Hundreds of young Yazidi women held captive by ISIS and they have "vicious plans" for them

[Cali_Democrat]

BAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds of women from the Yazidi religious minority have been taken captive by Sunni militants with "vicious plans," an Iraqi official said Friday, further underscoring the dire plight of Iraq's minorities at the hands of the Islamic State group.

Kamil Amin, the spokesman for Iraq's Human Rights Ministry, said hundreds of Yazidi women below the age of 35 are being held in schools in Iraq's second largest city, Mosul. He said the ministry learned of the captives from their families.

"We think that the terrorists by now consider them slaves and they have vicious plans for them," Amin told The Associated Press. "We think that these women are going to be used in demeaning ways by those terrorists to satisfy their animalistic urges in a way that contradicts all the human and Islamic values."

The U.S. has confirmed that the Islamic State group has kidnapped and imprisoned Yazidi women so that they can be sold or married off to extremist fighters, said a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the information came from classified intelligence reports. There was no solid estimate of the number of women victimized, the official said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/08/yazidi-women-captive_n_5662805.html

[msanthrope]

1. Meanwhile, here at DU, we debate over

whether or not the President should have ordered a military strike on the artillery......

This site. Sometimes, this site.

[elehhhhna]

3. we aren't bombing the jackasses that stole the girls in africa

and wow we care about the Palestinians.


Stop. We need to GTFO and stop.

[msanthrope]

6. Can you come up with an identifiable Boko Harum target to bomb that would not kill the girls?

Can you come up with an identifiable target to bomb to help the Palestinians?

[arcane1]

7. Aren't the girls human shields now, and thus available for bombing?

I can't keep track anymore

[msanthrope]

9. I don't even know what to make of this reply. Were you trying to be funny? nt

[arcane1]

11. No, just frustrated and unable to make sense of all the bullshit going on in that part of the world

Sometimes it's apparently OK to kill civilians, sometimes it's horrible, and I can't keep track anymore.

[msanthrope]

13. It's never OK to kill civilians. nt

[arcane1]

16. Agreed!

[DRoseDARs]

25. Tell that to Israel, a modern, Western democracy that supposedly cares.

Hamas is a terrorist organization who by definition do not care. "But Hamas..." card nullified, no one gets to play it as if it were a legitimate argument.

[roguevalley]

22. what this shows to me after the past few years of shit storm after shit storm

after shit storm is that the greatest threat to women and girls anywhere, of any age and ethnicity is men. Period.

[arcane1]

23. Sad, but true :(

[RKP5637]

27. It is! It's the SOS over and over again, men brutalizing women. Many men are gross! n/t

[SunSeeker]

26. ***crickets***

Seems to me the people who are most upset with Obama can never article what he should be doing that is different from what he is already doing.

[JI7]

10. the worst is those who bring up their conspiracies again

about oil, neocons , and other shit.

[msanthrope]

15. You mean the crop circle threads, where Obama is conspiring with the Bilderbergers to

put is all in FEMA camps?

[elehhhhna]

2. The US really fucked that country up, didn't we?

[Laelth]

12. Yes, we did.

I, for one, feel partially responsible for it, even though I never voted for a single person who was actually responsible for it.

-Laelth

[former9thward]

21. No, the British and French did after WW I.

They drew the lines and we now live with the results.

[RKP5637]

28. Excellent point!!! n/t

[TheSarcastinator]

4. Did ISIS also throw their babies out of incubators??

and onto the cold hospital floor? Just curious.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0906/p25s02-cogn.html

[flamingdem]

18. Not a lot of time to find out since they've

already started a slaughter

[msongs]

5. religion nt

[RKP5637]

29. Same root cause, SOS, over and over again, fucken nonsensical religion! n/t

[Dems to Win]

8. 20+ years of US military intervention in Iraq, and conditions for Iraqi women are desperate

Those poor women, this is beyond horrific. I expect they will be forced to convert to Islam and taken as wives, perhaps second wives. If they don't speak the words of adopting Islam, they will be killed.

If they are ever rescued, they will likely be killed by their families upon their return, perhaps in the public square of their village. To preserve the family 'honor.'

RIP Du’a Khalil Aswad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoning_of_Du%27a_Khalil_Aswad

A 2007 Guardian article about how the treatment of women in Iraq has gotten more savage and brutal after the US invasion, during the US occupation (of course it has only gotten worse and worse):
Freedom lost
After the invasion of Iraq, the US government claimed that women there had 'new rights and new hopes'. In fact their lives have become immeasurably worse, with rapes, burnings and murders now a daily occurrence. By Mark Lattimer
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/dec/13/gender.iraq

My heart weeps for the women of Iraq.

[Laelth]

17. Thanks for the second link. Enlightening and horrifying. n/t

-Laelth

[Laelth]

19. Interesting quote:

Saddam was a dictator but at least then we had the freedom to go out. Then there was only one criminal - Saddam - but now they are everywhere, you do not know who your persecutor is.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/dec/13/gender.iraq

We blew it in Iraq.

-Laelth

[The Magistrate]

20. Reminds me Of An Old Tory's Line In 1776, Sir

Said he would rather suffer one tyrant three thousand miles away then three thousand tyrants within a mile of his door....

[flamingdem]

14. Mentioned on msnbc - one motive for this is that ISIS

wants to sell the women to other Jihadi groups.

$$ .. run like a business

[CTyankee]

24. so much of this is about the subjugation of women. It is a crime against humanity.

these women must be rescued. Many will be seriously injured or die if they are not saved...

[Spitfire of ATJ]

30. Thanks John....

[hollysmom]

31. My grandfather married a polish girl after his wife died - she shows us her tatoo

she was a "comfort woman" to the Nazi's The put her in the concentration camp to be used when needed - a 16 year old blonde blued girl. When she went home after the war, people treated her like a sympathizer because she was still alive except for her family. That is why she married an old man when he came to town from the US. Little did she know that crabby people live the longest - he made it 30 more years to died at 94 from drowning in soup she was feeding him when he was sick. She just kept shoveling the sup in his mouth as he was dying. I think she had enough, he was pretty unbearable and I should know we had to live with him for 10 miserable years and I say that as one of his favorite children. we were barely allowed to speak, no noise, had to eat what he ate. like blood sausage and other icky things. If we didn't behave he took it out on my mother. All her fault.

[Brigid]

32. Somebody please stop this fucking planet.

I want to get the hell off!