Isis : A Female Force

This attack on both people will forever have an impact on their lives. Leaving past scars forever in their thoughts. When Mariatu and Ishmael became victims the rebels had very different roles in their minds for these two. With Mariatu being a female and Ishmael being a male, it was the reason to put these two through what they have been through. Even though they were both young victims, they both came to do different tasks.

ISIS is being led by multiple people who are extremely resistant to compromise and believe that they are following a prophecy. They have a divine prophecy that they will either be led to a great demise or a wonderful ending where they will come out on top. ISIS is vastly different than many other groups by the fact that they are led by a very strong willed leadership.

I’m sure that you’ve heard of all the fuss about Isis and how they’re taking over the Middle East. Well, to be bluntly honest, it’s not the first time that something like this has occurred in the Middle Eastern countries. Back towards the time period when humans were first starting to populate and inhabit the earth, a man named Gilgamesh did this same sort of thing. The two of them have several commonalities and differences. Gilgamesh and Isis are similar in the fact that they both terrorized people and surprisingly, they both originate from the same area on the globe, the Middle East. They’re complete opposites for the reason that they committed their horrific acts during complete different time periods and for complete different reasons.

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*

Girl from a young age are taken from their homes and sold throughout the middle east and used for their bodies. These terrible actions are why books like The Girl Who Escaped ISIS are so important, they bring to light what terrible actions occur in these situations, furthermore they raise more awareness for the tragedies that still go on today. In Farida's situation she was bought by many men in ISIS, all believing in their religion and that what they are doing is right. Before being raped in one situation, her captor began to pray, she said that, "the particularly religious ones commonly did this before taking a woman, thereby celebrating their rape as a form of worship." (Khalaf 148). What is happening to these girls is a horrible act, but these men are truly seeing that what they are doing is honoring their god. This isn't only seen in the book, real situations like this occur. The men believe that raping woman is a religious act. A 12 year old girl, being held a sex slave by ISIS, said, one man while raping her stated that "according to Islam he is allowed to rape an unbeliever. He said that by raping me, he is drawing closer to

1. The Yazidis are a minority religious group from Iraq. They are being forced to flee to Mount Sinjar in order to escape religious persecution from the Isis terrorist group. According to The Times of India, the Yazidis “have often been misconstrued as satanic” which is causing many people to terrorize the group for their beliefs.

Each member believes the whole world should be under Sharia Law. Their goal is to establish a “caliphate,” or one political and religious leader. Women are treated like animals, they are also made to cover up from head to toe. The only thing to be seen on a woman is her eyes. ISIS believes alcohol is abysmal, and will harm or kill anyone under the influence. Everyone in this group hates all non-believers. These members justify their hate by this verse from the Quran “Obey Allah and the Messenger (Muhammad); but if they turn away, then indeed, Allah does not love the disbelievers.” Members of ISIS will jail or kill anyone who does not believe as they

As suggested by the name of the group, they claim to be the followers of the Islamic religion. Their primary purpose is to conquer all the nations and to enforce conservative Islamic laws and traditions. ISIS is known to use advanced weaponry, ammunitions, and barbaric ways of slaughtering their enemies. The group wants the world to only follow Islam, and they strictly promote the teachings of Quran. They have been known to have cause many attacks like the recent terrorist attacks in Paris. It is the extreme devotion of the military members towards Islam that is causing them to enforce their beliefs on others. The group is not promoting their religion, they are enforcing

(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.

ISIS is a Sunni militant group seeking to create its own state, governed by their interpretation of the Laws of the Quran, and to destroy all other branches of Islam as well as convert or destroy all non-Muslims.

Who is ISIS? They are a Sunni terrorist group that originates from the also Sunni terrorist group, al Qaeda, but specifically the Iraq faction, al Qaeda in Iraq. They are specifically a Sunni version of Islam called Salafism, which means Pious forefathers. The forefathers are the prophet himself and the earliest adherents. The individuals who are part of this group look to these forefathers as examples in behavior and everything else. They desire to follow their actions and lifestyles exactly. The original leader of this group was killed and a new leader rose to power, Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, who was an experienced fighter. They lost their power in the Sunni Awakening in 2007, and then found a chance to regain power in Syria in 2011. By

Who is ISIS? They are a Sunni terrorist group that originates from the also Sunni terrorist group, Al Qaeda, but specifically the Iraq faction, Al Qaeda in Iraq. They are specifically a Sunni version of Islam called Salafism, which means Pious forefathers (Ferran, Momtaz, 2015). The forefathers are the prophet himself and the earliest followers. The individuals who are part of this group look to these forefathers as examples in behavior and everything else. They desire to follow their actions and lifestyles exactly. The original leader of this group was killed and a new leader rose to power, Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, who was an experienced fighter. They lost their power in the Sunni Awakening in 2007, and then found a chance to regain power

There is no denying that Muslims are treated differently now, and ISIS has seen that and has used that to their advantage. ”Some are alienated by harassment or discrimination against Muslims at home, and want to join what they see as a pro-Muslim movement. Some, according to the ISD, enjoy the shocking violence.The ISD study, which examined the social-media postings of Western women who joined ISIS, found the women "celebrate the violence of ISIS, unequivocally."” (Why girls join) In the past women were seen as the people in society that would never condone violence, but the changing role of women has also changed the way they see violence. ISIS wants to find people who celebrates another western terrorist dying, and they do not care what gender. They have found a new demographic and because of that they are increasing the amount of people willing to commit acts of terror. Females often long for the sense of family and community, and when that is taken away since they can easily go into a state of depression, especially if that is all they have, “And for some women, there are benefits to joining ISIS. Many are given free housing and food. Others find a sense of camaraderie and sisterhood" (Why girls join). IS has invaded many Middle Eastern countries and turned them into war zones and has left thousands of people dead or living in terrible conditions. ISIS promises the people that are barely living everything that they desire. This can consist of a safe home, food, water, and most importantly the feeling of community once again. ISIS has created a plan to ensure that people will join the “cause”, and everything they have done, whether it was creating social media accounts or raiding countries for all of their belongings has had an end goal of getting

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has recently attacked. How and Why? These are all questions that the public still wants to know. ISIS is a jihadist terror group that was established after the fall of Al Qaeda and the death of their leader Osama Bin Ladin. The reason why ISIS' foundation is still spreading is because their followers want "revenge" on those who have tarnished the Islamic religion. ISIS' end goal is to separate the Western and Eastern parts of the world, and even though we pride ourselves on the belief that we are all equal many people want this to happen. And ISIS takes those people to help them achieve this goal.

Although they are ethnically and religiously different from that of ISIS, the atrocities against them do not classify as genocide because the intent for extermination is not there. ISIS’s ideologies give way to its vast brutality, and does not specifically call for the extermination of Yazidi’s in their caliphate but rather the extermination of all infidels in their caliphate. I believe that what is happening to the Yazidi’s and other ethnic and religious minorities groups that find themselves under the rule of ISIS is that they are prisoners of war that are being treated inhumanly. A key point of ISIS however is that they are not recognized as a state and their apocalyptic underbelly does not allow them to see the further implication of their human rights violation. That coupled with their aim of pleasing Allah is why such violence has been portrayed, the Yazidi’s just happen to reside in a location in which ISIS has control over. By no means am I trying to belittle the atrocities of the Yazidi’s. The intent of this paper was to explore what is happening to them and make sense of it. The Yazidi’s are prisoners of war that are being treated inhumanely, not victims of genocide, either way they and all other victims of ISIS deserve protection and reconciliation. Future research should expand upon the effects of an insurgency/terrorist group that have control of territory have on the brutality of the group