ISIS Jihadis Get ‘Slavery for Dummies’ - The Daily Beast
According
to Nazand Begikhani, an adviser to the Kurdistan regional government
and researcher at the University of Bristol Gender and Violence Research
Center, ISIS has kidnapped more than 2,500 Yazidi women. Yazidi
activists, meanwhile, say they have compiled a list of at least 4,600
missing Yazidi women, seized after they were separated from male
relatives, who were shot.
In a long list of the do's and don’ts
governing the enslavement and treatment of women and girls captured by
jihadist warriors, ISIS includes details of “permissible” sexual
practices with female slaves. The new rules follow widespread reports
this summer of the jihadists enslaving women from the Yazidi religious
minority seized during the militants’ lightening offensive in northern
Iraq.
Issued on December 3 by ISIS’s “Research and Fatwa
Department,” the rules are laid out in question-and-answer format—a kind
of “Slavery for Dummies.” It is permissible to beat slaves, trade them
and offer them as gifts, to take virgins immediately and to have sex
with a pre-pubescent girl, “if she is fit for intercourse,” whatever
that means.
