Islamic State Group Has Kidnapped and Imprisoned Yazidi Women
Posted by Michelle Moquin on August 9th, 2014
Good morning.
Social Butterfly: That is how I feel. My concern is the women too.
I really don’t give a damn about men. Why can’t the men leave the women out of it, and just go fight the wars they create amongst themselves until they all kill each other off? Why? Because like the men in countries such as Congo, they use women as weapons of war, and to satisfy their sick animalistic behavior.
The Islamic State group is no different. One can only imagine what these captive Yazidi women are having to endure now. Yes, the Yazidi men are not exactly like the Muslim men – the Yazidi faith has borrowed from multiple traditions, including Christianity. But don’t make the mistake, that Yazidi women still don’t endure hardships. In 2007 an honor killing made national headlines when a young 17 year-old Yazidi girl fell in love with a muslim boy and was stoned to death by 8-9 male members of her family (with hundreds to a thousand men, including armed police, watching and doing nothing.), her dead body tied behind a car and dragged through the streets.
Still, for most women whatever lives they had before…whatever they had to face before…probably was nothing compared to what many of their lives look like now that they are in the hands of ISIS.
My heart is heavy. I pray for them too.
From US News:
Iraqi official says 100s of Yazidi women held captive by Islamic State group militants
By SAMEER N. YACOUB, Associated Press
BAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds of women from the Yazidi religious minority have been taken captive by Sunni militants with “vicious plans,” an Iraqi official said Friday, further underscoring the dire plight of Iraq’s minorities at the hands of the Islamic State group.
Kamil Amin, the spokesman for Iraq’s Human Rights Ministry, said hundreds of Yazidi women below the age of 35 are being held in schools in Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul. He said the ministry learned of the captives from their families.
“We think that the terrorists by now consider them slaves and they have vicious plans for them,” Amin told The Associated Press. “We think that these women are going to be used in demeaning ways by those terrorists to satisfy their animalistic urges in a way that contradicts all the human and Islamic values.”
The U.S. has confirmed that the Islamic State group has kidnapped and imprisoned Yazidi women so that they can be sold or married off to extremist fighters, said a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the information came from classified intelligence reports. There was no solid estimate of the number of women victimized, the official said.
Tens of thousands of Yazidis fled when the Islamic State group earlier this month captured the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, near the Syrian border. The Yazidis practice an ancient religion that the Sunni Muslim radicals consider heretical.
The extremist group’s capture of a string of towns and villages in the north has sent minority communities fleeing for their lives. The Islamic state views Yazidis and Shiite Muslims as apostates, and has demanded Christians either convert to Islam or pay a special tax.
About 50,000 Yazidis — half of them children, according to U.N. figures — fled to the mountains outside Sinjar where many of them remain, trapped and running out of food and water. Late Thursday, the U.S. military cargo jets dropped humanitarian aid to the mountains.
Amin’s comments were the first Iraqi government confirmation that some women were being held by the group. On Tuesday, Yazidi lawmaker Vian Dakheel made an emotional plea in parliament to the Iraqi government to save the Yazidi people, saying the “women have been sold in a slavery market.”
President Barack Obama said the humanitarian airdrops were made at the request of the Iraqi government as the Islamic State militant group tightened its grip on northern Iraq. In his remarks late Thursday, he mentioned “chilling reports” of fighters with the group “rounding up families, conducting mass executions, and enslaving Yazidi women.”
The U.N. Security Council issued a statement Friday condemning targeted attacks against Iraq’s minorities, adding that any widespread attacks against civilian populations based on ethnic, religious or political background may be considered a crime against humanity for which those responsible must be held accountable.
Readers: If it weren’t for the sick men all around the world, women wouldn’t be slaves, forced to endure living in such daily horrific conditions and in fear of their lives.
I hate the saying that men are dogs because that is an insult to my favorite four-legged friends, but I do wish, like dogs, we could castrate the mother fuckers. And while we’re at it, take the dick too. Hell, if I thought I could call a genocide….no a “menocide” against men and get away with it, you can bet I would. Why not. There is an unspoken “Femocide” against women on this planet.
I never used to feel this way but after years of writing and highlighting the plight of women and witnessing what women around the world go through every day, as I sit here, so blessed, safe in my home…I am desperate for an answer…desperate for a way to end the abuse. And that sadly, is the only answer that has come from my “I am an eye-for-an-eye kind of girl” attitude.
When men continue to do the sick things they do, they need to suffer the consequences of their hideous acts of violence and hate. Don’t like it? Most men don’t when the tables are turned. In fact, most men are cowards when you take away their guns and knives.
No doubt Anonz has witnessed many a gutless men pleading for their lives. I HOPE he is never kind, and they endure a slow painful death like the lives of the women disgusting men have taken. Oh, how I wish there were a thousand men that embodied Anonz’s bravery, skill, and love for the women of this planet, so that they could annihilate the men as they have done to so many women. Unfortunately, all we have is one Anonz. And thank God we do. But my heart is heavy for him too as there is only so much one can endure when one has seen the atrocities that he has seen.
Anonz: Thank you for being a true Man of mettle and a Hero to so many women. Thank you for your love and courage and commitment. I am so thankful for the man that you are, and so grateful to you for all you do for women. Wherever you are, I HOPE you and your men are safe, and kicking ass big time if you are in the mix of it all. But mostly, I HOPE that you have a respite soon, as no doubt you need it.
Lastly, and once again for you thin-skinned pussy men out there who can’t handle harsh words thrown at you (ouch!)…who are just frothing at the mouth to call me a “man hater,” – I don’t hate men, I hate the things men do. What choice do you give me to feel any other way?
You men have it so easy. Oh, how we women wish it was just harsh words we had to endure everyday instead of harsh hands.
Well…what do you have to say? Blog me.
Nancy: Your nomination of Ann Coulter is noted and accepted.
Peace & Love…”Live, it, Give it.”
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August 9th, 2014 at 11:14 am
Those arab men are animals with no one capable of stopping them.
August 9th, 2014 at 11:16 am
I’m short on time and wifi is very slow…so I’ll just say, this article is sickening and I agree, Just take out all the men who aid, abet or execute atrocities against women. There won’t ever be enough Anonz’s in the world…he’s done his best though it is his path to choose to stay or bring it to a rest. And the truth is, he may not rest upon return until the stress and trauma (PTSD) is treated in some way… I’m send hang out Zen positive and healing juju his way, and yours, too, Mischa. You are both loved.
I’ll be back in wifi area this week, til then …
Luv, Zen Lill
August 9th, 2014 at 11:17 am
Sorry – sending out*
August 9th, 2014 at 3:50 pm
Men accept religion to impart their beliefs on others. They use it to control women and to justify that control. Unfortunately until one powerful country like the US stands up for the defenseless women in other countries, it will never end.
White women in America who follow lock-step in their men’s misogynistic behavior.
August 9th, 2014 at 6:17 pm
Michelle: Maybe you are a bit to stressed, but to make no distinction between misogynistic men, and those who support, emphasize with your tragedies, and do all they can to help women. To suggest that ALL men are lower than dogs, and that menocide of an entire gender will somehow help your cause, well, that is what being a man hater is.
Why don’t you try meditating or whatever it is you do to calm down. Have a drink, take a valium, whatever. Rethink how you have insulted many who support you, your cause and prescribe to your point of view. The only exception you make is for your precious Anonz.
Well, fuck him, if you think that he is the only man on the planet who gives a shit about women (no offense Anonz.). Believe me when I tell you, I like women, but I do not like all the bullshit SOME women do either. Notice I use the word some.
Sure, some men are animals. In fact many. But women could not get by without men any more than men could without women.
C’mon Michelle, I know you don’t mean what you say, not the way you are saying it. If you do, then why should any man support one who believes that all men should be castrated and or killed.
August 10th, 2014 at 7:26 am
Michelle: I know that I misinterpreted what you were saying. I did not convey what I meant to say well either. I did not hear you right. Shame on me.
Sorry,
Al
August 10th, 2014 at 8:00 am
Don’t be too hard on yourself Al. It happens sometimes.
August 10th, 2014 at 8:23 am
I you are wondering how the world came to this situation of murder and chaos. Then just read this little byline from CNN:—–It was one of the most horrific crime sprees of its time. Forty-five years after the Manson family murders, the fascination with Charles Manson won’t die.
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And the reason it “won’t die” is the white boy keeps it before us like a badge of honor. They make a ton of money off it Then they hypocritically claim it is because we are interested. More than 90% of the world and the US have never heard of Manson. But the good ole media continues to remind us that they are famous for their beastly carnage.
August 10th, 2014 at 8:28 am
Al, I knew you would see that Michelle was not blaming all men, only the bad ones and then on the deeds they were doing.
I often read your comments and dream that you were the King of Ireland. I can see your wise decisions changing the way men see and treat women here. We too are the victims of men using religion to force us women to follow arbitrary rules men have made up for women to follow.
Intelligent women here know that the they have NOTHING to do with the wishes of God. But we are forced to obey because we are told we cannot argue with the will of god.
Thank you for showing other men that a true Gentleman is not above admitting when he as made a mistake.
August 10th, 2014 at 8:37 am
Michelle, I read your byline and I fully understood that you were addressing the plight that some men, especially those arab men who use that cult religion to abuse women.
I can not pretend to truly understand the terror women go through when being approached by a man they do not know. If men would stop thinking about themselves and trying to find the times when a woman has done something that hurt a man, they could begin to understand the constant fear being in the presence of an unknown man can be.
We men don’t fear approaching three or more women on a lit or dark street. Can any man reading this say the same for a woman. Before you men who are so quick to accuse women of the same behavior as men, do that think about being in the presence of a bunch of dogs on a street.
If there are two or more, you approach cautiously. That caution increases if the dogs are big or more than two. It is not because you fear all dogs or hate all or any dog, it is because you know that dogs can bite and that bite can be dangerous or fatal.
August 10th, 2014 at 9:24 am
Michelle I tried to get in express my opinion about Al going off on you again. I expected it to happen sooner or later; it just happened sooner. But since I didn’t get in to make my point before he has came in to be the bigger man and apologize, I will hold my remarks to ones that reflect my understanding of what you were saying.
First, I have to admit that I was one of those men that looked first to find the one word, or phrase in an angry statement a woman made towards men to condemn her for including me ( a good man) in her apparent condemnation of “ALL” men.
A year ago my niece was walking home from summer school (10th grade make-up classes) when she accepted a ride from some school mates attending the same class. They were in the catholic school for boys that was near the catholic school for girls she attended.
They took her to one of their parents home who was away on summer vacation and repeatedly raped her. She was initially afraid to tell what happened. The parents had 24/7 security cameras that recorded the boys planning to rape her and the actual rapes, all 7 of them. They had held her captive and invited 4 other boys to come over and rape her.
The parents of one of the rapists were disgusting because they hid the CDs to protect their son. Their daughter pretended to be a party to the lie the parents were telling that my niece was a slut and that she came willingly to their home to participate in sex with 7 boys 4 of whom she did not know.
That brave 12 year old got the tapes, took them to a friend who copied them and sent copies to my niece’s family, the press and the police.
My niece said that she did not reveal the rapes because “men would think that she is a man hater and that she deserved what she got.” I silently cried and resolved at that moment to always try to see where a woman was coming from when she started to rant against men in general.
I am writing this with the hope that it doesn’t take an awful personal situation like I experienced before a male considers the female’s psychological and physical situation that we males put them in (intentionally or not) before we go off defending our sex from her “all” use of that adjective, adverb, or pronoun.
The fact is women have every reason to fear men, especially the men she knows (most women are sexually assaulted by a male she knew and trusted) where 99.99% of men have NO reason to fear a woman they know or one they do not know.
Before you as a man attempt to make the claim that men have the same fear, ask yourself when was the last time you feared being in the presence of any woman regardless of the number or women, or their race, or the time of day, or the place where you would accost them.
So what the fuck are you whining about if she in her anger or fear, uses the term “ALL?”
How the fuck is that more hurtful, or fearful or dangerous to you than her real experience of fear in the presence of men she knows or doesn’t know? And when you claim that women “TOO” harm men, how does that even come close to the more than a 1,000,000 times a day more, that we men commit heinous crimes against women?
I’m no saint, Anonz, or maybe even a gentleman, but I can count. You do the math before you start complaining how good and decent you are as a male and therefore you resent being included in that “all” men statement.
Actually if your were all that “good” you would understand that her “all” is merely a metaphor for the evil men do to women, and you certainly wouldn’t be more concerned about your feelings being hurt in retrospect to her feelings of fear of those evils, and frustration of a male controlled Justice System to protect her from those evils.
August 10th, 2014 at 9:25 am
Ira#10, you fucking suck up. How dare you compare men to dogs. You must be a fag.
August 10th, 2014 at 9:35 am
Al#6, you could have taken Alycedale’s adivce:38.Alycedale Says:
August 4th, 2014 at 8:38 pm
Not necessary, Al. It’s a blog. Anyone can go off on anyone. If you don’t want to be known when blow your stack, use an alias. The next time you feel a super mad coming on and you want to let loose. SCREAM it through an alias. That way you will remain to us the “beautiful” person Linda thinks you are.
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and used an alias and no one would have known who you were. But seeing that you didn’t it was nice to see that you owned up to your mistake and immediately apologized. You get stars in my book for that.
August 10th, 2014 at 9:40 am
Clark#12, what are you another closet queen? I am gay, proud of it and I resent your comparing you misguided bullshit to gays.
The fact is that most men do act like dogs. They will fuck anything that allows them to. They feel more comfortable in packs. They will gang up on and rape a female. When was the last time you heard of a gang of females raping a male? Yeah asshole go ahead cite me A statistic. Name, just one time.
But you can name a ton of times you heard a woman use the the descriptive all. You self centered piece of shit.
August 10th, 2014 at 9:47 am
Clark#12, I used dogs to show that men too can be exposed to the same type of fear a woman experiences every day of her life. The difference is women experience that fear because men deliberately put her in that situation.
Men can change that by changing their behavior towards women and by making a Justice System that responds appropriately when a woman is mistreated by a male.
Look past the representative dog in the analogy and explore the meaning it implies, the real fear experienced by someone with cause because of the tendencies of the object of that fear.
August 10th, 2014 at 9:50 am
So many men are so concerned about their feeling that they can never get past those “alls.” It is the Me, Myself, and I, present in those men that blinds them to anything but their own perspective.
August 10th, 2014 at 9:57 am
How is this not true? ” If it weren’t for the sick men all around the world, women wouldn’t be slaves, forced to endure living in such daily horrific conditions and in fear of their lives.”
Is that situation occurring in a vacuum? Are women enslaving themselves? Are women raping themselves? Are women terrorizing themselves?
If not, then who is the cause of it? Not you Al, but men none the less.
Can any male out there name a similar situation where a number (any number) of men are being enslaved, forced to endure living in such daily horrific conditions and in fear of their lives?
When you can, then write in and post your grievances otherwise you whimpering, bellyaching, ignorant cowards should shut the fuck up.
August 10th, 2014 at 10:00 am
How is this not true? ” If it weren’t for the sick men all around the world, women wouldn’t be slaves, forced to endure living in such daily horrific conditions and in fear of their lives.” – Michelle Moquin
Yes, exactly!
August 10th, 2014 at 10:02 am
How is this not true” – “When men continue to do the sick things they do, they need to suffer the consequences of their hideous acts of violence and hate. Don’t like it? Most men don’t when the tables are turned. In fact, most men are cowards when you take away their guns and knives.” – Michelle Moquin
My candidate for President, or Queen of the Planet Earth.
August 10th, 2014 at 10:05 am
Michelle, you speak so well for women all over the world. If I could leave this Allah shit, I would. Most women in this region would throw this muslim men cult to the pigs, if we could escape with our lives.
August 10th, 2014 at 10:06 am
No time to say much. Thank you Michelle. You say what we dare not to.
August 10th, 2014 at 10:07 am
I am Afghan, but I am Girlz first. Kill them all, Michelle.
August 10th, 2014 at 10:14 am
How indeed is this not true? “Lastly, and once again for you thin-skinned pussy men out there who can’t handle harsh words thrown at you (ouch!)…who are just frothing at the mouth to call me a “man hater,” – I don’t hate men, I hate the things men do. What choice do you give me to feel any other way?
– Michelle Moquin
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Read this men and women BEFORE you put your foot in your mouths and accuse Michelle of being a man-hater. If you have, then be honest and admit you made a mistake like Al did.
Clark, you are a poor excuse for a man. If I were gay, I wouldn’t want you part of my group. Hell as a man in general, I don’t see a place for your type. You were tagged correctly as a person only aware of your own feelings.
August 10th, 2014 at 10:18 am
Michelle, ….men have it so easy. Oh, how we women wish it was just harsh words we had to endure everyday instead of harsh hands.
I have cried because of this almost every day of my 29 years of life. If you could see to making me a GirlZ, I would give my life in your service. Please bring my 4 sisters with me. They can not read but if they could they would love you as I do.
Thank you.
August 10th, 2014 at 10:19 am
Michelle, I am forced to say you have a point and you have made it well if not too well.
August 10th, 2014 at 10:20 am
fuck off and die Henry#25. You said it just right Michelle!
August 10th, 2014 at 10:22 am
It’s ALL there – if you aid, ABET (meaning – go along with, do nothing to prevent, encourage, or assist, etc…and you know what the etc is … It includes pretending you didn’t know what F’d up behavior *& that’s not to mention attitudes* about women that your fellow ‘man’ is out there perpetuating & I won’t use dogs as an analogy bc I love dogs let’s use scorpion or snakes instead…their bites are harsh.deadly and fit the situation way better than our furry 4 legged loved ones) and add in the execution part and yes I totally agree the men who aid/abet/execute can all go away anytime.
And I don’t care if you’ve got a some woman’s done me wrong song to tell, those stories are farrrr fewer and yes there are sociopaths of both sexes but really c’mon – have any women ever kidnapped groups of men and enslaved them? Group rape a bunch of you? Yeah … Didn’t think so …
And now you know why Mischa amongst other women reveres Anonz bc he’s the only one so far to stand up and do the right thing by women and I’m thankful for it. I hope he gets to live out life in peace someday but he may not get that opportunity and he was willing to risk that … What’re most men willing to risk for women? I’ll tell you – not that much.
So dudes. If you want allegiance from your woman or women in general start standing up on behalf of your other half.
I’m off my soapbox now…
Al, I’m very glad you came back quick with that apology I couldn’t read after that yesterday but now my faith in my blogging bro is restored, you make a mistake, you cop to it and apologize.
Luv, Zen Lill
August 10th, 2014 at 10:25 am
Allah will punish you michelle as my father will punish any woman who we discover using our family computer to post to this blasphemous, evil site.
She will be stoned and her fingers and tongue will be hung in our village for all those who defy Allah to see.
August 10th, 2014 at 10:26 am
“ALL” men are not evil Michelle. You are just plain wrong.
August 10th, 2014 at 10:27 am
If there’s still any question read comments above from Marwa, Saaman and Paywand – now, any further freaking questions? Seriously … Get past yourselves and tripping over ego driven appendages. -ZL
August 10th, 2014 at 10:29 am
Jerry”29, did you rush in from your republican “what new laws can we pass to make the lives of women worst.” convention to post that idiotic dribble?
August 10th, 2014 at 10:32 am
Al, I agree with Zen Lill#27. You have shown that a man can make a mistake and own up to it.
August 10th, 2014 at 10:42 am
Where is it written that men get to do to us what you men are doing? Allah said no such thing. What makes you sick men think that Allah would force one woman virgin or not much less 75 to service your vile carnal desires against her will?
The fact that muslim men could even entertain an idea like that says all an intelligent muslim woman needs to know about your despicable cult.
I hope Israel kills you all. You do not care what happens to the women and female children in this war. All you care about is establishing a caliphate that will enable you to keep women slaves, forced to endure living in daily horrific conditions and in fear of their lives.
August 10th, 2014 at 12:35 pm
[…] Ira: Nicely stated. Thank you for speaking out. I can’t imagine anyone could argue with your story. Being a woman, I personally cannot pretend to truly understand the terror women such as Nazy, and other women who endure daily terror in their lives. It is beyond anything I could imagine. And that is what drives me because I know women are living in conditions that are unimaginable. […]