Christian Girls Essay

A women by the name of Sheryl Ray witnessed this bombing happen. She claimed at 9:02 that day, “I glanced out of my office window for rain clouds, following what sounded like a very long and loud blast of thunder. The sunny sky I saw quickly contradicted what followed” (Ray). She had said the images were almost unbelievable because they looked so identical to a foreign war torn country (Ray). Ray being a nurse she was allowed into the site (Ray). She claimed, “After showing my business card to a police officer, I was allowed into the area. Hundreds of physicians and nurses, flanked by gurneys, wheelchairs, and medical supplies, stood anxiously outside the hospital’s emergency department waiting for yet another ambulance to arrive” (Ray). The first group of people she saw were the survivors all mangled and distressed, but she claimed they did not make a sound (Ray). This is because no matter how beat up or awful they looked, they were the lucky

Thanks to this administrative apparatus, vast quantities of stone were shipped from the quarrying sites to Alexandria and then to Rome, where they were used in important Roman architectural projects. The activity of the quarries’ administration undoubtedly reached its peak during this period, which saw the prohibition of using the quarries’ roads without the laissez-passer. Let us, then, take a closer look at the contents of these passes and try to find out answers to some questions raised by them. The first of these questions concerns the issuer of these

(CNN)Dozens of Yazidi women captured and enslaved by ISIS in 2014 have been moved from the Iraqi city of Mosul to Syria, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The monitoring group and US military officials have said ISIS militants are fleeing Mosul and heading for Raqqa, Syria, the de facto capital of ISIS, as Iraqi-led forces push to free the key Iraqi city from the terror group. Dozens of ISIS families have already arrived in Raqqa, the observatory said. Ethnic cleansing by ISIS has displaced, killed and enslaved hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Yazidis, members of an ancient ethnic and religious minority. Modern-day Iraq is the traditional homeland of the Yazidis. Islamic militants captured thousands of Yazidi women and children, and killed the men.

In the article,”Syria’s Secret LIbrary” by Mike Thomson, a young girl named Islam said that it is very hard living their with the war going on and that she stays inside reads, and plays games to help her ignore the pain in her stomach from hunger (4). In Syria it is very dangerous to go outside and just walk around, but when someone is underground it is much more safer than being above. Knowing this 14 year-old Amjad still goes out to the “Secret Library” to make sure it’s ok (5).

These mahuajirat are then trained and instructed to carry out suicide missions in the West, according to leaked ISIS documents” (“Sally Jones”). Jones played an extremely fundamental role in recruiting and training more women to become suicide bombers. She taught the women how to become killers and emphasized how they should not be afraid to die for their cause. She helped ISIS expand while also increasing terrorism in Europe, especially within the United Kingdom. Contrastingly, the Black Widows are another female terrorist group who became well-known after an attack in 2000, when a woman drove a truck filled with explosives into a Russian Special Forces building. Since the explosion, these women have been causing terror throughout Russian territory, each using suicide bombing as their method. The motive behind these attacks were emotional, but also religious. These women originally became members of this group because they were promised a key role in the holy war. After falling in love with fellow terror recruits, their loved ones commit suicide, stripping the women of everything they

Saleh Abu-Yousef, a 32-year-old Christian fighter who helped liberate Qaraqosh, said the ISIS militants used their church’s courtyard for target practice. The Islamist fighters also showed no respect for the Christian site and even beheaded a statue of Jesus Christ. The inside walls were burnt and covered with ISIS graffiti.

In recent years, America’s attention has been gripped by stories of women who have escaped from the Middle East. Each has a unique story, but they all have the same themes of oppression, abuse, and domination. Americans rushed onto the scene ready to “save” Middle Eastern women and many of the activists are now been highly praised for the influence they made in the region. Others, however, have come to question whether the Muslim women in the Middle East really needed the U.S. to rescue them from Islam. *Insert Thesis*

In current media there are constant stories of terror attacks including bombings, shootings, and sieges. Many of these assaults have been undertaken by the religious extremist group, ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), which have stemmed from the basic religious teachings of

1). Ms. Greenlee is one of the most identifiable survivors of this type of tragedy. Greenlee told Ms. Martin (2013), “ she was forced to go through anywhere from 25 to 50 men a day or she would receive unimaginable punishments,” (para. 3). Greenlee told Martin (2013), “punishments were beyond severe, if she was not able to go through the number of customers they told her to she would pay with beatings, multiple rapes by multiple men, or even worse they would force her to watch as they tortured one of the other women they had kidnapped as her punishment,” (para. 6). Martin (2013) reports that, “Greenlee, who was kidnapped at age 12, was part of about eight girls who were kidnapped by a group of men who injected them with heroin and sometimes handcuffed them to the bed,” (para. 4). The tortures that Ms. Greenlee faced are unimaginable. She is one of the few women who have been able to escape from that world and talk about it openly.

On these days 3 years ago, IS' followers attacked the Yazidi's towns. They kidnapped, raped, and killed the innocent people who were living there. As well, they confiscated the houses of the Yazidis, which later became rubble.

The trafficking of human beings for slave labor and sexual exploitation is one of the fastest growing global problems. It has been called the "dark side of globalization" because an enormous upsurge of human enslavement has accompanied a border-free world economy (Miller). Trafficking in persons is a transnational crime that touches people in every nation, and even neighborhoods in this country. The vast reach of human trafficking stunned my own community, when we learned that a 12-year-old Egyptian girl was imprisoned as a domestic slave in the garage of a family home in Irvine, California. Like many victims of trafficking, she was sold by impoverished parents and transported illegally across international borders. While in captivity, she

When ISIS went and got the women, they would take them by buses. At every stop they made, ISIS would humiliate the women. ISIS humiliated the women by touching them inappropriately, violating every women. The bus would take the women to Mosul where they kept all the Yazidi women and children. Mosul was holding more than one hundred and fifty Yazidi families. ISIS would exchange the women and children as gifts, separating the families.

“I waited till they were completely asleep. And I put my suitcase by the door. And I was about to leave...sure enough, the phone rings.” The young woman answered the phone and told her captor that she was there. She continues, “I grabbed my suitcase, I ran to the elevator, and I got outside and I started running until I got as far away as I possibly could” (ABC News). This article of Miya—her real name was undisclosed— named Teen Girls ' Stories of Sex Trafficking published in the ABC News report, describes her successful attempt to escape from traffickers who had enslaved and forced her into a dark world full of desire; the world of sex trafficking.

The Sunni extremists of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, quickly claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was the work of a suicide bomber and had killed a gathering of Shiite Muslims. The state sponsored terrorist group, ISIS-sponsored network in well-supported and well-supplied operatives (Audrey, March 2016).

“The Girl who escaped Isis: This is my story,” is a January 21, 2016 autobiography written by Farida Khalaf with Andrea C. Hoffmann about Farida Khalaf’s self-experiences during the war of Isis. Farida is a young Yazidi woman who is taken from her home as well as the rest of her family in the beginning of the book. The town that Khalaf is from has Peshmerga soldiers. These men are used to protect borders of connecting countries and used to keep armies like Isis out. The Peshmerga are not strong enough to keep Isis out and Khalaf’s family and the other Yazidi families are forced to give up all weapons and personal belongings to Isis soldiers. Isis uses the woman and girl children as a form of their own “fun.” Their type of fun is raping the