ISIS
leader demands female genital mutilation of 2 million girls
BY ROBERT MYLES
Mosul - A Jihadist
leader associated with the militant Islamist group ISIS — the Islamic State of
Iraq and al-Sham — has ordered that all women aged from 11 to 46 years in Iraq
undergo female genital mutilation (FGM), according to a UN spokeswoman.
The United
Nations second-in-command in Iraq, Jacqueline Badcock, speaking from the
Kurdish provincial capital of Irbil, told reporters during a videoconference
organized in Geneva that Islamists in control of the Iraqi city of Mosul had
issued a fatwa or edict asking all families around Iraq's northern city of
Mosul to circumcise daughters within the specified ages or face severe
punishment.
Ms Badcock, the UN's resident and humanitarian
coordinator in Iraq, said “The practice,” said Ms. Badcock, "is something very new for Iraq... and
does need to be addressed."
"This is not the will of
Iraqi people, or the women of Iraq in these vulnerable areas covered by the
terrorists," she added.
According to International Business Times, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader
of the self-declared Islamic State, ordered the female genital mutilation of 2
million Iraqi girls seeking to justify the fatwa as being in order to "distance them from debauchery and
immorality."
Al-Baghdadi
is believed to have been born in Samarra, Iraq in 1971.
According
to his Wikipedia, he’s been named the Caliph —
head of state and theocratic absolute monarch — of the self-proclaimed Islamic
State located in western Iraq and north-eastern Syria.
Reports
suggest that Al-Baghdadi was an imam at around the time of the US-led 2003
invasion of Iraq.
Ahmed Obaydi, a spokesman of Mosul Police, told
Kurdistan-based BasNews,“Baghdadi’s
decision to have all women circumcised is, as he claims, to prevent immorality
and promote Islamic attitudes among Muslims. The decision was made by Baghdadi
as a ‘gift’ for people in Mosul.”
But civil activist Asil Jamal, quoted by the same news outlet, was more forthright,
commenting,“When ISIS was first arriving in
Mosul, people were warmly welcoming them, but as a result of ISIS’ horrendous
wishes, especially forced female circumcision, it is becoming clear for people
that these ISIS militants don’t know anything else except torture.”
FGM or the
ritual cutting of girls’ and women’s’ genitalia is widely practised across
large swathes of Africa, the Middle East and Asia. The practice has come in for
strong criticism, not just from the United Nations, but also human rights and
women’s rights groups.
In 2012,
the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling on all states
to ban the practice but despite widespread condemnation, women in a number of
countries have continued to suffer this barbaric practice.
Earlier
this week, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) released
new data which, said UNICEF, confirmed the need for urgent action to end female
genital mutilation and child marriage — two practices that affect millions of
girls across the globe, said UNICEF.
UNICEF’s
figures for those who’ve suffered the humiliation of FGM are staggering.
The organization estimates that more than 130 million girls and women have
experienced some form of FGM in the 29 African and Middle Eastern countries
where the harmful practice is most common.
The UNICEF
campaign to end FGM can be followed on social media under the hashtag #endFGM.
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upon this mountain
The sun
is shining bright
My
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Here
above the cares of life
But
I’ve just come through the valley
Of
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It was
there I came to know my God
Enough
to stand and say...
chorus:
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carries his children through like He said he would
Even in
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The road
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To a
valley of defeat.
You
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But
there is hope in the rugged place
Where
tears of sorrow dwell.
Can’t
you hear Him gently whispering,
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chorus:
Even in
the valley God is good.
Even in
the valley He is faithful and true.
He
carries His children through like He said he would
Even in
the valley God is good.
chorus:
Even in
the valley God is good.
Even in
the valley He is faithful and true.
He
carries his children through like He said he would
Even in
the valley God is good.
God is
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Even in
the valley God is good
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