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| Religious Leaders Say US Troops Mistreat Children |
| 2005-07-31 |
| From Jihad Unspun Religious leaders order parents, guardians not to let children The Council of Islamic Legal Rulings in al-Anbar Province issued a ruling that was posted on mosques in the area forbidding parents to allow their children into the street alone from today onward. The Islamic religious authority said that parents could let their children out only if they exercise supervision over them or allow them out near the doors of their houses so that they would be able to run home before US troops can approach them. The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in ar-Ramadi reported that the Council issued its statement in response to the growing number of incidents of sexual attacks on children in rural areas, particularly by US soldiers. US forces have also used Iraqi children as human shields to protect them from Resistance attacks when they invade towns and villages â a practice that has dramatically increased lately in the cities of ar-Ramadi, Hit, al-Khalidiyah, and al-Qaâim. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in Mosul, meanwhile, reported that the Mufti (Islamic Jurisconsult) for the city issued the same ruling Friday night. Among Iraqâs Shiâi population, the preacher representing the Muqtada as-Sadr movement, Shaykh Muhammad Husayn al-âAmidi, made the same call in his Friday sermon. Shaykh al-âAmidi said: âit is shocking and shameful that the occupation forces are taking the children of Iraq as easy playthings and use them as human shields to ward off the blows of the Resistance. .... We call on guardians of children not to send their children out of the house if they want to protect them. The massacre in Baghdad al-Jadidah should be a sufficient example for guardians of what can happen otherwise to children.â The same has happened in Diyala Province, northeast of Baghdad, where numerous religious leaders held an emergency meeting of directors of schools and kindergartens and parents and told them not to let the children in their care out into the street for fear that they would be used as human shields or be molested by US soldiers. In Baghdad the puppet so-called âministry of human rightsâ confirmed that there were at least 17 cases of sexual molestation of children coming home from school by occupation soldiers in June. The puppet âministryâ said that seven of the victims were little girls between the ages of eight and ten. The source in the puppet âministryâ refused to specify the locations where the attacks occurred, saying only that they were in the east and south of Baghdad. Mafkarat al-Islam published similar reports more than two months ago concerning US soldiers molesting Iraqi children and using them as human shields. Dubious. |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #13 #9... Is "Lions of Islamâ¢" related to that other group that Zarqawi belongs to? "Kittens of the the Moon-godâ¢"??? I was jus wonderin.. |
| Posted by: Fligum Unoting7502 2005-07-31 22:26 |
| #12 Lord Mike-Mike should never be sink trapped. He is under fierce pressure from the nuance bunnies. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-07-31 16:25 |
| #11 Parents should be worried about the Imams, they are the ones sodomizing kids. Sink trap. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-07-31 15:40 |
| #10 The kids want dollars and gum. The soldiers enjoy interaction with anyone not hocking a loogie in their direction. The human shield claim is laughable as I think any reasonable person can see that the Islamists seem to feel they get an extra virgin or two for booming some Shiite kids along with a GI. It's best if the kids stay away though. As for the pedophelia charge, any soldier who did that would be highly likely to be executed on the spot by his squad. Pedophelia is usually perpetrated by lone wolf types. GI's operate in squads and certainly aren't being granted weekend passes in Bahgdad. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2005-07-31 14:23 |
| #9 Methinks the real problem is that the "Lions of Islamâ¢" are taking heat for blowing up children eating Hershey bars. Human shields indeed. The LoI⢠should be boiled in lard. |
| Posted by: RWV 2005-07-31 12:53 |
| #8 Agreed - Sink Trap. |
| Posted by: Raj 2005-07-31 11:48 |
| #7 And with this post, Mikey completely blows past the theory I had. Anyone have any ideas? The obvious ones are rather insulting, so I'm looking for the more subtle ones. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-07-31 11:46 |
| #6 Sink Trap |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-07-31 10:33 |
| #5 Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. |
| Posted by: Spavirt Pheng6042 2005-07-31 10:28 |
| #4 Is this the first time Jihad Unspun has reported such a claim? If so, this could be a sign that Al Qaeda is getting a tad desperate... a good thing, yes? Mike Sylwester, you've been willing to wade through their muck, what do you think, beyond the dubiousness of the claim? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-07-31 10:20 |
| #3 Not just projections, Nguard. The interactions between our troops in Iraq and the local populace - especially the kids - strikes at the heart of the jihadi and Ba'athist objectives. It connects ordinary Iraqis to US soldiers and Marines. Our troops hand out toys and food and school supplies. The kids see how it is possible to be a soldier and act humanely and as an ordinary person with compassion. The jihadis and Ba'athists have to put a stop to that if they are to achieve their aims. And so they are putting out lies, painting the US with the actions of their own forces and attempting to convince parents to keep their kids away from our troops. |
| Posted by: too true 2005-07-31 09:50 |
| #2 We saw the same crap in the Philippines. Every time the troops would go to an area some girl would cry that she was taken to the hotel by Marines and raped. After all the spin was over and many hours of investigation it would finally be revealed she was paid by the NPA to make the false claims. But by then the damage in public perception was done. I am sure there is a team of US officers investigating this and wasting their time. |
| Posted by: 49 pan 2005-07-31 09:07 |
| #1 molesting Iraqi children and using them as human shields. Methinks a wee bit 'o projection is going on here. Similar to how we reflexively assume that our opponets are sane and rational, even when they are demonstrably not. |
| Posted by: N guard 2005-07-31 08:35 |