Will many Muslim clerics respond? Maybe wanabee Jihadists can answer this.
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Oct 14, 2014
ISIS Says the Quran Allows Enslaving Women. Will Clerical Leaders Respond?
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A 15-year-old Yazidi girl captured by Islamic State and forcibly married to a militant in Syria speaks to the Associated Press in Maqluba, a hamlet near the Kurdish city of Dahuk, northwest of Baghdad, on Oct. 8. She escaped in early August.
Associated Press
Islamic State’s audacity and effrontery toward women knows no bounds. In an article that appeared Sunday in Dabiq, the group’s English-language online publication, Islamic State militants crossed a last possible boundary of decency by citing the Quran as authority for the barbarism they have been practicing against women. Equally disturbing, Arab leaders and the ulama, the clerical leaders of Islam, have been silent in the face of this effrontery.
In the article, ISIS brags of its right to enslave, marry, sell, and buy the girls and women who fall under its control in conquered territories. They are the “spoils of war,” the group asserts. No apology for barbarity toward women, no hiding of atrocity, is necessary; the Quran allows it.
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Oct 14, 2014
ISIS Says the Quran Allows Enslaving Women. Will Clerical Leaders Respond?
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- HALEH ESFANDIARI
A 15-year-old Yazidi girl captured by Islamic State and forcibly married to a militant in Syria speaks to the Associated Press in Maqluba, a hamlet near the Kurdish city of Dahuk, northwest of Baghdad, on Oct. 8. She escaped in early August.
Associated Press
Islamic State’s audacity and effrontery toward women knows no bounds. In an article that appeared Sunday in Dabiq, the group’s English-language online publication, Islamic State militants crossed a last possible boundary of decency by citing the Quran as authority for the barbarism they have been practicing against women. Equally disturbing, Arab leaders and the ulama, the clerical leaders of Islam, have been silent in the face of this effrontery.
In the article, ISIS brags of its right to enslave, marry, sell, and buy the girls and women who fall under its control in conquered territories. They are the “spoils of war,” the group asserts. No apology for barbarity toward women, no hiding of atrocity, is necessary; the Quran allows it.
Continue reading at:
ISIS Says the Quran Allows Enslaving Women. Will Clerical Leaders Respond - Washington Wire - WSJ