Breaking: Iraqi Official Says Hundreds of Yazidi Women Taken Captive by Islamic State Militants

[Hissyspit]

Source: Associated Press

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IRAQ OFFICIAL: MILITANTS HOLD 100S OF YAZIDI WOMEN

By SAMEER N. YACOUB
— Aug. 8, 2014 3:06 PM EDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — The spokesman for Iraq's human rights ministry says hundreds of women from the Yazidi religious minority have been taken captive by militants from the Islamic State group.

Kamil Amin says the women are below the age of 35 and some are being held in schools in Iraq's second largest city, Mosul. He said the ministry learned of the captives from their families.

Tens of thousands of Yazidis fled when the Islamic State group earlier this month captured the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, near the Syrian border. Amin's comments were the first Iraqi government confirmation that some women were being held by the group. The Yazidis practice an ancient religion that the Sunni Muslim radicals consider heretical.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/iraq-official-militants-hold-100s-yazidi-women

[humbled_opinion]

1. Human Shields

To be used against the humanitarian bombs authorized by President Obama.

[4139]

3. 'Comfort women'

[ballyhoo]

6. Exactly. Had to happen. As a result of

the attack, the fate of these people may be far worse than had the US not attacked.

[The Magistrate]

10. Except This Has Been Going On For Days Already, Sir

'Amin's comments were the first Iraqi government confirmation that some women were being held by the group. On Tuesday, Yazidi lawmaker Vian Dakheel made an emotional plea in parliament to the Iraqi government to save the Yazidi people, saying the "women have been sold in a slavery market."'

This is not some sudden reaction to bombing this morning; this is what has already happened, what people are fleeing, and have been fleeing for a while.

[IronGate]

24. Bull.

These women were kidnapped days before President Obama announced the US response to the impending genocide of the Yazidi people.
Ya know, not everything is the fault of the US, despite your hoping it is.

[flamingdem]

2. So they don't reject them as ethnic Kurds and take them as wives?

That was stated elsewhere. More likely is to use them as hostages unless ultimately they don't care about ethnicity.

[NickB79]

4. Using them as hostages

Doesn't mean they won't also be raping them every chance they get

[flamingdem]

5. I agree

They are capable of any atrocity.

Reports now that new strikes have killed ISIS fighters. Let's hope that some desert the cause when they see that.

[candelista]

7. Do you believe in the myth of "surgical air strikes"?

There is no such thing. Every air strike is a potential atrocity.

[cosmicone]

8. Capturing and raping women during war

was a practice observed by nearly all in medieval times.

Today, it is restricted to very few groups with one subset of one large group responsible for nearly all such cases.

[chrisa]

15. ISIS is medieval in many ways

They're almost guaranteed to take any country and turn it into a shithole. Doesn't matter where. Fundies are utter poison to anything they touch.

[cosmicone]

16. I say we should have our fundies and their fundies

duke it out in a pay-per--view event. The resulting profits could then be distributed to their victims.

If a lot of fundies die in the process, so much better for the world...

[Dems to Win]

9. 20+ years of US military intervention in Iraq, and conditions for Iraqi women are desperate

Those poor women, this is beyond horrific. I expect they will be forced to convert to Islam and taken as wives, perhaps second wives. If they don't speak the words of adopting Islam, they will be killed.

If they are ever rescued, they will likely be killed by their families upon their return, perhaps in the public square of their village. To preserve the family 'honor.'

RIP Du’a Khalil Aswad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoning_of_Du%27a_Khalil_Aswad

A 2007 Guardian article about how the treatment of women in Iraq has gotten more savage and brutal after the US invasion, during the US occupation (of course it has only gotten worse and worse):
Freedom lost
After the invasion of Iraq, the US government claimed that women there had 'new rights and new hopes'. In fact their lives have become immeasurably worse, with rapes, burnings and murders now a daily occurrence. By Mark Lattimer
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/dec/13/gender.iraq

My heart weeps for the women of Iraq.

[candelista]

11. Do we even know that this is true?

"Iraqi official" is the source. Remember the alleged babies thrown out of the alleged incubators? Or the WMDs?

[NickB79]

12. The plight of the Yazidis is well-documented by international observers and reporters

Considering that ISIS is content to starve/dehydrate 40,000 men, women and children to death on a mountaintop, them taking women as captives for hostages/comfort wives is completely believable.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/07/40000-iraqis-stranded-mountain-isis-death-threat

[candelista]

14. That doesn't prove this particular claim.

"x is consistent with y" is not a proof of x, even if y is true.

[IronGate]

26. Considering the barbarity of ISIS, and the videos of their crimes against humanity,

it's almost certainly true.

[840high]

18. Why would you question this, Isis is

barbaric.

[WhoWoodaKnew]

13. These people are animals.

[Baclava]

17. Relax - the "Freedom Fighter" apologists will be here to tell us why it's OK to have women as slaves

"the terrorists by now consider them slaves"








tick tick tick

[840high]

19. I read all of the women

are under 35. I wonder how young some are?

[Baclava]

20. Well I can't put my brain into savage mode, but young beautiful women are always prized captives

who knows what they consider attractive in slavegirls

[840high]

21. I hope none are young children. Disgusting.

[riderinthestorm]

22. Horrific. Awful. Not surprising. Shades of Boko Haram in Nigeria...

Fucking fanatic religious fundies.

[Brigid]

23. Somebody please stop this fucking planet.

I want to get the hell off!

[BadtotheboneBob]

25. Can I come, too?

And I'll bring my daughters and grand-daughters with me, if ya don't mind...

[Brigid]

28. Sure.

I'm sure many of us have had enough.

[IronGate]

27. Count me in. nt.

[McCamy Taylor]

29. How can these sickos call themselves Muslims? They are freaking rapists.