ISIS fatwa reveals 15 rules for female slaves' 'owners' – from banning sons and fathers from sharing the same woman to outlawing having sex with a mother and daughter
- Document found in raid by U.S. special forces targeting ISIS official in Syria
- Lists violations in explicit detail it claims are not permitted by Sharia law
- One says it is 'not permissible to have intercourse until after she has had her menstrual cycle and becomes clean'
- Another says: 'Owner of two sisters is not allowed to have sex with both'
- Fatwa sheds new light on how ISIS is trying to reinterpret centuries-old teachings to justify the sexual slavery of women
ISIS has
issued an extremely detailed ruling on when the 'owners' of female
slaves can have sex with them in a sickening attempt to justify the rape
and torture of its captives.
The
ruling or fatwa has the force of law and appears to go beyond ISIS's
previous known utterances on the subject, a leading Islamic State
scholar said.
It sheds new
light on how the group is trying to reinterpret centuries-old
teachings to sanction the sexual slavery of women in the swaths
of Syria and Iraq it controls.
The fatwa was among a huge trove of documents captured by
U.S. Special Operations Forces during a raid targeting a top ISIS official in Syria in May.
Harrowing:
Shocking footage has emerged which appears to show ISIS gunmen dragging
terrified wives and daughters from their families to make them sex
slaves in an apartment block. A fatwa has been discovered in Syria which
contains extremely detailed rulings on when the 'owners' of female
slaves can have sex with them
Explicit: Fatwa No 64, dated January
29, 2015, and issued by the terror group's Committee of Research and
Fatwas, appears to codify sexual relations between ISIS fighters and
their female captives for the first time, going further than a pamphlet
issued by the group in 2014 on how to treat slaves
Reuters news agency has reviewed
some of the documents, which have not been previously published.
Among the religious rulings are bans on a father and son
having sex with the same female slave; and the owner of a mother
and daughter having sex with both.
Joint owners of a female
captive are similarly enjoined from intercourse because she is
viewed as 'part of a joint ownership.'
The United Nations and human rights groups have accused ISIS of the systematic abduction and rape of thousands
of women and girls as young as 12, especially members of the
Yazidi minority in northern Iraq.
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Many have been given to
fighters as a reward or sold as sex slaves.
Far from trying to conceal the practice, Islamic State has
boasted about it and established a department of 'war spoils' to
manage slavery.
Reuters reported on the existence of the
department on Monday.
In an April report, Human Rights Watch interviewed 20 female
escapees who recounted how Islamic State fighters separated
young women and girls from men and boys and older women.
They
were moved 'in an organized and methodical fashion to various
places in Iraq and Syria.'
Speaking out: 21-year-old Yazidi
woman, Nadia Murad Basee Taha, describes her experience of being an ISIS
sex slave in front of the United Nations Security Council earlier this
month
They were then sold or given as gifts
and repeatedly raped or subjected to sexual violence.
Fatwa No. 64, dated January 29, 2015, and issued by the terror group's Committee of Research and Fatwas, appears to codify
sexual relations between ISIS fighters and their female captives
for the first time, going further than a pamphlet issued by the
group in 2014 on how to treat slaves.
The fatwa starts with a question: 'Some of the brothers have
committed violations in the matter of the treatment of the
female slaves.
'These violations are not permitted by Sharia law
because these rules have not been dealt with in ages. Are there
any warnings pertaining to this matter?'
It then lists 15 injunctions, which in some instances go
into explicit detail.
For example, one says: 'If the owner of a female captive, who has a daughter
suitable for intercourse, has sexual relations with the latter,
he is not permitted to have intercourse with her mother and she
is permanently off limits to him.
'Should he have intercourse
with her mother then he is not permitted to have intercourse
with her daughter and she is to be off limits to him.'
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