Yazidi women: bounty of war

ParticleMan said:

Please change that to "bounty." "Booty" means something different these days.

tjohn said:

It has been a long time since this has been viewed as an acceptable practice.

Quite horrifying that this type of rape and slavery is still going on. I have reprinted a recent usnews article below.

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By DAVID RISING, Associated Press

VILLINGEN-SCHWENNINGEN, Germany (AP) — The Yazidi girl had been in the safety of a refugee camp in Iraq for two weeks when she imagined she heard the voices of Islamic State fighters outside her tent.

Petrified by the thought of again facing rape and abuse at their hands, 17-year-old Yasmin vowed to make herself undesirable. So she doused herself in gasoline and lit a match. The flames burned her hair and face, peeling away her nose, lips and ears.

It was in that state, physically disfigured and mentally so scarred that she had falsely thought her former captors were coming for her, that German doctor Jan Ilhan Kizilhan found her in a refugee camp in northern Iraq last year.

Now 18, Yasmin is one of 1,100 women, mainly of the Yazidi religious minority, who have escaped IS captivity and are in Germany for psychological treatment. The pioneering program that Kizilhan helps run, which has attracted international attention, tries to address a basic problem: Long after the women are rescued, the trauma remains. Even in refugee camps in Iraq, Kizilhan noted some 60 cases where Yazidi women committed suicide.

Recalling her ordeal today, Yasmin hunches over in her chair, grips her gnarled hands together and looks down at the floor. But she straightens up and her face brightens as she remembers Kizilhan entering her tent in the refugee camp. He told her and her mother, in their own language, how he could help in Germany.

"I said, of course I want to go there and be safe, and be the old Yasmin again," she recounts. She asks that her last name not be used out of ongoing fear of possible reprisal from Islamic State sympathizers.

It was on August 3, 2014, that IS fighters swept into the Sinjar region of northern Iraq, home to the majority of the world's Yazidis. They killed the men and took some of the boys, women and girls. An estimated 3,200 Yazidis are still in IS captivity in Syria.

See http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2016-08-24/raped-and-tortured-by-is-yazidi-women-recover-in-germany

https://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/3535

http://www.jidaily.com/888a0

RealityForAll said:

Quite horrifying that this type of rape and slavery is still going on. I have reprinted a recent usnews article below.

Rape and slavery never went anywhere.

dave23 said:

RealityForAll said:

Quite horrifying that this type of rape and slavery is still going on. I have reprinted a recent usnews article below.

Rape and slavery never went anywhere.

I don't understand your comment. Please help me out.

Do you not have empathy for the Yazidis?

Or are you disputing that this rape and slavery of Yazidi is still taking place?

RealityForAll said:

dave23 said:

RealityForAll said:

Quite horrifying that this type of rape and slavery is still going on. I have reprinted a recent usnews article below.

Rape and slavery never went anywhere.

I don't understand your comment. Please help me out.




Do you not have empathy for the Yazidis?

Or are you disputing that this rape and slavery of Yazidi is still taking place?

Yes it's horrible. But you aren't surprised, are you? Sorry if I misinterpreted you.

Man's inhumanity to man sometimes knows no bounds. We've seen that throughout history. ISIS is the latest example of man's cruelty and inhumanity. William Blake wrote: "Cruelty has a human heart... terror the human form divine." What gives me hope is that the bulk of humanity is not like ISIS.

More from William Blake, noting other aspects of humanity:

For Mercy has a human heart;
Pity, a human face;
And Love, the human form divine:
And Peace the human dress.

LOST said:

https://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/3535

http://www.jidaily.com/888a0

Your first link is to an article entitled "Christianity as Justification for Slavery." What is the connection between the Yazidi debacle and the article cited/linked? Second link is to an article regarding a pro-slavery rabbi from the 19th century. Once again, what is the connection between the Yazidi debacle and the article cited/linked?