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Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, who fled the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, march in a demonstration at the Iraqi-Turkish border |
Women Are Committing Suicide 'by the Hundreds' to
Escape ISIS' Sex Slavery
By Stoyan Zaimov , Christian Post Reporter
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A
Yazidi woman who fled captivity at the hands of the Islamic State terror group
has claimed that hundreds of others are taking their own lives rather than be
subjected to sex slavery by the jihadists.
"We
just want them to be rescued," Ameena Saeed Hasan said in a CNN report.
"Hundreds of girls have committed suicide.
"I
have some pictures of the girls who have committed suicide ... when they lose
hope for rescue and when ISIS many times sell them and rape them ... I think
there is maybe 100. We lost contact with most of them," she added.
While
Hasan and other Yazidis have managed to escape the terror group, thousands of
others remain in captivity and in great danger. IS sees the Yazidis as
devil-worshipers and regularly executes men, while forcing women and children
into sex slavery.
Hasan
has since become an activist raising awareness for the plight of Yazidis, and
has been recognized with an award from the U.S. State Department for helping IS
slaves.
U.S.
Secretary of State John Kerry has praised her "courageous efforts on
behalf of the Yazidi religious minority in northern Iraq, for insisting that
the world give heed to the horrors that they face, and ... firm commitment to
helping the victims and saving lives."
Several reports have focused on the
horrific rapes and abuse Yazidi women have suffered at the hands of the Islamic
militants, who have captured vast territory in Iraq and Syria. Many women have
been forced to marry jihadists out of fear for their lives, or to save the
lives of loved ones.
An
investigative report by The New York Times in August
found that many IS fighters believe that raping children and young girls serves
as a "prayer" to God. The report, based on interviews with 21 women
and girls who escaped IS' captivity in Iraq, revealed that jihadists seek to
justify their actions with the Quran, the Islamic holy book.
"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," one 12-year-old girl
said.
"Every
time that he came to rape me, he would pray," added another 15-year-old
girl.
"He
said that raping me is his prayer to God. I said to him, 'What you're doing to
me is wrong, and it will not bring you closer to God.' And he said, 'No, it's
allowed. It's halal.'"
IS'
pamphlets from December 2014 have also sought to advise its fighters when it is
permissible to rape children.
"It
is permissible to have intercourse with the female slave who hasn't reached
puberty, if she is fit for intercourse," the pamphlet read.
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