{"id":21476,"date":"2014-10-12T19:27:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-12T23:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/?p=21476"},"modified":"2014-10-12T21:15:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T01:15:22","slug":"islamic-state-officially-admits-to-enslaving-yazidi-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/islamic-state-officially-admits-to-enslaving-yazidi-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic State Officially Admits to Enslaving Yazidi Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21227\" src=\"https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Matthew-Barber-3.jpg\" alt=\"Matthew Barber 3\" width=\"125\" height=\"154\" \/>by Matthew Barber<\/p>\n<p>I first began tweeting about the Islamic State&#8217;s campaign to kidnap and enslave Yazidi women when I was in Iraq this past August. Though analysts were skeptical and online jihadists who defend IS vehemently denied my claims, I was communicating with the families of the kidnapped women and with those engaged in rescue efforts. I have even spoken by phone directly with kidnapped Yazidi women in captivity. One month ago, I <a href=\"https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/u-s-wanted-help-free-thousands-enslaved-yazidi-women-single-day\/\">sounded the alarm<\/a> regarding the plight of the kidnapped Yazidi women for whom time is running out, detailing how an effective rescue operation would be possible. A number of journalists had written amazing stories, directly interviewing survivors\u2014girls that had been kidnapped and placed into the homes of IS jihadists as slaves. These stories <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/islamic-state\/11156788\/Yazidi-teenager-kidnapped-by-Isil-tells-of-her-captivity.html\" target=\"_blank\">continue<\/a> to emerge, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/updates\/life-abducted-teen-islamic-state-group\/\" target=\"_blank\">TV interviews<\/a> have taken place, and the UN <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/Documents\/Countries\/IQ\/UNAMI_OHCHR_POC_Report_FINAL_6July_10September2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">issued a report<\/a> on the kidnapping issue.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the widespread doubt, I and the team I work with have been able to collect the names of thousands of kidnapped Yazidis\u2014mostly women and girls, but also a number of kidnapped and imprisoned men that have been forced to convert to Islam. A month ago, our estimate of kidnapped Yazidis was below 4,000 individuals, but as we continue to gather data, our number now stands at almost 7,000.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Serious research Q: Is there any evidence available of ISIS female slave markets, mass rape, \u201cjihad al-nikah\u201d etc. in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iraq?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iraq<\/a> and\/or <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Syria?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Syria<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Charles Lister (@Charles_Lister) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Charles_Lister\/status\/515485441697386496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 26, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/yazidis-getting-support\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ongoing efforts<\/a> to shed light on this crisis notwithstanding, the media hasn&#8217;t lingered on the issue. Evidence in the form of firsthand accounts of survivors gathered by credible journalists and academics wasn&#8217;t enough; skepticism seemed to reign in the absence of photographic evidence\u2014something nearly-impossible to obtain. How would one snap photos of women distributed through private IS networks and placed into the homes of individual IS jihadists? Even a photograph of a Yazidi woman in an Arab home wouldn&#8217;t indicate that she was in fact enslaved as a &#8220;concubine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But today this controversy can be laid to rest. IS has just released the <a href=\"http:\/\/media.clarionproject.org\/files\/islamic-state\/islamic-state-isis-magazine-Issue-4-the-failed-crusade.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">fourth installment of<\/a> <em>Dabiq<\/em>, an official publication that they began to produce in July. This issue, called &#8220;The Failed Crusade,&#8221; contains an article entitled &#8220;The Revival of Slavery Before the Hour,&#8221; which details how IS fighters kidnapped and distributed Yazidi women as slave concubines. The article also provides their rationale for reviving slavery, which they root in their interpretation of the practice of the earliest Islamic communities. The Islamic State has now officially disclosed that it engages in the sexual enslavement of women from communities determined to be of &#8220;pagan&#8221; or &#8220;polytheistic&#8221; origin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.clarionproject.org\/files\/islamic-state\/islamic-state-isis-magazine-Issue-4-the-failed-crusade.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21477 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/dabiq-mag-cover-450x621.jpg\" alt=\"slavery Yazidi women\" width=\"450\" height=\"621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/dabiq-mag-cover-450x621.jpg 450w, https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/dabiq-mag-cover.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Several observations on this IS article:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1) The campaign to enslave Yazidi women is genocidal in that it is part of a greater effort to end the existence of the Yazidi people:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article states that the existence of the Yazidis is something for which God will judge Muslims:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Upon conquering the region of Sinjar in Wil?yat N?naw?, the Islamic State faced a population of Yazidis, a pagan minority existent for ages in regions of Iraq and Sh?m. Their continual existence to this day is a matter that Muslims should question as they will be asked about it on Judgment Day, considering that Allah had revealed ?yat as-Sayf (the verse of the sword) over 1400 years ago.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Islamic State also see the enslavement project as a means of forcing Yazidis to renounce their identity and convert to Islam:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Many of the mushrik women and children have willingly accepted Islam and now race to practice it with evident sincerity after their exit from the darkness of shirk.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ras?lull?h (sallall?hu \u2018alayhi wa sallam) said, \u201cAllah marvels at a people who enter Jannah in chains\u201d [reported by al-Bukh?r? on the authority of Ab? Hurayrah]. The had?th commentators mentioned that this refers to people entering Islam as slaves and then entering Jannah.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ab? Hurayrah (radiyall?hu \u2018anh) said while commenting on Allah\u2019s words, {You are the best nation produced for mankind} [?li \u2018Imr?n: 110], \u201cYou are the best people for people. You bring them with chains around their necks, until they enter Islam\u201d [Sah?h al-Bukh?ri].<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>2) The Islamic State differentiates between a) People of the Book (non-Islamic religions receiving some rights and protection), b) religious groups that were originally Muslim but that have apostatized, and c) religious groups that were &#8220;originally polytheistic:&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Prior to the taking of Sinjar, Shar?\u2019ah students in the Islamic State were tasked to research the Yazidis to determine if they should be treated as an originally mushrik group or one that originated as Muslims and then apostatized, due to many of the related Islamic rulings that would apply to the group, its individuals, and their families. Because of the Arabic terminologies used by this group either to describe themselves or their beliefs, some contemporary Muslim scholars have classified them as possibly an apostate sect, not an originally mushrik religion, but upon further research, it was determined that this group is one that existed since the pre-Islamic j?hiliyyah, but became \u201cIslamized\u201d by the surrounding Muslim population, language, and culture, although they never accepted Islam nor claimed to have adopted it. The apparent origin of the religion is found in the Magianism of ancient Persia, but reinterpreted with elements of Sabianism, Judaism, and Christianity, and ultimately expressed in the heretical vocabulary of extreme Sufism.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Accordingly, the Islamic State dealt with this group as the majority of fuqah?\u2019 have indicated how mushrik?n should be dealt with. Unlike the Jews and Christians, there was no room for jizyah payment. Also, their women could be enslaved unlike female apostates who the majority of the fuqah?\u2019 say cannot be enslaved and can only be given an ultimatum to repent or face the sword.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>3) The IS article justifies their enslavement of polytheist women through their interpretation of the practice of the early Islamic community:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article invokes the practice of <em>khums<\/em> originating with the earliest battles of Islam in which 1\/5 of the war booty was set aside for the Prophet Mohammed (i.e. the &#8220;state&#8221;):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>After capture, the Yazidi women and children were then divided according to the Shar?\u2019ah amongst the fighters of the Islamic State who participated in the Sinjar operations, after one fifth of the slaves were transferred to the Islamic State\u2019s authority to be divided as khums.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The enslaved Yazidi families are now sold by the Islamic State soldiers as the mushrik?n were sold by the Companions (radiyall?hu \u2018anhum) before them. Many well-known rulings are observed, including the prohibition of separating a mother from her young children.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the Islamic State&#8217;s point of view, any Muslim who tries to interpret the practice of the early Islamic community in a different way, in order to condemn the practice of slavery, speaks in direct contradiction to the Qur&#8217;an and the Prophet and has therefore left Islam:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Before Shayt?n reveals his doubts to the weak-minded and weak hearted, one should remember that enslaving the families of the kuff?r and taking their women as concubines is a firmly established aspect of the Shar?\u2019ah that if one were to deny or mock, he would be denying or mocking the verses of the Qur\u2019?n and the narrations of the Prophet (sallall?hu \u2018alayhi wa sallam), and thereby apostatizing from Islam.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>4) In the view of the Islamic State, reviving the practice of slavery is actually a desirable goal with tangible spiritual benefits. They believe that slavery helps men avoid sexual sin because it enables them to avoid prohibited forms of extramarital sex. They underscore that it is impermissible to sleep with a hired household maid (a widespread occurrence in some countries where maids who become pregnant are often punished\/imprisoned), yet sleeping with one&#8217;s concubine (who will have the same duties as the maid) is permissible:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Finally, a number of contemporary scholars have mentioned that the desertion of slavery had led to an increase in f?hishah (adultery, fornication, etc.), because the shar\u2019? alternative to marriage is not available, so a man who cannot afford marriage to a free woman finds himself surrounded by temptation towards sin. In addition, many Muslim families who have hired maids to work at their homes, face the fitnah of prohibited khalwah (seclusion) and resultant zin? occurring between the man and the maid, whereas if she were his concubine, this relationship would be legal. This again is from the consequences of abandoning jih?d and chasing after the duny?, wall?hul-musta\u2019?n.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Must-See Human Rights Watch Report<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Coinciding with IS&#8217; own admission of the practice, HRW has just released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2014\/10\/11\/iraq-forced-marriage-conversion-yezidis\" target=\"_blank\">an excellent report<\/a> on kidnapped and enslaved Yazidis that should be read in its entirety. A separate page has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/multimedia.hrw.org\/distribute\/vhbwdszpme\" target=\"_blank\">video footage<\/a> containing extensive interviews with survivors, available with English and Arabic subtitles.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Islamic State Captives in Iraq: Prisoners Forced to Convert, Girls Forced to Marry\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZRk09u2uIJM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Matthew Barber I first began tweeting about the Islamic State&#8217;s campaign to kidnap and enslave Yazidi women when I was in Iraq this past August. Though analysts were skeptical and online jihadists who defend IS vehemently denied my claims, I was communicating with the families of the kidnapped women and with those engaged in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":21477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50,30,256,120,73,321],"tags":[456,316,450,329,464,477,322],"class_list":["post-21476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-extremist-groups","category-iraq","category-isis","category-matthew-barber","category-women","category-yazidis","tag-iraq","tag-is","tag-kurds","tag-slavery","tag-women","tag-yazidis","tag-yezidis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.8.1 - 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