Most of us are familiar with the slaughter of "infidels" by the jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS). Beheadings and mass executions are plastered all over the internet. The latest atrocity is against the Yazidi - a peaceful community living in northern Iraq. Western media focused our attention on tens of thousands of Yazidi refugees fleeing their homes and crowding into the barren hills of nearby Mount Sinjar.
But what wasn't shown on television news and social media was a new twist in the perverted ideology of these ISIS barbarians - slavery. Young girls and women were systematically rounded up to be divided up among the fighters as sex slaves. Reliable estimates put the total around 7,000. Some have managed to escape and report horrific stories of their captivity - "married" to older jihadi leaders, raped by groups of young militants, made to watch beheadings and mass executions. To sanctify their acts, ISIS published a lengthy theological justification based on the Koran in their English-language online magazine called Dabiq. The article about the Yazidis, entitled "The Revival of Slavery before the Hour", said: "After capture, the Yazidi women and children were then divided according to the Sharia amongst the fighters of the Islamic State". It does not say the girls and women are sex slaves but rather, "maids" or "concubines" who "help men avoid the sin of adultery, or of being alone with an unrelated woman". The article then cites the practices of the Prophet Mohammed and his followers as justification for this "distribution".
Islamic scholars all over the world have denounced these acts as "un-Islamic". One group of scholars published an open letter insisting that: "the re-introduction of slavery is forbidden in Islam. It was abolished by universal consensus".
Meanwhile over in West Africa, 4 Nigerian school girls have escaped from the extremist army, Boko Haram. They were part of a group of 200 girls kidnapped from their school and moved to a camp in neighbouring Cameroon. Somehow, they gave their guards the slip and trekked through the jungle for 3 weeks - "following the setting sun". These lucky four reported that they were raped every day during their captivity and were told their families would be killed if they criticized Boko Haram or spoke English.
Like ISIS, Boko Haram bases its terrorist war on a perverted interpretation of Islam and like ISIS it intends to create an Islamic caliphate in northern Nigeria. Already, Boko Haram controls an area the size of Ireland and new recruits flock to their banners daily. So far, the Nigerian military has been powerless to stop their advance. I wonder how many more groups like ISIS and Boko Haram are germinating in other parts of the world until suddenly their black flags of death and destruction pop up in the name of Islam? Stay tuned for more.
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