By Mark Ellis, Special to ASSIST News Service
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (ANS - August 14, 2015)
-- Before he raped a 12-year-old Yazidi girl, the Islamic State fighter
told her that what he was about to do was not a sin. Because she
adhered to a religion other than Islam, the Quran not only gave him the
right to rape her — it approved and encouraged it, he claimed.
The militant bound her hands
and gagged her. Then he got down beside the bed and prostrated himself
in prayer before climbing on top of the preteen, according to a report
in the New York Times.
When his dastardly act was finished, he stooped low to pray again, bookending the rape with acts of religious devotion.
“I kept telling him it hurts —
please stop,” the girl told the New York Times. “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,” she said in an interview
alongside her family in a refugee camp, to which she escaped after 11
months of captivity.
The Yazidis’ beliefs are rooted
in Zoroastrianism, mixed with elements of Christianity and Islam. The
methodical rape of women and girls from the Yazidi religious minority
has become a big part of the radical theology of ISIS since the group
announced it had resurrected the practice of slavery.
The Islamic State recently made
it clear that sex with Christian and Jewish women captured in battle is
also permissible, according to a new 34-page manual issued this summer
by the terror group’s Research and Fatwa Department.
There appears to be no bounds to what is sexually permissible within Islamic State, including child rape!
“It is permissible to have
intercourse with the female slave who hasn’t reached puberty, if she is
fit for intercourse,” according to a translation by the Middle East
Media Research Institute of a pamphlet published by ISIS last December.
One 34-year-old Yazidi woman,
who was bought and repeatedly raped by a Saudi fighter in the Syrian
city of Shadadi, described how she fared better than the second slave in
the household — a 12-year-old girl who was raped for days on end
despite heavy bleeding, according to the Times.
“He destroyed her body. She was
badly infected. The fighter kept coming and asking me, ‘Why does she
smell so bad?’ And I said, she has an infection on the inside, you need
to take care of her,” the woman said.
Unmoved, he ignored the girl’s agony, continuing the ritual of praying before and after raping the child.
Photo caption: What does the future have in story for these three Yazidi young women?
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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