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Thousands of Yazidi women captured as ISIS took Sinjar city in August Girls as young as 12 forced into marriage, raped, and beaten for resisting Others sold to fighters who took them home to live with their wives Many girls commit suicide, according to witnesses who have escaped
Chris Pleasance and Jennifer Newton […] December 24th, 2014 | Tags: Amnesty International, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), misogyny, sexual abuse, slavery, Yazidi | Category: child abuse, Human Rights, Islam, United Nations | Comments are closed
Ashe Schow The Washington Examiner 11/20/2014 Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a harsh critic of Islam’s treatment of women, said Wednesday that modern American feminism is focused on “trivial bullshit” and needs to be reclaimed. Speaking at the Independent Women’s Forum Women of Valor dinner, where she received an award for courage, Hirsi Ali reminded her audience […] November 22nd, 2014 | Tags: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, clothing, Dr. Matt Taylor, Egypt, fashion, female genital mutilation, Feminism, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), misogyny, rape, Rosetta mission, Sohair al-Bata’a, Yazidi | Category: Civil rights, Education, Human Rights, Islam, Science/Research/Technology | Comments are closed
Zach Noble The Blaze 8/31/2014 British Muslim activist Anjam Choudary appeared on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” Sunday morning, and while host Brian Stelter seemed as if he was working hard to give the cleric a fair shake, the veteran journalist couldn’t help but get exasperated as Choudary steadfastly defended his radical Islamic ideology — and joked […] August 31st, 2014 | Tags: "Reliable Sources", 3/11, 7/11, 9/11, Anjem Choudary, Brian Stelter, CNN, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), James Wright Foley, Sean Hannity, Shariah Law, slavery, Yazidi | Category: Islam, journalism, Middle East, terrorism | Comments are closed
Adam Chandler The Wire BusinessInsider.com 8/18/2014 …Last week, we mentioned the growing role of the PKK, the Kurdish Workers’ Party, in the fighting. Despite being designated a terrorist group by the United States for waging a decades-long battle against Turkey, the group has become a formidable opponent in the battle against ISIS. Helping to lead […] August 18th, 2014 | Tags: Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), Kurds, Mosul, Rep. Mike Turner, Shiite, Yazidi | Category: Barack Obama, Iraq, Islam, Military, religion, terrorism | Comments are closed
AP via CBS News 8/10/2014 BAGHDAD – Kurdish forces retook two towns from Sunni militants Sunday a senior Kurdish military official said. The seizure of the towns was one of their first victories after weeks of retreating from the growing militant threat in Iraq. The Kurds were helped by a fourth round of American airstrikes […] August 10th, 2014 | Tags: Charles Krauthammer, Gaza, Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), Kurds, Nouri al-Maliki, Peshmerga, weapons, Yazidi | Category: France, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Middle East, Military | Comments are closed
@PatrickWitty Twitter 8/10/2014
“They’re terrified and exhausted,” @moises_saman photographs Yazidi refugees in Iraq @TIME http://t.co/QbhesLzvgZ pic.twitter.com/r0cpYuJxB5 — Patrick Witty (@patrickwitty) August 11, 2014
Related: Iraq crisis: 150,000 Yezidi Kurds refugees surrounded by Islamic extremists Thousands of Yazidi Kurds, including children, have been trapped in the mountains without food and water […] August 10th, 2014 | Tags: Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), refugees, Twitter, Yazidi | Category: Iraq, Islam, Middle East, Social networking websites, terrorism | Comments are closed
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