Nineteen young women executed for refusing sex with Islamic State fighters
By Mark Ellis, Special to ASSIST News Service
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (ANS - August 7, 2015) -- ISIS executed 19 young women because they refused to engage in ‘sexual jihad’ with their fighters, a Kurdish official said.
The women were being held in the terror group’s stronghold of Mosul in Iraq.
“The girls get peddled like
barrels of petrol,” according to a report in Bloomberg News. “One girl
can be sold and bought by five or six different men. Sometimes these
fighters sell the girls back to their families for thousands of dollars
of ransom.”
There has been internal conflict within ISIS recently over money and the way captured women are distributed.
Moreover, a UN envoy
investigating sexual violence in the region verified an ISIS pamphlet
that gives prices for the purchase of women. The cost for boys and girls
aged one to nine is approximately $165. Adolescent girls are priced at
$124 and the price goes down for women over 20.
ISIS abducted hundreds of Yazidi
women last year when they stormed northern Iraq. The Yazidis are a
Kurdish religious group that ISIS considers heretics, because of their
belief system rooted in Zoroastrianism.
There have been disturbing
reports of Yazidi women and young girls being sold into sexual slavery,
with the youngest fetching the highest price.
Last month, three Yazidi women who escaped ISIS spoke of the horror they experienced at the hands of the terrorist group.
One woman, Bushra (21), said she was raped repeatedly by the man who bought her.
“He told me he was going to rape
me that same day, however ill I made myself. He took me home, tied up
my hands and feet, and raped me,” she stated.
About the writer: Mark Ellis is senior correspondent for the ASSIST News Service and also the founder of www.Godreports.com,
a website that shares stories, testimonies and videos from the church
around the world to build interest and involvement in world missions.
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