This reminds me of when the Black Muslim women of Darfur were taken by the Arab Muslims as slaves during the fighting in that area.
Iraqi Official: Hundreds Of Yazidi Women Held Captive By Islamic State
By SAMEER N. YACOUB
Posted: 08/08/2014
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."
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Iraqi Official: Hundreds Of Yazidi Women Held Captive By Islamic State
Iraqi Official: Hundreds Of Yazidi Women Held Captive By Islamic State
By SAMEER N. YACOUB
Posted: 08/08/2014
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."
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Iraqi Official: Hundreds Of Yazidi Women Held Captive By Islamic State