Posted on 06/20/2015 7:50:06 AM PDT by xzins
The harrowing tale of one girl repeatedly raped, sent to a slave market and who then committed suicide is just the tip of a horrific iceberg.
At least 150 Yazidi women and girls killed themselves after they were forced to become Islamic State sex slaves, according to a woman working with some of the survivors who managed to escape.
In one of the most comprehensive accounts of the effects of Islamic State brutality, details emerged of the ordeals faced by hundreds of Yazidi women, very often after their male relatives were butchered by Islamic State members.
Irifan Mahdi, who is trying to help the women rehabilitate into some semblance of normative society spoke of the horrors in an interview with the Sputnik news organization’s Arabic website.
She told the story of Jilan Barjess-Naif, 17, “a beautiful green-eyed girl, with rare blonde hair, who slashed her own wrists in a public bathhouse near Mosul, northern Iraq, which is under Islamic State control.”
She was separated from the less attractive girls and singled out for special rape treatment before being put up for sale in a sex market.
After she committed suicide, Islamic State members threw her body from the bathhouse into the nearest garbage dumpster.
Jilan’s sister, Jihan, committed suicide a few days after being captured and transferred, along with other girls, to A-Raqqa, the Islamic State’s capital, in order to be sold at a slave market.
Their pregnant mother, also captured, gave birth to a child in a cave. She was freed recently and returned home “as a mad woman” after the suicides of her daughters.
As if all of this was not enough, Islamic State executed six of Jilan and Jihan’s siblings and their father and arrested 20 other members of the family. The whereabouts of some are still unknown.
The fate of the Barjess-Naif family from Qar-Aziz in the Sinjar region of Iraq is by no means unique, according to Majid.
Mahdi said she knows of 150 Yazidis who committed suicide and believes the real figure is considerably higher.
“They preferred to die than to live in brutal sexual slavery and violence by organization members,” she said.
“The bodies of some who committed suicide were thrown to the dogs,” said Yazidi nurse Amal Hasou, who works in an IDP (internally displaced people) camp.
Hasou said Islamic State members even told the girls that if one commits suicide her body would be thrown into the garbage and served as a meal for dogs.
Most of the girls cut their wrists or used the hijabs they had been forced to wear to hang themselves. Some threw themselves to their deaths from the vehicles used to transport them.
Obama’s refusal to put arms in the hands of other than the unrepresentative government in Baghdad is complicity with isis in the long run.
We should be arming the Kurds and any other group that has demonstrated a real stake in fighting ISIS terrorists, slavers, and murderers.
If we don’t, then we have more evidence that today’s liberal democrats are the heirs in more than name to the American slavers.
Thank the voters that armed Isis. From both parties.
Those enslaved by IS wouldn’t mind collateral damage if it meant stopping the evil that is IS.
Dear God, please tell us it’s almost Time.
If he left the troops in Iraq none of this would have happened. He is responsible for SO MUCH horror that it’s almost unimaginable.
Isn’t he playing golf this weekend?
what a piece of garbage.
MB loving traitor.
And the Pope is concerned about fictional global matters and ignores the reality of everyday Islamic madness.
Any “Don’t be an Islamophobe” fool who didn’t previously understand the Satanic nature of this death cult should get a clue now.
Genocide is happening and the Obama administration looks the other way.
Why is anti-genocide queen Samantha Power not speaking out? Why is John Kerry giving it a pass?
Why are the republicans not speaking out more?
ISIS is more brutal than Hitler. If we knew what Hitler was going to be like, I believe we would have tried to stop him earlier. We know what ISIS is going to be like. Why are we not seriously taking them out?
We are looking at the most sadistic regime since the Nazis and Japanese.
Yet we are doing too few air strikes and not arming the kurds nearly enough.
When they are armed and have air support, they beat them.
obummer is an idiot and I wonder where his loyalties lie.
I was going to post the exact same thing.
We have two choices. Choice one is to arm the Kurds. ISIS would be pushed back. Towns would be freed, and many innocent lives would be saved.
Choice two is to ignore the Kurds, and let innocents suffer while ISIS expands. But that would offend people who don't like us anyway (the Turks, the Iranians, and the corrupt gang in Baghdad).
The politically easy, and cowardly, choice is choice two. So that's what the US will do.
These are the same tactics used in the original conquest of North Africa, the Middle East and Europe and the ONLY thing that will stop it is beating them until they do not have the ability to fight.
Once the war is won, destroy the will to fight and that cursed cult, it is no more a religion than Nazism was a religion, only a political system.
Hitler patterned the Nazi Party after it, the Grand Mufti of Palestine was his mentor...
“Those enslaved by IS wouldn’t mind collateral damage if it meant stopping the evil that is IS.”
That’s true.
If he left the troops in Iraq none of this would have happened. He is responsible for SO MUCH horror that it’s almost unimaginable.
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Exactly.
I believe the American people are sick of wars.
If western civilization survives and if a history is written, I wonder if this will be called “The Age of Madness”?
“and the ONLY thing that will stop it is beating them until they do not have the ability to fight.”
Killing them. Just say it: We need to exterminate every last one of them. It’s the only way to be sure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCbfMkh940Q
I cant wait for Obbama to leave office and for some one that understands that stuff like this has to be taken on immediately and violently. if I had my way American policy would be to put imam’s on a hit list for sanctioned assassination that advocate violence by issuing fatwas’ or if they support sex slavery. I would go after those that think there money and political connections make them safe. I would make it extremely dangerous for anyone in the region to be perceived as supporting any of this. that would also include isolating Saudi Arabia and not allowing the Hodge to happen till the region put an end to this behavior.....make it impossible to travel to mecca and the effect would be immediate in the region. the violent jihadist would act out and initially it would be destabilizing but after the violence the region would be more stable long term.
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