Anonymous wrote:ISIS orders all girls to undergo female genital mutilation. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/isis-women-girls-fgm-mosul-un?CMP=fb_gu
Anyone care about them now? Still the US's fault?
Religious factions in Iraq have been fights for hundreds of years. To blame it on the US is crazy.
Anonymous wrote:Now they are blowing up millenia old shines and sites. They are destroying, not only their own culture, but the global culture.
Anonymous wrote:Looks like we may have to nuke the whole region for peace and the survival of civilization.
Anonymous wrote:Looks like we may have to nuke the whole region for peace and the survival of civilization.
Anonymous wrote:With all the horrible news, the persecution of Christians in Iraq is not getting a lot of attention. I really feel for these poor people being forced from their homes, their belongings being taken from them, and having to flee just because of their faith. Really sad.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/21/world/middleeast/concern-and-support-for-iraqi-christians-forced-by-isis-militants-to-flee-mosul.html?_r=0
Anonymous wrote:ISIS orders all girls to undergo female genital mutilation. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/isis-women-girls-fgm-mosul-un?CMP=fb_gu
Anyone care about them now? Still the US's fault?
Religious factions in Iraq have been fights for hundreds of years. To blame it on the US is crazy.
Since the Islamic State captured Mosul last month, it has burned shops selling alcohol, ordered veils placed over the faces of mannequins in store windows, and implemented discriminatory policies that forced the majority of the city's Christians to flee. You'd think that was dramatic enough -- but a number of apparently false stories about the jihadist group's behavior in Iraq's second-largest city are spreading like wildfire through the Western media.
The latest culprit appears to be U.N. official Jacqueline Badcock, who told reporters on Thursday that the Islamic State had issued a fatwa ordering women to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM). The procedure is quite rare in Iraq -- it is far more common in sub-Saharan Africa -- and not typically something that jihadists demand. As Agence France Press reported, instituting FGM in areas under the control of the Islamic State, which was previously known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS, could place 4 million women and girls at risk of undergoing the procedure.
Thankfully, Badcock's claim has been widely debunked by reporters and analysts. NPR's Cairo bureau chief Leila Fadel reported that residents of Mosul, including a doctor and a tribal leader, had not heard of the fatwa. Meanwhile, an alleged Islamic State decree announcing the implementation of FGM was revealed to be a hoax. (The U.N. office in Iraq did not respond to requests for comment on the source of Badcock's claim.)
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Terrorist muslims are killing and persecuting christians and people blame the US? Why not place the blame sqaurely where it belongs on the back of the people causing the terror?
Isis is the direct result of disenfranchising Sunnis in Iraq. We did that.
Anonymous wrote:ISIS orders all girls to undergo female genital mutilation. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/isis-women-girls-fgm-mosul-un?CMP=fb_gu
Anyone care about them now? Still the US's fault?
Religious factions in Iraq have been fights for hundreds of years. To blame it on the US is crazy.