The Ranch

 

[Valin]

Conflict News
Aug 14

Photos: #ISIS slave market in #Syria. Photo leaked with Assyrian women holding their names to be sold - @EjmAlrai

 

8:02 AM - 14 Aug 2015

[Valin]

Meanwhile I'm supposed to feel sorry

 

HuffPoThe Mothers of ISIS

Their children abandoned them to join the worst terror organization on earth. Now all they have is each other.

 

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Sorry mom your bouncing baby boy has become a homicidal zombie...and maybe a rapist. The world will be a much better place when he is dead.