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Olde Tyme Religion
ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape
2015-08-14
Of course they do.
The systematic rape of women and girls from the Yazidi religious minority has become deeply enmeshed in the organization and the radical theology of the Islamic State in the year since the group announced it was reviving slavery as an institution. Interviews with 21 women and girls who recently escaped the Islamic State, as well as an examination of the group’s official communications, illuminate how the practice has been enshrined in the group’s core tenets.

The trade in Yazidi women and girls has created a persistent infrastructure, with a network of warehouses where the victims are held, viewing rooms where they are inspected and marketed, and a dedicated fleet of buses used to transport them.

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.
Posted by:Whonter Darling of the Bunions4601

#3  I wish I were a Muslim Prophet's wiener
That is what I'd really like to be
'Cause if I were Mohammed's mighty wiener
All you women would belong to me
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2015-08-14 19:16  

#2  Oh. Well. You know. That's their culture and we have to understand it before we condemn it. How do you define "slavery" after all. You can't say what they go through is worse than what blacks went through.
Posted by: Fred, channeling Helen Gurley Brown   2015-08-14 13:14  

#1  Little has been heard from NOW/womyn in the U.S. regarding rape in Islamic countries and countries in transition such as Sweden and other European countries. Much of their time has been occupied with supporting the "Are you ready for Hillary campaign."
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-08-14 08:57  

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