Nigeria Massacre: The Islamic Movement and Its Discontents

On Saturday, December 12, several hundred — and possibly upwards of a thousand — people were gunned down in the streets and in their homes in the northern Nigerian city of Zaria.

30 December 2015
 
While the exact number may be unclear, what is certain is that what occurred was nothing short of a massacre. What makes this different than the other horrors that have been visited on northern Nigeria in recent years is that the group responsible isn't Boko Haram, it's the Nigerian army. And that fact, along with the group targeted, the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, is what has informed the reaction — and lack thereof — of the international media and governments the world over, as well as human rights organizations and NGO's.

Christians worldwide turn to Russia for protection

At no time in history has the persecution of Christians been as intense and widespread as it is now. 

Christians in the Middle East are in dire need of a champion, which, in today’s world can only be a great power, and it is Russia that has taken on that responsibility.

SAUDI WOMAN GANG-RAPED, COURT GIVES HER 200 LASHES AND JAIL TERM

The Victim is Raped and then lashed!!

This is just about how ridiculous and dumb the Saudi-Islamic-Shariat law is: A woman can never ever get justice under such a legal system, as first she herself will stand accused for" going out alone". Horrendous. 

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SAUDI WOMAN GANG-RAPED, COURT GIVES HER 200 LASHES AND JAIL TERM

By Amando Flavio

http://www.middleeastrising.com/saudi-woman-gang-raped-court-gives-her-200-lashes-and-jail-term/

A court in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has sentenced a woman who was gang-raped by seven men to 200 lashes and six months in jail after being found guilty of speaking to the media about the crime and indecency.

According to the account of the story reported by the Middle East Monitor, the 19-year-old Shia woman was in the car of a student friend when two men got into the vehicle and drove them to a secluded area, where she was raped by the seven men.

She was initially sentenced to 90 lashes for being in a car of a man who was not related to her. Commentators say Saudi Arabia’s law dictates that a male family member must accompany a woman at all times in public.

The Press TV reports that the rapists were surprisingly sentenced to five years in prison. And it is unclear why the rapists were handed this light sentence, considering the fact that they could have faced the death penalty.

Lawyer for the woman, Abdul Rahman al-Lahem, appealed to the Saudi General Court after the sentence was handed down. However, the court reviewed the sentence, increasing it to 200 lashes. The court held that the woman had spoken to the media. The lawyer was also banned from the case; his license was confiscated, and was summoned to a disciplinary hearing.

After this new ruling, court officials said in a statement published on the official Saudi Press Agency“For whoever has an objection on verdicts issued, the system allows to appeal without resorting to the media”.

The verdict has been criticized by a number of activists and human rights organizations around the world. Human Rights Watch condemned the ruling, saying it creates grounds for perpetrators of sexual violence against women to continue their crime.

“Not only sends victims of sexual violence the message that they should not press charges, but in effect offers protection and impunity to the perpetrators”, the organization said in a statement.

But the Kingdom replied such criticisms, faulting the woman for going out without a male family member.

The Saudi Ministry of Justice said in a statement “The Ministry of Justice welcomes constructive criticism, away from emotions”.

In September 2014, the United Nations (UN) elected Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the UN, Faisal Tradas the new Chairman for the UN Human Rights Council Panel.

The UN Watch, a non-governmental watchdog organization based in Geneva, urged the US ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power and EU foreign minister, Federica Mogherini to speak against, and lobby for the appointment to be reversed due to Saudi Arabia’s poor human rights record.

“It is scandalous that the UN chose a country that has beheaded more people this year than ISIS to be head of a key human rights panel. Petro-dollars and politics have trumped human rights. Saudi Arabia has arguably the worst record in the world when it comes to religious freedom and women’s rights, and continues to imprison the innocent blogger Raif Badawi”, the organization said.

Good Read: The ‘Anti-Imperialist’ Who Got Libya Wrong Serves Up The Same Failed Analysis on Syria

By Stephen Gowans

Paris Match: Many people say the solution lies in your departure. Do you believe that your departure is the solution?

Syrian president Assad: What was the result (of NATO policy when they attacked Gaddafi)? Chaos ensued after Gaddafi’s departure. So, was the departure the solution? Have things improved, and has Libya become a democracy? [1]

Russia and India support Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity — joint statement

Russian President Vladimir Putin has pointed to the proximity of positions Moscow and New Delhi take on acute international issues
 

MOSCOW, December 24 /TASS/. 

 

Russia and India have voiced staunch support for Syria’s sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a joint statement after talks in Moscow. 

 

The sides agreed that the internal armed conflict in Syria cannot be resolved by force and can be settled only by political and diplomatic means - through substantive intra-Syrian dialogue without any preliminary conditions or external interference and on the basis of the Geneva Communique of June 30, 2012; the Joint Statement on results of multilateral talks on Syria in Vienna of October 30, 2015 and a statement of the International Syria Support Group adopted on November 14, 2015, the document said. 

 

Russia and India voiced resolute and decisive support for the people and government of Iraq in their efforts to overcome the current crisis and defend the country’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity, the Russian and Indian leaders said in their joint statement stressing the importance of reaching national reconciliation and unity in Iraq by forming an inclusive state system and strengthening national democratic institutions by creation of relevant opportunities.  

 

"It is important Russia and India make similar approaches to key international problems. Our countries are for a political settlement of the conflict in Syria and promotion of national reconciliation in Afghanistan," Putin told the media after talks with India’s visiting Prime Minister Narendra Modi. "We are certain that it is in the interests of the world community to form a wide anti-terrorist coalition operating on the basis of international law and under the auspices of the United Nations," Putin said. 

 

The Russian leader said that Moscow would like to see India’s still greater role in addressing global and regional issues. "We believe that India is a great power that conducts a balanced and responsible foreign policy and is one of the most worthy candidates for taking the seat of a permanent member on the UN Security Council," Putin said. 

 

He recalled that Moscow had "strongly supported India’s accession to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and that the two countries were actively cooperating within the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), where India will take the rotating presidency in February 2016. 

 
More:http://tass.ru/en/politics/846784

Jewish extremist leader says Christmas has 'no place' in the Holy Land

Faith and anti-racism groups call for police investigation into incitement to violence after Lehava head calls for Christian 'vampires' to be expelled from Israel and Christmas banned.

Mr Gopstein, a religious settler, has also been questioned by police after making comments appearing to justify burning down Christian churches, following an arson attack on the Church of the Multiplication of Loaves and Fishes in Galilee in June.

By Inna Lazareva, Tel Aviv

4:16PM GMT 22 Dec 2015

Amnesty Publishes a Biased Report about Russia's Campaign in Syria

Report makes wild allegations of war crimes without substantiating evidence.

As Amnesty says, its report was researched “remotely”.

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Amnesty International has just released a report accusing the Russian authorities of “shamefully concealing” large numbers of civilian deaths caused by Russian air strikes in Syria.

The report also says the Russians might be committing war crimes in Syria.

The Russians have responded to the report by saying it is littered with cliches.

Putin’s Progress in Syria Sends Kerry Scampering to the United Nations

By Mike Whitney

“It is remarkable that western leaders only remember the term ceasefire when their rebels on the ground are losing. Why didn’t they see the need for peace in Syria before the Russian operation started?”
— Iyad Khuder, Damascus-based political analyst

December 23, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - "Counterpunch" - Imagine if the American people elected a president who was much worse than George W. Bush or Barack Obama. A real tyrant. Would that be sufficient justification for someone like Vladimir Putin to arm and train Mexican and Canadian mercenaries to invade America, kill US civilians, destroy cities and critical infrastructure, seize vital oil refineries and pipeline corridors, behead government officials and prisoners they’d captured, declare their own independent state, and do everything in their power to overthrow the elected-government in Washington?

Why the West Can Never Defeat or “Forgive” Russia

Historically and intuitively, Russia has fought for the survival of humanity. Of course, things are not always pronounced or defined in such terms. However, already on several occasions, this enormous country has stood up against the most mighty and evil forces that have threatened the very survival of our Planet.

During the Second World War, the Soviet people, mainly Russians, sacrificed at least 25 million men, women and children, in the end defeating Nazism. No other country in modern history has undergone more.

Military to Military US Intelligence Sharing in the Syrian War

By Seymour M. Hersh

December 21, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - "LRB" - Barack Obama’s repeated insistence that Bashar al-Assad must leave office – and that there are ‘moderate’ rebel groups in Syria capable of defeating him – has in recent years provoked quiet dissent, and even overt opposition, among some of the most senior officers on the Pentagon’s Joint Staff. Their criticism has focused on what they see as the administration’s fixation on Assad’s primary ally, Vladimir Putin. In their view, Obama is captive to Cold War thinking about Russia and China, and hasn’t adjusted his stance on Syria to the fact both countries share Washington’s anxiety about the spread of terrorism in and beyond Syria; like Washington, they believe that Islamic State must be stopped.

Putin and Israel – a Complex and Multi-layered Relationship

By The Saker

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43803.htm

December 24, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - "The Saker" - The recent murder of Samir Kuntar by Israel has, yet again, inflamed the discussion about Putin’s relation to Israel. 

This is an immensely complicated topic and those who like simple, canned, “explanations” should stop reading right now.  The truth is, the relationship between Russia and Israel and, even before that, between Jews and Russians would deserve an entire book. 

In fact, Alexander Solzhenitsyn has written exactly such a book, it is entitled “200 years together”, but due to the iron grip of the Zionists on the Anglo media, it has still not been translated into English. That should already tell you something right there

The real story behind the killing of Samir Kuntar

Hezbollah's high-profile figure was setting up a resistance movement in the Golan Heights against Israeli occupation.

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Beirut, Lebanon - Amid an array of Lebanese, Palestinian and Hezbollah flags, thousands gathered in Beirut's southern suburbs on Monday to attend the funeral of Samir Kantar, 54, a high-profile member of the Lebanese movement Hezbollah, who was killed in a suspected Israeli air strike in neighbouring Syria.

The crowd marched behind the coffin - shrouded in Hezbollah's yellow flag - as residents and mourners alike threw flower petals from the neighbouring balconies.

"His death will not stop the resistance against the enemy," said Abdallah, one mourner attending the funeral.

Moscow pledges help to Syrian Kurds, but through Assad government

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday that Moscow is ready to back Kurdish forces fighting ISIS in Syria, but only in coordination with the Syrian government, Turkey’s official Anadolu Agency reported.

Demirtas' visit to Moscow comes amid soured relations between Turkey and Russia over the downing of a Russian jet last month.

The Race for Syria's Northern Border - Pepe Escobar

If Damascus - or the Kurds - secures the last stretch of Syria-Turkey border it's game over for Ankara's influence in Syria

Who is the supreme profiteer of the Russia-Turkey drama? No question: it’s the Empire of Chaos. A desperate Ankara increasingly depends on NATO’s embrace.

In the crucial Pipelineistan arena, the Turkish Stream project has been suspended (but not canceled). Eurasia integration – the key 21st century project for both China and Russia – is severely hampered.

ISIS, Al Qaeda And The CIA: The Documented Connection By Tyler Durden

ISIS, Al Qaeda And The CIA: The Documented Connection

By Tyler Durden

Zero Hedge

December 19, 2015

The Middle East is fertile ground for conspiracy theories, and one growing to towering heights these days says the US created the Islamic State.  But while the US may well have aided ISIS in its formative days with covert supplies of weapons and CIA funding (directly or indirectly, via Turkey leading political families) the one nation most responsible for iteration after iteration of “terrorist organizations” is Saudi Arabia which “created” not only the Islamic State, but al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, and many other Sunni Jihadist groups in Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, India, Pakistan.

The US has long been aware of this, of course, and it has provided material support to some of them in the distant past, for example to the Taliban in the war against Russia.  But the more reasonable among us have questioned recent claims that the US intentionally created the Islamic State, a group of the same lineage as the Saudi terrorists responsible for 9/11.

Those rejecting a direct link between the US and the Islamic State instead ask a perfectly logical question: why would the US allow a country ruled by monarchs with dark-age-sensibilities get away with attacking us on 9/11, funding al-Qadea in Iraq (a group that killed a few thousand US soldiers), and now the Islamic State?  Two answers: fat, senile Saudi kings are preferable to the Islamic monsters that would replace them in a regime change, and the Bush family/Carlyle Group would prefer not to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.

Thanks to the resurrection of “J Pierpont Morgan”, these doubts and questions are no longer reasonable.  They are, in fact, irrelevant.  Because J Pierpont Morgan, apparently experiencing a Scrooge-like transformation, has seen the light.  Yesterday he tweeted three public source documents that conclusively show a Senior CIA Spy- a major figure in operations from South America to the Middle East-is lobbying the US Government to destroy Iraq and formally create an independent Sunnistan on behalf of a Sunni terrorist.

That terrorist joined the Iraq insurgency in 2004 under the Al-Qaeda Iraq banner, and was given hundreds of millions of dollars by the CIA and CENTCOM to defect, joining the US-led coalition in the now famous “Surge.”  Known as H.E. Shaykh Abdalrazzaq Hatem al-Sulayman, this self-described prince is the head of a 4 million strong (mostly Sunni) tribe in Anbar, and lived the high life on US taxpayer money- that is until Obama declared AQ and AQI dead, bolted from Iraq and pivoted toward Asia.  No CIA.  No Surge.  No money.  Just the wasteland that is Anbar, and a Baghdad government intent on consolidating power at Sulayman’s expense.

His Eminence, with his children in need of Bugatti supercars, flats in London, multiple Vertu mobiles, and an entourage of slaves, did what any good dad would: he created an insurgency called The Anbar Tribes Revolutionary Council in 2013, and solicited funds from Sunni Monarchs and individuals throughout the GCC.  The goal: destroy Baghdad and restore the Sunni to power in Iraq.  His allies: the Ba’ath and ISIS.

In late 2014 Sulayman connected with Jonathan Greenhill, “former” Senior Operations Officer at the CIA who set up shop in DC as a lobbyist.  Makes sense.  CIA Spy since the early 1980s, probably living oversees under non-official-cover, comes home to lobby Congress.  Anyway, Mr. Greenhill incorporated the Greenhill Group, and Sulayman retained him.  One wonders how Sulayman became aware of Greenhill’s lobbying venture. 

Mr. Greenhill’s LinkedIn page says he “conceptualized and executed one of the Agency’s most successful counterterrorism covert action operations while leading a CIA Base in an exceptionally dangerous, high stress war zone environment.”  Might that be the Surge?  Might Mr. Greenhill have played a role in funneling hundreds of millions of dollars to members of the AQ Iraq insurgency like Sulayman?

Oddly enough, Mr. Greenhill has a Facebook page too.

Who knows?  What we do know is one of the most important spies in the CIA, one with a major role in the Near East (probably Iraq), definitely was retained as a lobbyist by Sulayman.  And Sulayman retained him to “create an autonomous Sunni region in Iraq or an independent Sunni State.”  In other words, destroy Iraq by formally creating and recognizing Sunni-Jihadi-stan.  Or a safe-zone for Sunni terrorists.  Or what it actually is, a caliphate.  It was recently written in the Washington Post that many Shia Iraqis harbor the conspiratorial belief the US created the Islamic State to destroy Iraq.  Conspiracy theory becomes conspiracy fact.

h/t @pierpont_morgan

Reprinted with permission from Zero Hedge.

Yazidi Community, Nadia Murad, victim of ISIS - a powerful testimony

Nadia Murad delivers her powerful message to the UN Security Council.

Heart wrenching testimony of Yezidi woman before UN (no comment Samantha Power) https://www.facebook.com/DemandforAction/posts/492899270889546 

We as Muslims must condemn the forced conversion to Islam!!
"Yazidis have been exposed to campaigns of forced Islamization and assimilation, according to the Turkish sociologist Ismail Besikci, a prominent expert on Kurdistan:

 
"During the 1912-13 Pontic Greek deportations and the 1915 Armenian genocide, Yazidis were also driven out from their lands. Throughout the history of republican Turkey, all methods have been tried to Islamize the Yazidis. Before 1915, for instance, Suruc was an entirely Yazidi town. So was the town of Viransehir. Today, there is not a single Yazidi left in Suruc. Furthermore, the Islamized Yazidis can be seen exhibit insulting behavior towards those who remain Yazidis."

 
Because they are Kurds, the state has not recognized their Kurdishness; and because they are Yazidis, the state has not recognized their religion.

Nadia's participation in this important event was coordinated by Yazda. Nadia was accompanied by Murad Ismael of Yazda, to deliver her speech. Please find her written speech below.

Mr. President
Ladies and gentlemen, delegates of the Security Council, good afternoon.

I would like to thank the United States for calling for this debate and for inviting me to speak.
It is with great sadness, gratitude and hope that I stand before you today as one of the few survivors of one of the world’s oldest ethnic and religious group now threatened by extinction.

I am here today to speak on the way the so-called Islamic State trafficked us, transformed the Yazidi women into sex slaves, and the way IS committed a genocide against my people. I am here to tell what has happened to me and my community that lost hope is headed to the unknown, I am here also to speak on behalf of those who remain in captivity.

I am here to speak about a global terrorist organization that came to end our existence, culture and freedom, to speak about the nightmare that changed life for a community, overnight.

Before August 3, 2014, I was living with my family in Kocho village with my single mother and brothers and sisters, our village was beautiful, we were living in peace. But on August 3rd, the militants of the Islamic State attacked our areas and we found ourselves faced with a brutal genocide. These large groups of armed men of various nationalities in uniforms with weapons had decided that the Yazidis were infidels and had to be eradicated. 

The Islamic State didn’t come to kill the women and girls, but to use us as spoils of war, as objects to be sold with little or to be gifted for free.

Their cruelty was not merely opportunistic. The IS soldiers came with a pre-established policy to commit such crimes.

Islamic State had one intention, to destroy the Yazidi identity by force, rape, recruitment of children, and destruction of holy sites they captured, especially against the Yazidi woman where the used rape as a mean of destruction for Yazidi women and girls and ensuring these women will never return to a normal life.

On August 15th, the militants called us to the school building, where they separated men from us; I witnessed from the second floor of the school, they took the men and killed them, including six of my biological and step brothers who were killed, and three who escaped the mass killing with creator blessing.

We, the women and the children, were driven away to another area. Along the way, they insulted us; they were forcefully touching women and girls.

I was taken with some other 150 girls to Mosul, in a building in Mosul, there were thousands of Yazidi women and children who were previously captured by IS to be offered as gifts.

A militant approached me, he said they would take me, I was looking down, I was terrified, when I looked up, I saw a big man, he looked like a minister. I cried, I said I don't want you, I told him you are too big for me, I am a little girl. Another militant walked in, I was still looking down, I saw his feet, he had small feet, I begged him to take me for himself, I was so scared of the big militant.

The one who took me asked me to convert, I did not, he then one day asked me for "marriage", I told him I am sick, most of the captive women there had their menstrual period due to the fears. Then he one day forced me to dress for him and put on makeup, I did, and during that black night, he did it.

He forced me to serve his militant squad; he insulted me by forcing me to dress improperly. I was unable to bear more rape and torture, I decided to escape, but I failed and I was captured by one of the guards.

That night, he beat me, forced me to undress, and put me in a room with six militants. They continued to commit crimes to my body until I became unconscious.

After three months of abduction, finally I was able to escape. Now, I live in Germany. Thanks to Germany who accepted to treat me.

But it was not only me who suffered, it was a collective suffering, the Islamic State gave us two choices, convert or die, for those who accepted to convert fearing their lives, their men were killed, women were enslaved and children were recruited.

To date, 16 mass graves have been found, including a mass grave of 80 women which contained the remains of my mother, who they didn’t desire, therefore decided to kill. More than 400,000 Yazidis are displaced, more than 40 percent of our areas remain under control of IS, and the liberated areas are not habitable because of the destruction and Yazidi fears to return and live in their homes with peace.

Over the past week only, more than 70 Yazidi women and children drowned on their way through dangerous paths to Europe, thousands are seeking an exodus, and great percentage see immigration is the only choice.
Mrs. President, Ladies and gentlemen

The Islamic State has made the Yazidi women a fuel for human trafficking.
I am presenting to you our requests and I have hope that humanity has not died, yet:

1- Bring back more than 3400 women and children currently suffering under the mercy of those who lost every bit of mercy.

2- Recognized the mass killing, enslavement and human trafficking committed as genocide, I appeal to you to find a way to open a case before the International Criminal Court.

3- Liberate our land, Liberate Kocho so that Kocho people can bury the remains of their dead, provide Yazidi Areas and other threaten minorities Areas with international protection so we can return one day and live in peace, I also request that you allocate an international fund to compensate victims and build our areas.

4- Open your borders for my community, we are victims of genocide and we have the right to seek a safe place where our dignity will be preserved. We request that to give Yazidis and other threatened minorities the choice to resettle, especially to the victims of human trafficking, as Germany Did.

5- Bring an end to IS. I have seen them; I have lived the pain they caused. We have to bring all human traffickers criminals and those who committed genocide to justice so that the women and children in Nigeria, Syria, Somalia, and everywhere in the world can live in peace. These crimes against women and their freedom shall stop now. 

سيدي الرئيس
السادة والسيدات ممثلي دول المجلس، طاب يومكم.
أشكر الولايات المتحدة على إقامة هذه الجلسة ودعوتي للتحدث امامكم.

بالحزن والامتنان والأمل انا هنا اليوم اقف، ناجية ايزيدية وابنة واحدا من اقدم الاديان المهددة بالزوال.
أنا هنا اليوم لاتحدث عن ممارسات ما يسمى بالدولة الإسلامية ضدنا، من الاتجار بالبشر، استخدام نسائنا للاستعباد الجنسي، وتجنيد أطفالنا للحرب، التشرد وارتكاب جريمة ألابادة الجماعية بحقنا، انا هنا لأخبركم عن ما حدث لي وعن ما حدث لمجتمعي الذي فقد الامل بالحياة وصار يتجه الى المجهول. انا هنا ايضا لاتحدث بأسم اكثر من 3400 طفل وامرأة لا يزالوا تحت الخطف.

أنا هنا لاتحدث لكم عن هذه المنظمة الارهابية العالمية التي أتت الينا لتقضي على وجودنا، على ثقافتا، وعلى حريتنا. انا هنا لاتحدث عن الكابوس الذي غير حياة مجتمع كامل بين ليلة وضحاها.

قبل الثالث من أب 2014، كنت اعيش مع عائلتي في قرية كوجو، مع أمي الوحيدة واخوتي وأخواني، كانت قريتنا جميلة وكنا نعيش بسلام. ولكن في الثالث من أب قامت ميليشا الدولة الاسلامية بالهجوم على مناطقنا ووجدنا أنفسنا امام إبادة حقيقية، هذه المجاميع الكبيرة من قوى الشر، اتوا من الكثير من الدول، بالاسلحة والاعتدة والملابس العسكرية، وكان غايتهم هي انهاء الوجود الايزيدي برمته، بالاستنادا الى تفسيرهم باننا كفار.

أتت الدولة الاسلامية ليس فقط لتقتلنا نحن النساء والبنات، ولكن لاخذنا كغنائم حرب، كاداوت لتباع بالاسواق مقابل القليل من المال او حتى دون مقابل.
هذا الاجرام الذي ارتكب لم يكن اجراما عابرا، ولكن كانت سياسة ممنهجة ومسبقة التخطيط.

الدولة الاسلامية اتت بدافع وحيد، وهو تدمير الهوية الايزيدية باستخدام القوة، الاغتصاب، تجند الاطفال، وتدمير جميع معابدنا الذي استولوا عليها. وكل هذا لا يمكن تفسيرها سوى انها كانت بالفعل ابادة جماعية ضد هويتنا، وخاصة ضد المرأة الايزيدية حيث استخدموا الاغتصاب كوسيلة لتدمير النساء والبنات وتاكيد بان هولاء النساء لن يعودوا الى حياتهم الطبيعية بعد ألان.

في 15 من أب قامت عناصر الدولة الأسلامية بدعوتنا جميعا الى مدرسة القرية، حيث قاموا بتفريق الرجال من النساء والأطفال، رأيتهم ومن الطابق الثاني للمدرسة، اخذوا الرجال وقاموا بتصفيتهم، 6 من اخواني قتلوا و3 منهم نجوا من القتل الجماعي.

نحن النساء , والاطفال، أخذونا في المركبات من المدرسة الى منطقة أخرى، وفي الطريق كانوا يقومون بأهانتنا، كانوا يلمسوننا بطريقة تخش الحياء.
قاموا بأخذي الى الموصل مع اكثر من 150 امرأة ايزيدية أخرى، وفي بناية كبيرة هناك، كانت هناك الالاف من النساء الايزيديات والأطفال يتم اعطائهم كهدايا.
عنصر من عناصرهم اقترب مني، وقال يريد ان يأخذني، كنت انظر الى الأرض، كنت في حالة رعب، وعندما رفعت رأسي وجدت رجلا ضخما جدا، كان بالفعل كوحش مفترس، صرخت وبكيت كثيرا، وقلت له انني صغيرة لك وانت ضخم جدا، فقام بركلي وضربي. بعدها بلحظات اقدم عنصر اخر، وكنت لا أزال انظر الى الأرض، فرأيت حجم اقدامه اصغر، فتوصلت الى الشخص حتى يأخذني لنفسه، كنت خائفة جدا من الرجل الضخم الأول.

الذي قام بأخذي، طلب من ان أغير ديني، ولكنني رفضت، وبعدها أتى في يوم وطلب مني ما يسمونه "الزواج"، قلت له بأنني مريضة، فأغلب النساء الختطفات كانت لديها الدورة الشهرية من شدة الخوف. مرت أيام قليلة، واجبرني ان البس له، واضع له المكياج على وجهي، وفي تلك الليلة السوداء، فعلها.
اجبرني ان اخدم فصيله العسكري، وقام بأهانتي كل يوم، أجبرني ان البس ما لا يحفظ جسدي. لم اكن قادرة على تحمل المزيد من الاغتصاب والتعذيب، قررت ان اهروب ولكن احد الحراس كان هناك، وقام بمسكي.

في تلك الليلة قام بضربي، وطلب مني ان اتخلى عن ملابسي، ووضعوني مع الحراس في الغرفة، واستمروا بارتكاب جرائمهم بجسدي حتى فقدت الوعي.
بعد ثلاثة اشهر من الخطف، استطعت أخيرا الهروب، الان أعيش في المانيا التي قبلت معالجتي مشكورة.
لم أكن أعيش المعاناة لوحدي، كانت معاناة جماعية، حيث قامت الدولة الإسلامية باعطاءنا خيارين، الأسلمة او الموت، حتى أولئك الذين اعلنوا اسلامهم خوفا على حياتهم، تم أيضا قتل الرجال منهم وسبي النساء وتجنيد الأطفال.

اكتشف الى الأن 16 مقبرة جماعية، بما فيها مقبرة ل 80 أمراة لم يرغبوهم فقاموا بقتلهم، وتم تشريد اكثر من 400 الف، اكثر من 40 بالمئة من مناطقنا لا تزال تحت سيطرة الدولة الأسلامية، ومناطقنا المحررة غير مهيئة للعيش فيها بسبب الدمار وبسبب عدم ثقة الأنسان الايزيدي بالعيش على ارضه مرة أخرى.
خلال الأسبوع الماضي فقط، غرق اكثر من 70 أيزيدي في طريقهم عبر طرق خطرة نحو اوربا، الالاف يبحثون عن مخرج ونسبة كبيرة تجد الهجرة الخيار الوحيد.
سيدي الرئيس، السيدات والسادة

لقد جعلت الدولة ألاسلامية من للمرأة الايزيدية وقود للاتجار بالبشر.
أتقدم اليكم اليوم بمطاليبنا وانا لدي ألامل بان الإنسانية لم تنتهي بعد:

1. تحرير اكثر من 3400 أمراة وطفل لايزالوا يعيشون المعاناة تحت رحمة من لا رحمة لهم.
2. نطالب ان يتم تعريف ما حدث من القتل والاستعباد الجماعي والاتجار بالبشر على انها إبادة جماعية، التمس منكم اليوم ان تجدوا الحلول لفتح ملف الإبادة امام المحكمة الدولية.

3. تحرير جميع مناطقنا، تحرير كوجو حتى يستطيع أهل كوجو دفن موتاهم، توفير حماية دولية لمناطق الأيزيدية والأقليات المهددة حتى نستطيع ان نعود يوما الى مناطقنا ونعيش بسلام، كما واطالب بتخصيص ميزانية دولية تحت اشراف دولي لتعويض الضحايا وبناء المنطقة.

4. افتحوا أبواب بلدانكم لمجتمعي، فنحن ضحايا الإبادة ومن حقنا البحث عن بلد أمن يحفظ كرامتنا، كل يوم يخاطر المئات من الناس بحياتهم، نلتمس منكم ان تعطوا خيار إعادة التوطين الايزيدية والأقليات الأخرى المهددة وخاصة لضحايا الاتجار بالبشر كما فعلت المانيا.

5. انهاء داعش نهاية ابدية، انا عشت الألم الذي سببوا لي، رأيت شرهم. يجب ان يتم جلب جميع مرتكبي جرائم الأتجار بالبشر والابادة الى العدالة، حتى تعيش المرأة والطفلة بأمان في العراق، سوريا، نيجيريا، صوماليا، وكل مكان في العالم. يجب ان تتوقف الأن هذه الجرائم ضد المرأة وضد حريتها

Turkey-Erdogan-ISIS Oil Trade, Global Markets: Research Paper

Here is more on the ISIS terrorist oil trade. 

1) a statement by Putin, 

2) a statement by a Turkish legislator, 

3) a study from the Univ. of Greenwich, London.

ISIS EXPORT GATEWAY TO GLOBAL CRUDE OIL MARKETS George KIOURKTSOGLOU* 

Visiting Lecturer, University of Greenwich, London Dr Alec D COUTROUBIS Principal Lecturer, University of Greenwich, London

 

To sum it up, ISIS is financed by oil transport to a Turkish government oil loading facility in the port of Ceyhan. This ISIS oil trade center is a few miles from the major US operations center at Incirlik, Turkey.

1) "Vehicles, carrying oil, lined up in a chain going beyond the horizon. The views resemble a living oil pipe stretched from ISIS and rebel controlled areas of Syria into Turkey. Day and night they are going to Turkey. Trucks always go there loaded, and back from there – empty. We are talking about a commercial-scale supply of oil from the occupied Syrian territories seized by terrorists. It is from these areas [that oil comes from], and not with any others. And we can see it from the air, where these vehicles are going. We assume that the top political leadership of Turkey might not know anything about this hard to believe, if the top political leadership doesn’t know anything about this, let them find out." - Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin

2) “$800 million worth of oil that ISIS obtained from regions it occupied this year [in northern Syria and most recently Mosul] is being sold in Turkey. They have laid pipes from villages near the Turkish border at Hatay. Similar pipes exist also at [the Turkish border regions of] Kilis, Urfa and Gaziantep. They transfer the oil to Turkey and parlay it into cash. They take the oil from the refineries at zero cost. Using primitive means, they refine the oil in areas close to the Turkish border and then sell it via Turkey. This is worth $800 million. ISIL holds the key to these deposits and together with a certain group of persons, consisting of those close to Barzani and some Turkish businessmen, they are engaged in selling this oil." - Ali Ediboglu Turkish member of Parliament.

3) "The port of Ceyhan plays host to a marine oil terminal that is situated in the Turkish Mediterranean and has been operating since 2006. It receives hydrocarbons for further loading in tankers, which carry the commodity to world markets.The authors of the present paper believe that there is another proxy-indicator, far more sensitive to quantities of ultracheap smuggled crude. This is the charter rates for tankers loading at Ceyhan.

From July 2014 until February 2015, the curve of [charter rate] TD 19 features three unusual spikes that do not match the trends featured by the rest of the Middle East trade-routes (see Graph IV):

The first spike develops from the 10th of July 2014 until the 21st, lasting approximately ten days. It coincides with the fall of Syria’s largest oil field, the AlOmar, in the hands of ISIS (Reuters 2014); 

The second spike takes place from the end of October until the end of November 2014, lasting one month. It happens at the same time with fierce fighting between fundamentalists and the Syrian army over the control of the Jhar and Mahr gas fields, as well as the Hayyan gas company in the east of Homs province (International Business Times 2014; Albawada News 214); 

The third spike lasts from the end of January 2015 until the 10th of February, stretching roughly ten days. It happens simultaneously with a sustained US-led campaign of airstrikes pounding ISIS strongholds in and around the town of Hawija east of the oil-rich Kirkuk (Rudaw 2015);

An additional manifestation of the invisible nexus between Ceyhan and ISIS became evident through the concurrent study of the tanker charter rates from the port and the timeline of the terrorists’ military engagements (see section 3.4 on this page). It seems that whenever the Islamic State is fighting in the vicinity of an area hosting oil assets, the 13 exports from Ceyhan promptly spike. This may be attributed to an extra boost given to crude oil smuggling with the aim of immediately generating additional funds, badly needed for the supply of ammunition and military equipment. " - from University of Greenwich, London academic paper titled: ISIS Gateway To Global Crude Oil Markets (see link to paper below)

http://www.marsecreview.com/…/PAPER-on-CRUDE-OIL-and-ISIS.p…

“ISIS Is A True Product Of Salafism" ~ Former Imam of Mecca

Former imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca: “ISIS Is A True Product Of Salafism And We Must Deal With It With Full Transparency”

Former imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca has announced that ISIS is the result of the Salafi version of Islam

Sheikh ‘Aadel Al-Kalbani, , and therefore there needs to be changes within the Salafi sect itself.

“ISIS is a true product of Salafism, and we must deal with it with full transparency.”  

This statement was made not by liberal Muslim elements, who regularly criticize Salafism, but by Sheikh ‘Aadel Al-Kalbani, former imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca and a Salafi himself, hence its importance. Al-Kalbani is not the first Salafi to come out against ISIS – other Saudis have condemned the organization’s conduct and operations – but Al-Kalbani has gone farther in his criticism: he has come out against the principles of the Salafi perception from which ISIS and its ilk draw, and has called for a rationalistic approach to Islam’s distant past and what it means for Islam today instead of a blind reenactment of it.

In two articles in the Saudi government daily Al-Riyadh, Al-Kalbani criticized elements in the Salafi stream for appropriating the truth and Islam and for permitting the killing of their opponents, and likewise criticized clerics and society that dared not come out against them. He stated that the call to blindly reenact the path of the Prophet Muhammad and of the forefathers of Islam stems from a faulty grasp of the essence of this path, and that Muhammad himself had rejected blind adoption of the perceptions of the past and blind following of the path of his predecessors, choosing instead a rationalistic approach appropriate for a changing reality. Al-Kalbani stated that clerics must take their heads out of the sand and move with the spirit of the times instead of rejecting and condemning any new idea.

This is not the first time that Al-Kalbani has challenged the mainstream Saudi clerics. He has harshly attacked suicide bombings, [1] published a fatwa permitting poetry,[2] and called for allowing women to drive cars.[3]

The following are translated excerpts from his two recent articles in Al-Riyadh:

“ISIS Is A True Product Of Salafism And We Must Deal With It With Full Transparency”

On August 15, 2014, Sheikh Al-Kalbani tweeted (@abuabdelelah): “ISIS is a true product of Salafism and we must deal with it with full transparency.” DIRECT LINK TO TWEET HERE.

This statement sparked reactions across the social networks, and 10 days later, on August 24, Al-Kalbani wrote in an Al-Riyadh article titled “Is Terrorism A Salafi Product?”: “Every time we see the fitna network sweeping up young people from among our sons… [and pitching them into] to a very deep abyss from which they will emerge only by means of idioms that drip blood, our conscience torments us and we wonder: From whence has this come upon us? How have they fallen into this? As if we could not do a thing before then.

“But the opposite is true: The main reason for their deviation is our neglect – and by ‘our’neglect I mean the [neglect of the] generation of the parents, and of the honorable members of society among the clerics, teachers, preachers, jurisprudents, and sociologists who are linked directly to that society. The words, the books, the sermons, the dramas, and all the artistic creativity and the essential link [to the audience] that these people present in all the media, whether print, radio, or television, [allow them] to monitor the ideas of the young people and to participate in balancing them. I exclude [of course] that tiniest of minorities whose throat is parched from warning about the extremism of theSalafis.

“Yes, this is the plant that has sprouted in the garbage dump of those who excessively pass judgment on others and pretend to represent Salafism. How gravely they have accused others of apostasy, of deviating from the right path, of heresy, and of licentiousness – as if the arena lies open before them and there is nobody to condemn them and no judge to punish them. Furthermore, they are received with feigned respect and admiration, and opportunities have been opened to them to plant in the minds of our young people that this one has gone astray and that one is an infidel and the other one is lax in religion. Even the greatest of clerics, past and present, are not spared their arrows. They spread the principles of Islam in a twisted manner that makes them incomprehensible or distorted, and preserve things that negate Islam. They measure the judge, the educated, and the student, and even the simple folk by what they [i.e. these extremists] have learned by heart [but] do not understand, and think that they are entitled to rule that the above mentioned are apostates and to call down upon them the punishments of Allah that are no longer implemented and [by so doing, they think that they will] restore the glory and splendor of monotheism.

“This group thinks that no one but itself and its supporters are the source of good and the defenders of monotheism – because [its members] imbibed with their mothers’milk [the view] that all Muslims worldwide do not understand [monotheism] and that they are not worshipping only Allah but are polytheists who worship graves… and that there are no just clerics besides their own clerics and their disciples. [They think that] only a cleric whom they love, whom they heed and obey, and on whose say they reject or validate [others] – only he holds the truth and acts in accordance with the ways of[Islam’s] just forefathers…They spread out and multiply, and publicly call for following in the footsteps of some sheikh and for accepting his words in full. They have begun to classify people, preachers, and clerics – [for example,] this sheikh shouldn’t be listened to because he is more loathsome than the Jews and the Christians, and that fatwa deviates [from the right path], so it is forbidden to pray behind anyone who adopts it, or to sit with him, eat with him or respect him. They have begun… to separate the young people from the clerics who understand the result of [this activity by them] and what difficulties they are going to cause the nation.

“Actually, there is no connection between the path of these extremists and the [true] path of the Salafis – which is tolerance, compassion, and gentleness, and in which there is no place for extremism and [religious] fanaticism. [Salafism] is a path that spreads love, brotherhood, and acceptance of the other among Muslims and coexistence with non-Muslims. But the thing is to understand it and to implement it – and not [just to] pretend [to do so] – in a way that is compatible with the deep roots of the past and with the demands of the present.

“[However,] what is needed is a perception for reforming ideas, not admonitions, reproof, reactions and word-sparing that deal with the symptom and ignore the disease! There is still enough time to rehabilitate [these ideas], ideologically and practically, and to prevent society from splitting into sects and groups that throng after dignitaries who are enveloped in an aura of immunity [to sin and error] and sanctity, with each group thinking that it has the right to guide the nation and recruit its young people.

“A plant is always like its roots. If we want a good, fruitful plant, it is incumbent upon everyone to care for its roots, its water sources, the spread of its branches, and the fertility of the earth [from which it grows], and to protect it from ideas and viruses that turn its fruit and seeds to poison from which the generations sip and on which the young people grow up; from [these seeds] sprouts a plant that has in it no place for compassion and to whom love and friendship are totally alien.”

“We Remain Trapped In The Dungeons Of The Very Distant Past”; We Should “Rely On The Past As A Foundation” For Building The Present And Future, Not Destroying Them.

On August 31, 2014, Al-Kalbani published another article, “The Chains of the Past,” in which he criticized the Salafism that advocates uncritical reliance on Islam’s past, and called for a rationalistic critical approach. He wrote: “We never stop elevating the past at any cost, so much so that it has taken over our lives and thwarted our management of our present, and I do not know what it will do to our future. We claim that the past is the perception, the deeds, and the outlook of the forefathers [of Islam], to the point where if a catastrophe happens to one of us, he hastens to seek a solution for his catastrophe in a book written hundreds of years ago! And then we shout loudly, ‘Islam is compatible with every time and every place[!]’

“What is very strange is that we remain trapped in the dungeons of the very distant past, chewing over the words of Malik [bin Anas[4]], may the peace of Allah be upon him, ‘The last of this ummah will not be successful unless they follow the same [pattern] that was successful in the hands of its first ones,’ and think that what it means is that we must remain in the first century of the era of the mission [of the Prophet Muhammad], in the same style of life, and in the same patterns and knowledge that he had.

“From these words [of Malik bin Anas] I do not understand that our past [must] control our present and constrain our future; rather, I understand that [the past] is what caused the Prophet’s honorable Companions to change their perception, and brought about their wonderful transition from the caves of darkness and straying into the light of truth… What improved the situation of the first generation [of Islam] was not preserving the heritage of the forefathers and the ideas of the previous generations, but the complete opposite. The first generation [of Islam] abandoned the [pattern] of blind imitation, and with the descent [of Koran 96:1] ‘Recite in the name of your Lord,’ the use of the mind began, after it was neglected for many centuries; the wagon of change began to move and to shift the bitter reality full of oppression, backwardness, and idolatry with lofty and clear rational truths. They [the members of the first generation] opened their eyes to what had [always] been in front of them, but which the fog of imitating what their forefathers did had prevented them from seeing… until the honored Koran arrived and removed this fog and enabled them to see what they had been blind to, and to distinguish what they had not noticed [before].

“In the same spirit, I want the past to free us from the yoke of the backwards present – not drag us towards it. I want our past to make us see reality as it is, and for us to rely on it in the areas of development and culture, and for us to emerge from it with momentum towards the horizons of the future and with an enlightened perception. This [should be done] under the direction of the two revelations [the Koran and the Sunna] – and not by means of the opinions of people who have invested most of their efforts in studying that era [of early Islam].

“We should rely on the past as a foundation from which we head out to the future and to the building of the present; this is better than turning the past into [something] that binds our hands and arouses among us rivalry, conflict, and opinions for which we fight and as a result of which we weaken and splinter. Had we done this [from the outset], we would be sitting on the throne of the pinnacle of culture.

“We must acknowledge that our past contains things that are not compatible with our present. The religious collapse of the West happened only after it became fully aware of the depth of the yawning chasm between the scientific knowledge that serves the culture that the human mind has attained and the religious beliefs and laws set out by the church, which included beliefs that had been distorted or misunderstood, or were not appropriate for every time.

“From among those who call for absolute adherence to the past there has emerged a young generation that defends and fights for opinions and ways that are devoid of the [the correct] Islamic concepts and religious views that can guide the ummah in the right direction. This gang, that has granted itself the right to banish minds, has not grasped the situation of the ummah, and has not managed to adapt to [today’s reality]; therefore its path is to subdue the other or to accuse him of apostasy and of deviating from the right path. [These people] can be found in all walks of life, preventing men of insight from advancing and catching up to the present, and anyone who criticizes them and points out their mistakes is accused of being Khawarij[5] – an accusation tailored for such [critics]. Anyone who talks about women’s rights is deviating from the right path and is loathsome and is lax in religion. Anyone who expresses a wise opinion that has been covered up and ignored because it contradicts their Salafism, is going against the vast majority of the people… and so on…

“What is strange is that these radical extremists who accuse their opponents of heresy and of apostasy acknowledge neither the stagnation of their own perception and ideas nor the worthlessness of their religious law, and thus do not recognize that they have left seeds that are today inflicting suffering and torment on the ummah.”

http://islam.hilmi.eu/senior-saudi-salafi-cleric-isis-is-a-true-product-of-salafism/