Seven Christian girls from the Iraqi city of Kirkuk miraculously escaped from the hands of Islamic State (ISIS) militants after they sent a text message to their local vicar. Church leaders thought the northern region of Iraq was safe for 50 of their female students, but then ISIS unexpectedly attacked the city in a bid to distract the Iraqi troops from the battle for Mosul. The seven girls were at a student house near a university when the militants entered their home to use it as a base, the Express details. “Suddenly their street was filled with IS warriors shouting ‘Alahu Akbar,’” said Father Ammar. “Most students were able to leave their houses in time, but seven girls couldn't escape.” The Christian girls hid under their beds under layers of blankets because they were unable to leave the house. For seven hours, the terrified students lay quiet and moving in the dark. The publication notes that ISIS kidnaps women to turn them into …show more content…
“Luckily the electricity was cut off, so it was dark in the room. Nevertheless it was a miracle the girls weren't discovered.” The girls were later rescued by security forces that stormed the house and took them to Erbil. Hours after the operation, an ISIS fighter blew himself up outside the student house. Father Ammar said it was a miracle that none of the Christian girls were injured. Meanwhile, a Yazidi girl named Zainab told Arabic media about her experience as an ISIS sex slave who was physically and sexually abused by someone called Abu Jaafar. She also said the man’s wife often beat her up because of jealousy. Zainab revealed that the wives of the ISIS fighters usually beat and torture Yazidi sex slaves out of jealousy. Even Yazidi children were not spared and some of them were poisoned to death by the ISIS
(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
Abu-Yousef said the rest of Qaraqosh is still in ruins and there are signs of ISIS everywhere. However, he was delighted when the local Christians were once again able to hold mass inside the church for the first time in two years. ISIS may have destroyed the town, but he and other Christians have vowed to rebuild it because it is their
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
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.
Which stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. They are known to kill people with no regard. Operating primarily in Iraq, Syria, Palestine and the Middle East. Under the leadership of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, this group implements Sharia Law rooting in eight century Islam. Building a society that is based on the regions past. While killing dozens of people at a time for example, public executions, crucifixions and other killings. According to the United Nations "In 2015, ISIS was holding 3,500 people as slaves, women and children from the Yazidi community." (CNN Library, 2017) ISIS is a war machine based off of two billion dollars. Their weapon of chose from a past incident was recently on April 9,2017. ISIS claims responsibility for two deadly bombings targeting Coptic Christian churches on Palm Sunday in Egypt. An explosion in the city of Tanta, killing twenty-nine and leaving seventy-one injured. As the people prayed at the Mar Girgis church and a second blast struck the Egyptian port city of Alexandria three hours later, killing eighteen and wounding
“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.
Around the year 2014 over the Syrian Border there was a small town named Kobani. A terrorist group had stormed the town terrorizing and killing all who went against there belief and faith. Those who didn't convert to there law were forced to pay fines or face death and die by the sword. In a community of small residential stone buildings under siege, rebel fighters hid from arial bombings coming from U.S., Saudi and Russian coalitions. In the center of town inside a tiny second floor apartment was a young militant fighter by the name of Yousef Azaan. The twenty year old Syrian Rebel was on his computer chatting with a 15 year old Muslim female by the name of Avesta Namara from the United States. For the last few weeks he had been trying to convince her and a dozen other young females around the world who would fall into his propaganda, and travel to Syria to support his brother fighters. He went on to text her, "and you can become a wife of a jihadist bearing his children and continue to spread the word of our God. And if your husband dies in combat you will become the wife of a Martyrs". The young Brooklyn native girl seemed intrigue when Yousef send her a picture of a Ak-47 with the promise of it being hers if she took the long journey. After she got off line she went to bed thinking and was interested in the adventure of marrying a
The bombing tactic was employed. They waited until the streets were filled with people shopping for the end of Ramadan. Shortly after midnight, a refrigerator van filled with explosives went into a building housing many
“The Yazidi girls are raped five times a day and burnt with cigarettes.” (Tonkin, 2015). What more evidence is needed to prosecute these criminals? These girls are passed through these criminals like dodge ball. Many of them have given account of what they went through and the criminal justice system in Iraq and Syria looks on. Not even the United States system has step in to help the victims of these violent crimes. The United States has great resource to find these guys and prosecute. Some country have been involve lately to help the women escape the horrible life they were accustom to under ISIS. Charities got involved to offer assistant to the women and children.
“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