Originally posted on Fellowship of the Minds:
You’ve all seen the news that, as they wreak destruction across Iraq and Syria, in addition to killing and beheading, Islamic State/ISIS savages are raping women and girls as young as 12.
But did you know the Koran says it’s perfectly okay for Muslims to rape non-Muslims? That’s what Islamic State says.
Excerpts from Rukmini Callimachi’s “ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape,” The New York Times, Aug. 13, 2015:
The systematic rape of women and girls from the Yazidi religious minority has become deeply enmeshed in the organization and the radical theology of the Islamic State in the year since the group announced it was reviving slavery as an institution. Interviews with 21 women and girls who recently escaped the Islamic State, as well as an examination of the group’s official communications, illuminate how the practice has been enshrined in the group’s core tenets. […]
A total of 5,270 Yazidis…
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