EVIL IN ACTION
☪️ In the late summer of 2014, the international community watched helplessly as
#Islamic State (IS) unleashed widespread human rights abuses against civilians across
#Syria and
#Iraq with little standing in its way.
Among its actions were various forms of sexual abuse, initially directed against women from the
#Yazidi community of
#Sinjar but this was rapidly expanded to all women in the areas IS now controls.
☪️Letter of the law --
IS’s rules on sex and women were first laid out in detail in the October 2014 issues of the group’s official journal, Dabiq, which is disseminated in both electronic and hard copy across northern
#Syria and
#Iraq
IS also circulated an explanatory booklet, entitled Questions and Answers on Female Slaves and their Freedom, in the larger cities and towns under its control, particularly
#Mosul and
#Raqqa
First presented during Friday prayers, and distributed to the faithful outside mosques, the booklet offers a first-hand insight into IS’s new gender and sex policies.
It shows how IS’s leaders and propagandists have reactivated and reinterpreted a grab-bag of old legal rules and fatwas that were utilized from the Middle Ages until the 18th century.
In particular, the principles they espouse have an underpinning in their interpretation of the law of war (fiqh al-harb) and laws dealing with non-Muslims living in
#Muslim territories.
☪️The spoils of war--
Under the medieval Islamic law of war, the mainstream position of theologians at the time was to consider captured women as spoils, mere booty to be treated as property. Ancient sources also emphasized the need to distinguish Muslim women from non-Muslim women, as well as differentiating married and unmarried women.
It was not permitted to enslave Muslim women, who were deemed free by definition. The sharia – moral code – requires their consent for sexual relations.
Identifying women as Muslim was relatively simple and fast: a commander would ask a “captured woman” to pronounce the Muslim profession of faith, then to recite at least three chapters (surât) of the Koran.
In the case of IS, which considers Shiites heretics, other tests have been added to establish whether captured women are Sunni or Shiite. Even a Muslim woman can be deemed a “concubine” or even a “slave” by IS simply because she is Shiite; only Sunni women are considered truly Muslim and therefore protected at all from sexual enslavement.
Virgins in paradise --
In IS’s jihadist mindset, women’s virginity offers obvious advantages to men – in some literalist interpretations, the Koran promises “houris” (virgins) for Muslim men after death, especially if the death occurs on the “jihad path” to Allah.
A “quest for virginity” has led IS fighters to seek sex with increasingly young girls, sometimes barely at the age of adolescence.
Many
#jihadist groups believe that the more non-Muslim women they capture, the more “points” they earn for faster passage to paradise; indeed, they see the action of converting a non-Muslim woman to Islam as the best possible guarantee for entry into heaven. Unsurprisingly, this can lead to forced conversions, forced marriage and rape.
There are also numerous legal statements and fatwas about the “types of unions” that are lawful to contract with a Muslim women, as well as with respect to the practical arrangements to “break the union” (divorce, repudiation, abandonment).
Bigger question - When will Islamic attack on humanity stop ?
#Islam #Islamists #Israel #Pakistan #Islaminaction #ISIS #RahulGandhi #Afghanistan #IranMassacre #Iran #Hijab #Islamiclies #Quran #Jews #karachi #72hoor #FundaoLupo #Temblor #ROSÉ #London #jihad #PakistanArmy #Prada #KeralaStory2